Originally a comment by Athel Cornish-Bowden on Local misogyny.
Kaspar Zeta-Skeet said there was an “assumption” among some teenagers he taught “that women are things just to be observed”
I fear that that is indeed a common assumption of boys, made much worse by social media.
In France, we are experiencing a particularly nasty series of violent attacks on teenagers by other teenagers — three in three days, not all girls. The first concerned a young girl of 13 in Montpellier. She had been bullied for around 18 months, especially by a somewhat older girl who considered that she wasn’t a proper Muslim because she wore normal clothes and joined in regular school activities. This older girl, or one … Read the rest