She is remaining anonymous to avoid death threats – but has spoken to BuzzFeed News about the petition that has sparked a national campaign.
Pick up artist Julien Blanc has made headlines across the world for teaching men to harass, manipulate, and degrade women.
Now, politicians have taken notice and have also called for his visa to be rejected.
Her husband is the only one who knows that she is behind the petition on Change.org, but she told BuzzFeed News that it doesn't matter she is unknown: She is now helping amplify the voices of women and men across the country who are taking a stand against Blanc.
BuzzFeed News asked her about what inspired her to take action.
I think it was on Twitter; only very recently – I'd read about him assaulting/choking girls in Japan, boasting about being able to get away with it through being a white male. I couldn't really take in that this kind of racist, sexist bullshit was not only being considered acceptable, but that he was holding seminars and proposing to teach other men to do this. It was simultaneously massively enraging, and truly heartbreaking. Women everywhere deal constantly with everything from low-grade everyday 'smile love' sexism through to physical assault and are told in turns to 'ignore it' , 'don't overreact', 'are you sure you didn't do something to provoke him'? So I decided I'd had enough.
I was sitting on the sofa with my husband last Saturday, reading Twitter and I starting ranting about him, then realising I could stop being angry and do something more productive. I checked and there wasn't a UK-focused petition – he'd been kicked out of Australia, and Canada was getting its act together, so I thought we should too. It's generated a lot of press, and I'm hoping eventually the powers-that-be will have to take notice.
via on BuzzFeed
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