By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Teen superhero chases down flasher for two miles

Jodie Schofield

Jodie Schofield (Photo credit: Manchester Evening News)

Real-life girl superhero 16-year-old Jodie Schofield was walking home from school in Manchester, England the other day, when a middle-aged creep exposed himself to her. Enraged — particularly by the fact that the flasher was laughing about it — she took off after him.

“I shouted at him and told him to stop but he was just laughing at me the whole time and I didn’t want him to get away with it,” Schofield explained. She chased him for 2 miles — 30 minutes! — before her shouts attracted the attention of some bystanders who helped detain him until the police arrived.

A striking resemblance, no?

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Maya DusenberyMaya is guessing the memory of this 2-miles chase might make this flasher think twice next time.

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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