Over the past month, we've seen some stories emerge via TikTok in which young women have shown us how they've protected themselves from harassment and in one case, even a potential kidnapping.
But while encounters where a stranger is making people feel unsafe such as these are clearly frightening, it can be even more demoralizing when it's happening at the hands of someone they have to see regularly.
And as one woman explained on TikTok, her frustration with precisely that situation led her to mount what turned out to be an effective strategy against one of her gym's employees.