puttingherinhistory: mayticks-art: My 3 yo experienced her first harassment from a boy at preschool,
puttingherinhistory: mayticks-art: My 3 yo experienced her first harassment from a boy at preschool, and we’re all feeling tired.We’re talking to her teacher about it - we’re building her confidence to say No. It’s time to change the way we treat casual harassment. Let’s teach our kids what isn’t appropriate to do to other people, while they are still kids! Love you allMayticks Shit I remember the exact same thing happening to me when I was five, a boy in my kindergarten class would chase all the girls, knock them to the ground, and pin them to the ground while kissing them. It went on the entire school year. No serious intervention happened. It was dismissed as harmless and innocent. It starts so young. Men don’t magically become a threat to women overnight as soon as they turn 18. It starts early. In elementary school I developed breasts early, and the boys would harass me about it until I’d cry. No serious intervention happened. I was a little girl still learning basic multiplication who liked to watch PowerPuff Girls. In Middle School when I was only 11 the boys would grab our butts while we walked down the halls trying to get to class. They were taken aside and talked to, but quickly brushed off whatever the teachers said to them and didn’t change their behavior. I was suspended because one day I snapped and told one of the boys I would kill him if he kept doing it. They never faced suspension for touching us.Boys learn very early what kind of behavior they can get away with. Meanwhile girls are taught fear and submission from an early age. -- source link
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