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Anti-Street Harassment group Ottawa Hollaback! put up posters to raise awareness for International Anti-Street Harassment Week on Friday night, only to find them defaced Sunday morning.

The graffiti on the posters called the group “feminazis” and referred to women as using men for money. Julie Lalonde, founder of the Ottawa chapter, said the group wasn’t shocked that the posters had been vandalized, but rather by how quickly it had happened.

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“We put them up around 11 p.m. on Friday, and one of our team members was out for a run on Sunday morning and noticed that some of them had already been defaced,” Lalonde said. “Last year the posters were up for two weeks before they were defaced.”

The message the group was trying to share shouldn’t have been seen as controversial, said Lalonde. “The posters said, ‘Women are not outside for your entertainment.’ That shouldn’t be controversial, it’s not edgy.”