Aoife Moore: My sexual harassment story is not an outlier

The culture of silence or worse "calm down it's only a joke" means that women do not feel validated to come forward. File picture: PA

It's been just over a week since academic Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin came forward with her experience of harassment at University College Dublin in The Irish Time. 

The frightening and disturbing experiences she detailed would have no doubt shocked many men, but for a lot of women, we saw ourselves in Aoibhinn.