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A grown man, in one image posing in full-figure with a view to the private parts and on another is sitting with his penis in hand and sunglasses that hid his eyes.
This cross-border content ended up for a month’s time ago in mp Mona juul’s (K) inbox on the Messenger.
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Mona Juul (K) was almost breakfast wrong in the neck, when she received those pictures from a strange man of Messenger. She has never received sexually harassing messages from women. Private
Since she reported his candidacy for the last general election, have pictures like these not been unfamiliar for the 52-year-old politician. Already during the election campaign she received, for example, images from the young men who masturbated to her valgplakat, she says to Ekstra Bladet.
– I think it is so pathetic. I have not reviewed something and actually have not really responded to it, other than that I have deleted the messages, she says.
Mona Juul (K) has several times experienced receiving dickpics. Here is interviewed she in a different context. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
Mona Juul is not the only politician who experience serious sexual harassment.
A survey by the Institute for human Rights in the context of the general election shows that 21 percent of respondents female candidates (against five per cent of men) have experienced sexual harassment in the form of messages and comments on social media with sexual content. In all, included the participation of 230 candidates in the study.
the Extra Leaf has also described how byrådspolitikerne Annette Rieva (V) and Mette Thiesen (NB) from Hillerød have been involuntarily exposed to pictures of strange men’s genitals and abusive messages on Facebook and Messenger.
the Danish policy – 12. nov. 2019 – at. 11:18 Serious harassment: Politicians get dickpics
Annette Rieva (V) considers, that it is subversive of democracy is that politicians may find themselves in to be harassed.
And then it is a problem that affects her family just as hard as it hits her.
– I must have conversations with my children, as I certainly have no desire for or had dreamed of. ‘Mother is in the news, because she gets pikbilleder’. Such said my ten-year son yesterday, and even though we could make a bit of fun with it, so I think absolutely not, it is fun, she says.
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Examples of messages that Mette Thiesen (NB) has received. Annette Rieva (V) notify messages to facebook, so the messages will be deleted immediately. Mette Thiesen notify the direct threatening messages to the police.
Mona Juul (K) experience, that very many in her entourage have difficulties to understand how she can bear to stand in goal for tilsvininger, harassment and malicious comments on Facebook, and she draws also the border at dickpics.
– It is so obnoxious. You sit there on Sunday morning with a mouth full of poppy seeds, and then you get just nausea, she says.
She seems, however, that there are bigger problems to take care of in the world, and she’s definitely not going to withdraw from the political scene because of the harassing messages.
– It deters me not in any way, just got an, I think. But if there was any that was by, then I would report them, it is the blufærdighedskrænkende, and one should be allowed to fit its work and stand in democracy’s service, without to be harassed, she says.
