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Would you ask sexually harassed people, 'What were you wearing?'

For the writer, the one-year-plus of the #MeToo movement was bookended by the question of 'What were you wearing?, which sounds like code for 'you asked for trouble'

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Mar 24, 2019, 05:00 AM

"What were you wearing?"

I was asked that question by a well-meaning person when I wrote a column in The Sunday Times in 2017 about being followed by a stranger.

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