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The next time someone says catcalling is harmless, show them this story 

In the latest example of street harassment turned violent, a San Francisco man was nearly murdered after telling a man to stop harassing, or catcalling, his girlfriend. Local man Ben Schwartz was stabbed at least nine times, almost to death, by the currently-unidentified stranger.

“At first we tried to just ignore it, just kind of walk away and make our way home, cross the street and try to take a different path,” Schwartz told ABC 7. But when the unidentified man kept following the couple, Schwartz prepared himself for a confrontation. “It turned violent very quickly, punches thrown,” he said. “Next thing I know, I kinda had a knife in the back of my neck.”

To raise money for his medical bills, a GoFundMe campaign page has been created.

Now people will take cat calling seriously because when a nice guy stands up to a creep he gets beaten up. No one believes women, even when we’re dying for standing up for ourselves.