...and it's still shocking. Today, MP for Slough, Fiona Mactaggart, talked about something she's felt unable to discuss for three decades - the time she was horribly abused by a student newspaper. At the time, she was at university, and was helping to organise freedom marches in various cities where there had been rapes and attacks on female students.
The Oxford Uni student paper, The Cherwell, ran a (very unflattering) picture of her with a caption that asked: Would you rape this woman? The implication was clear - that the young woman featured was too ugly to rape. But as well as the massive insult, Fiona also felt it targeted her, at a time when it was already dangerous to be a young woman on the streets of Oxford. The shock and hurt has been too much for Fiona to talk about for years.
Fiona has now shared her thoughts with BBC Radio Berkshire because she feels the abuse of women in the media is still strong, in the light of recent Twitter campaigns and trolls against prominent women.
Have a listen to what she told me.
