These girls’ stories of being sexualised underage proves how depressingly normal it is
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‘Every girl has a story like this’.
By Lydia Venn
Growing up as a girl, there is one thing that unites us all – our experiences of sexism at a very young age. Being told our skirts are a distraction for male teachers, being shouted at from a van whilst on a jog or being teased for the size of our boobs. Ask any woman you know and they will relate to at least one of these experiences.
When I reached out to the women in my life, I was inundated with examples of everyday sexism and sexualisation of girls who have stories from as young as 11-years-old. And what’s even worse is many of them were so similar and were things we’d got so used to happening that we’ve accepted them as the normal rite of passage of being a teenage girl.
These experiences are not what we should all have in common and yet they are so prevalent in our lives. The policing of our bodies and clothing comes from our teachers, parents, friends and sometimes even ourselves as a result of internalised misogyny.
The stori...
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