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daynejesp:mariexvx:fruiteryfruitbats:karadin:riennynn:lacigreen:rneowrails:hatefucking:ofthebrokenheartedangel:Awesome protests erupted in my school today. Our student council planned a “fun” game for valentines day. They handed out paper hearts to every girl at the beginning of the day. Only the girls. If a girl speaks to a guy through the duration of the day, she has to give him her heart. Guys get five raffle tickets for every heart they collect. Girls cannot collect hearts, they only have one to give away, and guys do not have to give away anything. A gay male asked for a heart to give away to participate and was told no.Some girls have taken this as an invitation to say things such as, quoted from twitter, “keeping the whores from talking today haha.” And boasting about “keeping their heart and not being a whore.” This has turned into an excuse to shame each other for talking to guys. And for what? A valentines game?Rather than writing their names on the hearts and giving them away, many girls have written notes of protest on the paper hearts and are wearing them proudly as they associate with whoever they please and refuse to give the heart away.Proud of some of the people in my school today.males are rewarded for collecting female “hearts” and are encouraged to collect as many as they possibly can, but females are only allowed to have one heart to give away, and when they give it away they’re not allowed to play anymorethe correlation of “hearts” to how virginity/sex is treated in society is kind of eerie and definitely sexistThis is a really big deal! My elementary had us do this for Valentine’s Day one year. Girls were given a prize if they kept theirs, boys were given a prize if they got one. The boys would harass us - verbally, getting into our personal space, or pulling our hair - until we told them to stop and then they would get to take the heart. A lot of us were pretty mad about it at the time, and now that I see the implications of it, I’m even angrier.ALL THIS COMMENTARY AND ALSO SOMEONE GIVE THESE KIDS A METALDouble standards, sexism, misogyny, and oh what a great message to send to kids growing up…sigh.I’ve never heard of this silly game before, I hope it doesn’t go elsewhere.If you think about it, this is horrifyingThe fuck? RidiculousI can hardly wrap my head around this???Men get a “treat” for what women are punished for? And in an Elementary school too??? Omg how young do we need to instill that heterosexual relationships are so much more important than non-hetero and for fucks sake healthy friendships??? This goes way beyond sexism and is teaching children that sexually driven relationships are the only way to get validation! WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE!? What a way to not only teach sexism, hetero-normativity, but also pressure students to think that they are worth less if they are not engaging in binary sexual relationships as a teen (and from what I understand children as well!!!!!!!)! -- source link