OPINION - I founded Everyone's Invited, but there is still a misogyny crisis in our schools
A 14-year-old girl is choked during her first kiss. A 15-year-old boy didn’t stop when she started crying because he thought it was “normal for girls to cry during sex”. Pupils in classrooms are making jokes about “raping their friend’s sisters and mums”, calling girls “sluts and slags”.
This is just some of what we often hear from pupils when we run our are major contributing factors. As philosopher Amia Srinivasan says, “sex is what porn says it is”, showing us that for young people, modelling sexual violence, oppression, dehumanisation and objectification as the norm in sex.
