Image: Anastasiya Melnychenko. Facebook
I am one of the many women in the former Soviet Union who was cheered when Ukrainian journalist Anastasiya Melnychenko decided to discuss on social media the many instances of sexual harassment and abuse she has suffered since she was a child.
Her postings on Facebook caused a sensation — because no woman in the region had ever talked about sexual trauma in a public forum before.
The postings prompted hundreds of women in Ukraine — and later Russia — to discuss their own experiences as sexual-harassment and -abuse victims.
And they prompted the inevitable backlash, particularly from men …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
