After receiving thousands of aggressive and explicit messages, the actor tackles digital sexual harassment – and its impact on girls as young as 12. You will be enraged
Receiving 37 sexually explicit messages in one morning, including dick pics, would surely ruin anyone’s breakfast. “That did put me off my scrambled eggs,” says Emily Atack, who must have been thankful sausages weren’t the plan that morning.
But none of this is funny. The actor and comic has made Emily Atack: Asking for It? (BBC Two), a documentary about her experience of receiving thousands of sexually aggressive messages and images on social media, and its impact on her. News of the programme makes the front page of the Sun (“TV Emily sex pest hell”), which prompts one of her harassers to get in touch. “I’ll be masturbating while watching your new documentary,” he writes, spectacularly failing to get the point or – far more likely – getting a thrill out of tormenting her.
