Toxic Truth About Being A Teen Girl

Haven't read everything yet but one post reminded me of my daughter in primary school.
She started asking to wear shorts under her skirt. Then started wearing shorts under trousers in primary and secondary.
Never takes the jumper off at school.
Why can't girls just live? Without having to think about all this?

Why the hell aren’t those boys punished??? They should be named and shamed. And suspended.

I had my bra strap pulled many times at primary school as I was the first girl in my year to wear one.

I hated my parents for sending me to a girls school. Now I'm bloody glad I didn't have to put up with bullshit behaviour from boys every day.

I had no idea that girls can't wear trousers at some schools. Is this for real?

Just put all the girls in a burka and be done with it. Problem solved.

Kind of makes you understand why some girls might think that being a boy is easier in this awful climate. The uniform went unisex at our local secondary but some girls and parents said that was a limitation on girls who want to wear skirts.

photographs taken of their underwear by a large group of boys
I would like to see these little sods on the sex offenders register. I'd like other things to happen to them too.

Let girls wear trousers, dammit. Can't believe I'm saying that in 2021.

The law about uniform going through Parliament should include a clause that requires schools to accept trousers should a pupil wish to wear them.

The article has made up my mind about continuing my resistance to Snapchat, I get asked daily by my youngest. I was almost persuaded that it is just a messaging platform with fun photo filters.

They could have gone out and bought frosted film and had it done when the complaints were first made easily and for little cost

I love how there's plans potentially to fit frosted glass...

Clearly a few grand is an acceptable price to pay to keep girls in check by refusing to let them wear trousers.

Yet another example of the sexual harassment girls are subject to in school by their male peers. Girls who were forced to wear skirts and not allowed to wear trousers, allegedly had photographs taken of their underwear by a large group of boys who chose to sit next to the see-though glass panelled staircase as the girls went up and down it. This incident happened last week but girls say they have been reporting concerns for years. The response from the school includes the direction that girls should wear shorts under their skirts.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/pupils-told-wear-shorts-under-20169922

I saw the headline but didn't need to read it.

It was bad when I was school and I'm in my mid 30s

My BF developed breasts at a young age. The boys loved to push her against the wall and grope her as hard as they could.

I inadvertently went to a party where I was the only girl in attendance. I was molested.
I told my form tutor (a women) and told it was my fault.

My eldest had a classmates DAD commenting on how grown up she was looking and how she looked better in a skirt in year 6

The next one down was very very tall and the comments started in year 4

It's starts as pre-teens and just worsens 🤬

Yes it is sad but also fantastic that teenagers are now talking about these issues, girls are more aware that they don't have to put up with things, teens are actually aware of feminism and have the language to explore the impact of behaviour etc

One really fun game in our primary school was ‘pulling up the girls dresses to show their knickers’.

This made me so incredibly angry. Poor, poor girls.

What did everyone else feel about the girl with the parents who were promised quick action by the school and the boy’s parents in exchange for not involving the police?

I think she was let down. I would have involved the police immediately. And a solicitor. Would I have been wrong?

I dropped my 17 year old off near her college in Tuesday. She was walking with a friend.
She said a grown man in a van wound down his window and shouted rude comments and hung his head out of the window as he drove past.
On the same day the news of full of stories about women behind harassed in public.

It really saddens me.

Surely the solution for this would be to have an easy way for girls to report this behaviour to a trusted adult at school and for schools to take it extremely seriously. Why aren't schools taking this stuff seriously? Why aren't they reporting it to the police? Many of the stories shared in that article involve rape of a minor or the sharing of sexual images of a minor. These are serious crimes.

Pornography. So harmless. Only an uptight prude could possibly object.

It's so liberating and empowering for women.

Honestly. I thought it was bad enough in schools in the '90s. It was nothing compared to now.

It seems to be something you can't talk about though.

Try and discuss the problem and you get NAMALT. And girls are now taught bounderies are bigoted.

given the recent article stating that 97 percent off women have been sexually harassed, it would seem 30 odd million women keep finding the same small handful responsible...