Andrea Noel was sexually harassed while walking down the street in Mexico City.
CCTV footage shows the American freelance journalist falling to the ground after a man rushed up behind her and tried to pull her underwear off.
The 27-year-old called out the abuse online, sharing a video of the incident on her Twitter account.
Rather than finding sympathy, however, she was bombarded with even more abuse.
Trolls called her a “wh*re”, “feminazi” and vowed they would rape her.
She described the attacks as terrifying, not least because people threatened to kill her, but also because the authorities have not helped her.
“I never thought I’d be threatened with murder for defending my right to walk safely in the street. There have literally been thousands of people telling me they will rape, torture and kill me, and all it takes is one psycho to actually do the deed,” she told the Mail Online.
She says she encountered many forms of abuse since moving to Mexico, just a week earlier a man masturbated while following her home.
“When I got home the man shouted at me that I was a b*tch, and strolled off,” she said.
“I’ve had my chin slashed, my nose broken and my forehead severely scarred by Mexican muggers. That’s why I decided to make an issue of getting my skirt pulled down in the street. As the guy ran off I said to myself, after three years of this harassment, ‘not this time’.”
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That poor woman. What on earth is wrong with these particular men? Both the ones physically threatening her and the trolls on the internet? What in God's name is their problem? Are they that pathetic that no woman will have a bar of them so they lash out at anything with a vagina that makes an appearance on the internet? What sad little lives they must lead, consumed with anger and hatred.
The "Bullies of the World" are in revolt.
Sick of being told they're no longer going to get off lightly for their abuse - they're also taking to the internet to lash out at their victims.
TRUMP has become a champion for some ( that's another conversation ), but those places in the world where women aren't safe to walk the streets, where sexism & misogyny are cultural - are going to ultimately pay for being backward in 2016.
Women will walk away if they can and take their talents & experience with them.
The abuse hurled at women for complaining is driven by frustration at feeling inferior and a brainwashing from childhood that they are self-entitled males.