This inequality, this pattern of casual intrusion whereby women could be leered at, touched, harassed and abused, was sexism.
In 2001, I watched Lynn Vincent tackle a story no one wanted to touch: clergy abuse of women in Protestant churches.
The Dame Janet Smith Report into Savile's relationship with the BBC included Theroux's testimony that, in 2001, he passed to the executive producer of his programme the information that one of the women who got in touch had been abused by Savile as a 15-year-old, but no further action was taken at the BBC.
Ms Shankar said she had suffered "groping, touching and verbal abuse".
Brad Meyers lost the ball in a heavy tackle and then verbally abused the touch judge for which he was penalised.
Two women have been accused of third degree sexual abuse for touching and 'twerking' against a man at a petrol station in Washington DC.
The dentist, Dr. Neil Mate, was charged with third-degree sexual abuse, forcible touching, second-degree unlawful imprisonment, public lewdness and other counts, according to the Brooklyn district attorney's office.
Each sheds light on the fix the world finds itself in by touching on desolation, waste, abuse of power, injustice, loss and death — of both individuals and cultures — all of which count among the vicissitudes of time.
Tom Ince, who turned down permanent moves to Swansea and Cardiff last summer, before joining Palace on loan during the January transfer window, had his every touch booed and was abused as "daddy's boy".
A former teacher at a private school in Buffalo who pleaded guilty to sexual abuse for touching the breast of a 15-year-old student was ordered deported yesterday from Canada, where he had planned to serve his sentence of three years' probation under an arrangement approved by a Buffalo judge.
