To be concerned about a new fresh hell for female school pupils?

I work in that area and schools don’t have a clue. I object to some of the Ed tech stuff they use as they don’t seem to understand data protection laws. It is very worrying that they don’t see it in the same light as safeguarding. In my professional capacity it is mostly an uphill struggle with staff, particularly staff who are teaching my rather than support staff.

My DC, one DD and one DS in their teens don’t have any images on SM for this very reason and I agree about school SM.

Same here, I was ‘that parent’ for a bit. They’d email when it was the school play to ask what I wanted them to do about photos and make me feel like a dick. I gave up in the end. I feel sorry for the school having to promote themselves constantly but that definitely comes first any there isn’t much thinking about childhood privacy or safeguarding.

You are right. My teens are so careful. Their SM accounts locked right down friends only. Agree shocking schools more cavalier about sharing images online than the savvy teens themselves.

This is why I hate schools using platforms like twitter to share children’s photos.
I had a real fight with my children’s school not to put my children’s photos on there, they really guilt-tripped me and told me how difficult it would be for them to take photos of the other children and made me feel like ‘that parent’.

This has been coming for a while now and there have already been major issues in parts of Spain for example. Every woman is vulnerable to this as some men will use a photo of pretty much any female they know regardless of attraction and mock it up into porn as soon as this tech becomes accessible to them they will do it for sexual purposes and for their amusement. Many of these men and boys won't even understand how much harm they are doing because they don't see women as properly human.

I don't know what the answer is, there is a lot of push back against the accessibility of porn and how it has popularised practices like choking and negatively affected the sex lives of both men and women but nothing gets done about it and it only seems to grow and become more available taking over more of our culture.

I would be very wary of posting images of myself or allowing images of my daughters online. A friend of mine who worked for a while with police unit which tackled child abuse and CP told me that most abusers of children do not access child pornography at all, instead they use images of the children of friends and family from sites like Facebook to construct their fantasies around. I don't post any images of my kids online and don't allow anyone else to. Obviously when they are older it will be up to them and I am hoping things will be better by then but I don't have a ton of hope.

I specifically said girls are not perfect believe
me we have direct experience of
vile 13 year old girls. But it’s not comparable in scale or sexual aggression.

Remember the Warwick university WhatsApp group chat? Those young men got booted out of Warwick appealed and the university were going to let them back until the majority female English department threatened to go on strike.

This is awful. Legislating seems to be the only way out of this if kids (or adults) are accessing tools which they are using for such destructive purposes. It’s way beyond the capacity of schools and the current powers available to police to deal with.

Please direct us to the examples of women and girls abusing men in this way.

This is, of course, awful. Sadly, all young people need to know that their images can now easily be used to make deep fake porn. I am regularly shocked by how many parents share images of their kids on accounts which are essentially public, as well as how few teenagers have their SM appropriately locked down. Please teach your kids to look after the images they have of themselves and their friends

I’m not sure their “privilege” is relevant? This is a sex crime and they should face the same consequences whether their parents have £100 in the bank or £100 million.

Which school? Does it begin with H?

As this is a criminal matter (correctly in my opinion) I don’t think 8 weeks is that much time. The police need time to investigate to make sure they don’t jeopardise any future legal action.

It is terrifying though that this kind of thing can be done so easily now.

I have a DD who is a young teen and sadly that is not my experience. One girl wrote a scathing attack on another outlining what was wrong with her physical looks, her personality and her clothes, I think she also tried to physically harm her, she comes from a lovely MC family - sadly like in my day there are some horrible girls around.

I get what you are saying on the back of this story but when you write, ‘manhood we have now’ are you honestly suggesting that back in the day 10, 20, 30+ years ago men were definitely a cut above, all men were fine specimens of the human race that we wanted to pro create with? It was worse then were more likely to think that you were a possession of theres and really there to accommodate and support their life once you were in a relationship long term with them!

It’s everywhere.

As Germaine Greer said most women have little idea of how much men hate them. It’s sad when you uncover the evidence of this.

This is the result of “Boys will be boys.”

It’s shocking but not surprising I suppose that the ruling class keeps on doing what the ruling class does. Protect little toe rags.

There was a program on radio 4 - there’s a whole industry devoted to helping men make deep fake porn of women they don’t like / think need taking down a peg or two. Then they all share it with each other. So that’s nice 🙄. So sadly find this article entirely credible .

Girls aren’t perfect but Dd was horrified on seeing the boys group chat. How nasty and vile they were about the girls physically horrible names etc. The girls chat is just not like that.

Sorry OP I am not clear.

Is this the Australian case or another one here in the UK?

Christ. These boys need this kn their record. If they think they've got away with it, guess who's coming to a workplace near you?

Or perhaps my judgement is clouded by the fact that a female friend of my DD was told at her private school to drop the complaint against a male pupil because he had a place at a prestigious university (she did not) and because it was her word against his, she wouldn’t be believed because they needed his place for their figures. See also victims (& parents) being told not to damage the schools reputation or rock the boat for the sake of harmony in the class/boarding house. Even threatened by lawyers to shut up. While wealthy parents of miscreants rock up with their own heavy hitting lawyers or their cheque book offering a fat contribution to the school’s latest building project to make the problem go away. I’ve heard this sort of crap often enough over the years to think some schools are definitely not innocent, not that I'd tar them all with the same brush.

Your judgement isn't clouded OP. The police will take time to investigate especially if they're encountering a well funded legal defence. But some schools do seem to have a habit of sweeping this stuff under the carpet and posters suggesting the school needs to distance itself from criminality that occurred within its own walls is interesting don’t you think?

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it did happen, in fact it was very likely to happen once the technology became available. I merely pointed out that publication is not proof.