Another school year another example of everyday sexism

[CatsFantastic]

Bloody everyday sexism again! The worst part is that people don’t even know they are doing it !

Argggghh!

Just read the obligatory daily mail sad face pupil sent home on first day for breaking school uniform rules.
And about 75% of the comments mention her looks, and they are all nice comments - pretty girl, beautiful girl etc. But why?

Why do people feel that to be nice about this girl they need to comment on her looks ?

Would people say the same about a 16 year old boy ? No of course they wouldn’t .

Why can’t we stop valuing women and girls on their decorative value!

Thank you for listening to my rant.

I have nothing to add apart from how bloody annoying it is, once you know it's there you see this shit everywhere.

YANBU

I saw a similar story a few days ago about a boy sent home on day one for breaking uniform rules. Read the comments. Zero mention of the boy's appearance. Plenty to say about his mum's appearance though (in between slagging her off for not having got him the right unform, of course). Its so bloody relentless.

It's also suspiciously noncey behaviour. I know 16's the age of consent but it's still a child, and these presumably are adults commenting on how good a child looks. Quite apart from the sexism of it.

I've just looked t the Daily Mail front page and there are 51stories about women's appearance, many of them with bikini snaps or a lot of cleavage on show. There is one fat-shaming one but the rest are showing toned bodies.

There are two stories about men's appearance, one guy showing how he got ripped abs and another one where it is a couple on show.