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Hello, this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4, I'm Tina DeHaili.

Each weekday we take a proper look at what's going on by asking a big question about a big story in the news.

Today,

Should misogyny be a hate crime? It makes young girls feel really intimidated to walk by themselves because they don't feel safe walking around the streets

because of men. That's Martha who's 16 describing something that's probably a universal experience for all girls.

It certainly was for me.

Well, today we're asking whether this kind of behavior should become illegal.

Some politicians have been talking about it, but the country's top police officers who, by the way,

are women say making misogyny hate crime is complicated, especially with murder, knife and gun crimes on the rise.

Only this week, three teenagers and two men have been stabbed to death in London.

But how important is it that crimes against women, however minor, are taken

seriously by the police and what kind of a message does it send if they aren't.

This is my Instagram. I've got 790 followers. This post is me and my friend

before we were going to a Halloween party. We were dressed up and we really liked getting dressed up because we don't

normally dress up that much. It was fun to wear to something different. Before we

go out we like getting dressed up and taking photos.

They used to happen to me in the mornings when I would walk past a group of builders right by the end of my road.

You feel them staring at you or they would like make remarks

to each other or whistle at you or something like that. Every morning and every afternoon walking to school and back. I just ignored them and pretended that I didn't hear. I've got no idea why people do that to be honest.

It makes young girls who are really intimidated to walk by themselves

because they don't feel safe walking around the streets because of men.

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