Week 2 -
-The Guardian view on sexual harassment in schools: "action is needed"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/the-guardian-view-on-sexual-harassment-in-schools-action-is-needed
More than a fifth of girls aged 7 to 12 have experienced sexual jokes from boys; almost a third of 16- to 18-year-old girls have suffered unwanted sexual touching. Nearly three-quarters of teenagers heard girls denigrated with words such as “slut” or “slag” regularly. Teachers report frequent incidents of girls sending nude pictures to their boyfriends – then finding they have been forwarded to others.
Unveiled is a culture that is damaging not only to girls, but also to boys, who are sometimes victims and often face pressure to “prove their masculinity” by objectifying and baiting their schoolmates.
Almost a quarter of young people were 12 or younger when they first saw porn, and what was previously considered hardcore material has become increasingly mainstream.
-We used to think shyness was refined. That was before social media
This article is focuses on how social media has changed the way people are, in terms of being shy. In Morans book, he described shyness as “a low-intensity, mundane, chronic, nebulous and hard-to-define condition” Throughout his book, he gives examples of people overcoming the feeling of being shy, due to social media.
An example is, The novelist Elizabeth Taylor, whose shyness intensified after a firework accident left scars on her neck, exchanged letters for more than 25 years with the writer Robert Liddell who lived faraway in Athens.“Taylor used letter-writing to cathartically dissect her social embarrassments,” Moran writes, but it may also be true that sending letters to people who knew you only from words on paper allowed the writer to confect an epistolary personality, to exaggerate, distort or plain invent herself and the life around her. Taylor wrote a story of what happens when an expatriate novelist returns to England to discover that the version of village life given by his dedicated correspondent, a shy, single woman, is let down by reality.
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