Geraldine Kemper shares her fear of street harassment in her own city on Backbite.

“Yesterday I was cycling on the street,” the presenter, who lives in Amsterdam, begins. “And I made eye contact with a young man. Reason for him to swear at me and throw a beer can at me.” Another man stood up for her, Kemper continues.

In the evening she walked back from a meeting. “And in a street where no one else was walking, a man walked up to me. I already felt it. Sometimes you feel it.”

“The man walks way too close to me,” Kemper writes. “Hangs around and says in a dirty tone ‘Good evening huh.’ I was really scared. Luckily he kept walking.”

This was “an ordinary Tuesday”, writes the presenter. “And no, not every day is like that. But it’s still strange that sometimes I’m so scared in my own city.”

Shortly after her message, Kemper responds to the messages that are posted with her experience. “How many people this happens to,” writes the presenter. “Ridiculous.”

Street harassment is a common problem among young women. Two out of three women between the ages of 12 and 25 have been harassed on the street, according to research by Statistics Netherlands. One in four young women has been chased or chased.