Female students at a Victorian secondary college have hit back after being reportedly warned against wearing short skirts and makeup, and taking “sexy selfies”.
“You can’t tell me what ‘ladylike’ is because we don’t live in the ’50s anymore,” Year Nine student Faith Sobotker said in a recorded message aimed at the teachers of Kambrya College.
“I am looking for equality.”
The warning from teachers had come in the wake of nationwide media coverage of a vile Australian website housing thousands of images of naked girls and women, many from schools across the country, earlier in the week.
Victorian school, Kambrya College. Source: Facebook / Kambrya College.
According to The Age, Kambrya College staff discussed the matter with students in an assembly on Thursday and told the girls that by wearing longer skirts, less makeup and no longer taking nude selfies they would ultimately "protect their integrity".
"No matter how I present myself, I am confident and I am comfortable. My self respect is doing what makes me happy... I am looking to show off my body without being sexualised. I am 15 years old. You do not get to sexualise me like that," Sobotker explained as she looked in the camera.
Being met with cheers by classmates surrounding her, the student continued, "You do not get to tell me that my body is sacred, because it isn't. Half the population is female, all right? We're not sacred. We're not a new discovery. People know that I have legs, I have knees, I have thighs, OK? I'm sick of the sexism."
A screenshot from the photo website.
Top Comments
This girl is absolutely spot on.
She is entitled to make decisions for herself, trouble is, she can't make them for others or tell them how they should react to whatever it is she decides to do, they will make their own minds up as they are also entitled to do; but she can't then lay the blame on anyone else for any consequences of her actions, she owns them.
I wish her good luck, she'll need it.
I love the fact that this new generation of young women are not just standing by and taking this crap. Short skirts, selfies and makeup are not the goddamn issue here! The attitudes that young men have towards young women and the idea that girls are commodities that can be traded, rated and used like some sort of hunting game is!