‘This is what happens to women... walking home with their friends’

Victoria Curtis is a bit of tomboy. She likes to dress in jeans and wears her hair cut short. In other words, as she puts it herself, she is “identifiably gay”.

None of that would normally matter, but at 2am on Sunday on Camden St in Dublin she had an encounter that was anything but normal.

She was walking home with friends when they passed a man who started taunting them and shouting abuse. He started calling her and her friends “feminist feckers” and “faggots” and shouted at them to take their clothes off.