A local community group which is primarily ran by members of the Muslim community but is open to everyone and benefits the whole community has started a a weekly Youth Club for teens. Great I thought there isn’t enough stuff for teenagers etc. I have just seen a post promoting it on a community area page on Facebook, and it’s segregated into a boys group and a girls group at different times, with different activities. For the first week the boys is football followed by World Cup fantasy stuff, whereas the girls is a reading group. It just makes me cringe a bit a feel uncomfortable, is such classic stereotypes, there’s loads of girls into football around here and I assume lots of boys who also read. I don’t understand why it needs to segregated into the first place.
Don’t want to drip feed, but this group has had quite a hard time lately from the local stop the boats brigade, but I’ve always stood up for them on comments on social media. They have kept a local community centre open and events they have helped organised have benefited our struggling town centre. But something about this segregated youth group makes me feel uncomfortable.
AIBU - it’s just a youth group, no one has to go and it doesn’t make a difference if it’s segregated
AINBU - there is no need to segregate this and it’s wrong to fall into stereotypes