[Jack_]

Youtube video

Faith Sobotker, a 15-year-old student at Kambrya College, told The Huffington Post that her school required girls from year seven to year 10 to attend an assembly on Aug. 18. According to Sobotker, a vice principal told the students that it wasn’t “ladylike” to wear their skirts “so short,” and that wearing said skirts the way the female students do showed that they had “no self-respect or integrity.”

After the assembly ended, Sobotker shared her thoughts on the assembly with her peers, which her friend caught on camera. In the video, which has been viewed more than 297,000 times on Daily Life’s Facebook, Sobotker perfectly captured the absurdity of shaming girls for the length of their skirts.

“People know that I have legs, I have knees, I have thighs, OK?” she said.

The teen also noted that “we don’t live in the ‘50s anymore” and addressed the damage that can be done to young women by focusing so much on what they wear.

“I’m looking for equality,” she said. “I’m looking for being able to show off my body without being sexualized. I am 15 years old. You do not get to sexualize me like that.”

As Mashable Australia pointed out, Kambrya College is one of 71 Australian schools involved in a “porn ring,” which includes boys sharing nude photos of female students without their permission. The Huffington Post reached out to Kambrya College for comment, but has not heard back to confirm whether this discovery was the motivation behind the assembly.

Whatever the reason for it, Sobotker is “sick of the sexism.” She told HuffPost that what sparked her response to the assembly was the assumption that she and her classmates wore their skirts for the boys, and that wearing an item of clothing a certain way determined their self-respect.

In her speech, she stressed that she doesn’t want these sexist outlooks to affect how girls view their bodies:

“I do not want these girls to be growing up in a society where they need to believe that their body [has] ... to be a certain way, because they can be however they want to be,” she said. “They can be however makes them comfortable and confident.”

Huffington Post

What an articulate young woman

[arista]

"articulate young woman "


Yes Jack
a future reporter
to sit with a Robot helper

[Vicky.]

I have seen this be excused with the following, and I s**t you not.

Schoolgirls shouldn't wear short skirts as it may distract the male teachers.

What kind of *******ed up rubbish is that? If a male teacher is going to be distracted by a teen(or younger) in a short skirt, he shouldn't be a bloody teacher of kids that age.


I don't see what the 'porn ring' stuff has to do with it either. Punish the people doing it, not those who wish to wear a skirt?!

[arista]

Down Under complex young Girl