Imagining people visualise how someone violated the privacy of my body, I’ll pray I shrink into a paperweight, unnoticeable and long-forgotten. I’ll continue to withdraw myself from social gatherings because, well, who will ever believe me? And when there is a family occasion, I’ll say I have work just so that I can avoid his eyes. However, it also saddens me to think that we have to rely on the huge number of #MeToo statuses to understand the gravity of the problem. If you see women not posting #MeToo, chances are they’ve still been harassed, but feel silenced by a society that tends to punish her but not the harasser.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 17, 2017 13:07 UTC