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Fighting Street Harassment - Tips for parents

As Soraya Chemaly writes in her article "Six Ways for Dads and Moms to Help Daughters with Street Harassment", 

"Fighting against street harassment isn't silly or futile. Men who harass, who are predatory, do it because they can. For girls and women, half of all humans, there is nothing "normal" about it. It takes place in the context of cultural misogyny, disrespect, discrimination, rape and power, keeping public places largely male-dominated and impeding equality in the most base and threatening way possible." 

Click here to read the rest of the article from the Huffington Post.