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Dads should “step up” and tell their children that booing and harassing women is not okay, says the father of a girl who participated in a sexual harassment protest this week.
The concerned father’s daughter attends Christchurch Girls High School. About 100 girls marched into the nearby Christchurch boys’ high school on Thursday after a heated exchange between students on social media.
With banners reading “our bodies are not the topic of conversation” and “no more excuses, dismantle the culture of rape,” the students were intercepted by the police and Girls’ High staff and encouraged to return to school.
Earlier in the week, students and teachers came to Boys’ High to find graffiti on the walls and sidewalks that highlighted LGBTQIA + rights, feminism and sexual harassment.
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Things understands that the graffiti was posted by Christchurch Girls’ High students.
On Friday, Boys’ High principal Nic Hill said the school had reported Instagram accounts to Netsafe and sought police and legal advice on how to remove them.
The two state schools are now working to resolve the problem, but a Girls ‘High student, who asked not to be identified, said that although they planned to organize the protest outside of Boys’ High, the message was directed at all men who think that they are boos, harassment. and sexual assault are acceptable.
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Christchurch Girls’ High School students with posters calling for an end to sexual harassment.
“It’s about all the kids in Christchurch,” he said. “We are fed up with the bullying that girls suffer.”
“They called me yesterday walking home from school in my uniform. It was pretty scary.
“I was afraid that they would potentially follow me, that they would park somewhere higher up and try to follow me home.”
On another occasion he was walking through the city with his friends and a man asked to see a part of their bodies.
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Christchurch Girls ‘High School students were on their way to Christchurch Boys’ High School when police arrived.
“It is quite common. In an ideal world, it shouldn’t be happening at all. We don’t want to take this anymore, and we need boys and men to stop this behavior. “
His mother said that dads should teach their children that this behavior is not acceptable.
“Is it time for parents to step up and do something to change this culture and make this a better world for their daughters and granddaughters?”
