Emotional radio host Bronte Langbroek reads a powerful open to ‘the man who harassed me’

Radio host Bronte Langbroek has directly addressed a man who sexually harassed her in a powerful open letter.

The 27-year-old, who also happens to be the niece of media personality Kate Langbroek, read the letter aloud on Hit Riverina’s breakfast show on Friday.  

‘To the man who harassed me, you might not know who I am and I might not ever see you again, but I know that you saw the distress on my face when you chose to approach,’ she began.

Becoming emotional as she read the articulate letter, Bronte said it was important to her that the man ‘hear the hurt in my voice and know what you’ve done’.  

‘Your actions and your decisions have shaken me to the point of tears for the past couple of days, and I don’t know why you chose me,’ she continued. 

Bronte said she was simply ‘minding my own business, walking in a place that always felt safe, while the sun was still up’. 

She said the fact that women need to be taught how to not put themselves in any potential danger is a problem in itself.  

‘I tried to ignore the things that I could hear you saying to get a rise out of me. I tried to look away, even though I could see you trying to get my attention, and I changed my direction to try and get away from you,’ she added.

But she said the man continued to follow her into a supermarket, where she had gone to do her grocery shopping.  

‘[You] continued to bait me, and then smashed on a partition that’s the only thing that separated us so loudly that it caused me to gasp and jump, and drew unwanted attention from those around me,’ she continued. 

‘You stole the right that I have to feel safe as a woman doing something as ordinary as grocery shopping.’

Bronte said the man eventually walked away, but she felt ‘intimidated to the point of breaking down’. 

‘You laughed in the face of a woman who felt unsafe leaving the store for fear that you were waiting outside,’ she said. 

‘And you didn’t see the tears rolling down my face as I had to call my mum so I could walk home and feel like I had someone there with me.’

Between tears, Bronte said she was ‘done with condoning this behaviour’. 

‘I’m tired of the rhetoric that boys will be boys, and I’m finished with finding ways to disappear when I’m not the problem,’ she added.  

She finished by asking the man to change his behaviour ‘for my sake and the women across the Riverina and across the world’. 

‘You’re part of the problem, and you have no right to make me or any other woman feel that way – unsafe and exposed,’ she concluded, before signing off, ‘a fed up woman’.