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Wearing a mask in public makes me feel safer as a woman

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Every woman I know has a story. Sexual harassment, and the threat of it, are daily features of most women’s lives. Whether that’s being unabashedly stared at for the entire duration of a Tube journey, an unwanted and unwarranted hand groping your body on a crammed rush-hour train, or being followed home. This is not to mention the jeers, the laughs, the comments. And the assaults that leave scars that are difficult to erase.