Warning daughters is politics Against sexual violence and rape, education of young men is still called for. While teaching young women how to protect themselves and sounding the alarm about early sexualisation and the risks of substance abuse is seen as discriminatory and re-victimising. Every mother feels she has to do this but is blamed for it
If feminism is 'starting from oneself', it is from me that I want to start, from what I felt after the horrible murder of young Michelle in Primavalle (in the photo) seeing two women holding up signs (professionally made in some professional print shop, not in marker pen on bristol cardboard) where it was peremptorily reiterated that it is not girls who need to be protected, but boys who need to be educated. Mantra that is repeated to us in every case of rape, the appeal to [...]