How to avoid or combat street harassment

Written by Arianne Alvero

Photo from Stop Street Harassment

What does everyone can do in order to avoid or to combat street harassment?. There is a lot of ways to do, in order to prevent it to happen. Everyone needs to be aware of the environment or the surroundings you are in to avoid different types of street harassment that can encounter or experience. There is no assurance if everyone are really safe from the harasser, specially a woman. Everyone should present themselves naturally and strong to anyone because there is no guarantee that the responds you may know to yourself is enough to protect you from strangers or harasser. We all know that there is no overall greatest way of respond to the harasser in every circumstances whenever you are a man or a woman.

Even though, only the harassed person is the only one who knows what is the best way for a person to respond in any given incident, everyone can make an action to help and to fight to feel both safe and empowered. The more they are knowledgeable about the options for responding is better they can be at making that decision and help other victim to voice their experience and encourage each person of not letting strangers put their guard down and be a victim of others.