Why Australian women are saying 'enough is enough'

It needs to be enough everywhere.

When women are murdered simply walking home...

When women are murdered simply being at work...

When women are harassed just minding their own business...

The list goes on. It's not just the sexual assaults and harassment. It's that women can't just walk somewhere without some males stopping them to "hit on" them or ask them out. It's males who just won't take no for an answer and think it's some weird game.

Then it's never blaming the perpetrators. It's always blaming the victim. With Sarah Everard - she was simply walking home from a friend's and got kidnapped and murdered by a cop. What's the response? Let's put MORE cops out on patrol and in plainclothes.

The women murdered in Atlanta, most Asian, the response is "he just had a bad day and this is what happened" and blaming it on a "sex addiction." And ignoring that the majority of women were Asian.

Women should be able to walk down the street without being catcalled or harassed by incels who refuse to take no. Women should be able to walk home from a friend's house at any hour of the day and not worry if they'll be kidnapped and murdered. Women should be able to walk alone and not have to carry their keys as a weapon or doubling back on a route or wondering if any male they walk by is the one that might attack them.

Then it doesn't help when you have people say "iT's NoT aLl MeN!" Yeah - we know it's not "all" men but we don't know which men. That's the issue. Then it doesn't help when even some women go "Don't be rude when a guy hits on you." I don't have to give anyone respect who isn't respecting me. If a guy hits on me and I tell him I'm not interested, he should just walk away. Not keep harassing.

Until we stop making excuses for perpetrators and asking "Why are they doing this?" This keeps happening everywhere.