Have you ever been to a festival where people have unlimited access to alcohol, and drugs -and there are 40,000+ people there? Have you ever walked past large groups of men on your own shouting crap at you and thought : you know what's a good idea? Let me get my phone out record them whilst I'm vulnerable surrounded by no one I know and hopefully it'll stop? Yeah sounds like real bull :-)
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You at least called security and reported these people to authorities so they didn't make someone else feel uncomfortable right?
I mean monetizing your plight on steemit is one thing, but a news report about these guys being arrested at a festival would bring a lot more credibility to my mind.
So my question is where was security when this happened? What action was taken to remedy the situation? Have you documented it so you can bring a complaint to the venue? What are you doing to prevent other young girls from feeling threatened or victimized in the future?
I've been to tons of festivals, I've seen this behavior. it happens any time people get together and do large quantities of drugs and booze. This behavior is hardly limited to men. Women do it too, and from my perspective they do it as much or more often than men, but men are expected to just enjoy it or blow it off.
About 10 years ago I was at a festival where one guy in a group of five cat called someone I was with. I walked over and I gave the man some high quality customized dental work. His buddies jumped in, it didn't slow me down. Booze will make a man ten foot tall and bullet proof. Either way, we were both tazed by security and arrested, we both made the news for sitting out the rest of the festival in a jail cell. This wasn't a big festival and it wasn't a big town, it still made the statewide news.
You and any person with you ought to be doing the same, confront the situation and defuse it however you can.
If you can't contact security and you don't feel safe, especially if drugs and alcohol are involved. My advice is don't go or at least get the hell out of there. Tell the venue owner the problem and you will get your money back and if not, you sue.
Some people are going to say this is blaming the victim. It's not, it's having courage to stand for something and courage will preventing you from becoming a victim in the first place.
Same advice I'd give to my own daughter.
Yeah sounds like more bull, can you link to some articles that talk about this? If it was 40k people and it was non stop everywhere and such a problem, more then just you would be posting on it right? what was the festival called?
Here are some articles I found just by typing in "reading festival"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11822420/Bestival-UK-music-festivals-have-a-rape-problem-that-needs-action-now.html
http://thetab.com/2016/05/19/need-talk-sexual-assault-festivals-90401
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/theres-a-rape-epidemic-at-music-festivals-and-nobody-seems-to-care
ok checked out first link and its about all of the festivles and the different rapes that has happened. most say one or 2 girls at max per festival had something happen, that not the amount you were saying. still horrible. ima check outthe second link now, ok second article
same thing, not about one specific festival and its about how 2 people got raped last year at a concert. this post isn't about a specific concert earthier.
on to the third article,
this article starts out talking about something that happened in 2013 and then goes back talking about concerts all the way back to 2008. all of them are single cases of rape and are not this concert you say you just went to with 40k people.
so we are back to the begingin, what was the name of the concert? if it was really 40k people and the abuse was that prevelant shouldn't there be other reports of it happening? you provided me links to articles about rape at concerts as a whole, not this concert your claiming to have gone to and suffered from. can you provide the name of the concert in your story and a link to what happened at that fesitvle? if there were 40k people and it was such a problem you cant be the only one talking about it online. unless its all a lie and your crying wolf to get attention?
not trying to be a dick but you have provided nothing to back up our story. just articles about how rapes at concerts have happened.
also just woke up so sry bout the speling and grammer.
hope to hear back from you with actual links to the concert your claiming this happened, the name of the concert, and proof that others witnessed what your claiming was such a huge problem.