highschool

sommer

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I had been friends with this boy every since I was around 10. I am now almost 17 (we stopped talking about a year ago) and I can never get what he did to me out of my head. I developed romantic feelings for him and he used that to take advantage of me. I let him use me because I just liked him and thought it was “normal”. He would pressure me to send things and I always did it because I thought that I owed it to him. I would cry almost every night about how uncomfortable and violated I felt by him. I felt used and disgusting and I thought it was my fault the whole time. I still can’t ever get what happened out of my head. I trusted him, he was my best friend and then he sexually harassed me multiple times. He would tell me that I didn’t have to do anything if I wasn’t comfortable and that he didn’t want to be creepy but then at the same time would relentlessly text and bother me about sending stuff. I hate how hes still friends with all my friends. I hate how he can carry on with his life while im still stuck on what he did to me. I hate how much anger I hold within myself because of it. Im sick of being told that not all men are bad because at this point I dont care. I will generalize all men and I do it for my safety. I do it to save the little sanity I have left

sommer

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I had been friends with this boy every since I was around 10. I am now almost 17 (we stopped talking about a year ago) and I can never get what he did to me out of my head. I developed romantic feelings for him and he used that to take advantage of me. I let him use me because I just liked him and thought it was “normal”. He would pressure me to send things and I always did it because I thought that I owed it to him. I would cry almost every night about how uncomfortable and violated I felt by him. I felt used and disgusting and I thought it was my fault the whole time. I still can’t ever get what happened out of my head. I trusted him, he was my best friend and then he sexually harassed me multiple times. He would tell me that I didn’t have to do anything if I wasn’t comfortable and that he didn’t want to be creepy but then at the same time would relentlessly text and bother me about sending stuff. I hate how hes still friends with all my friends. I hate how he can carry on with his life while im still stuck on what he did to me. I hate how much anger I hold within myself because of it. Im sick of being told that not all men are bad because at this point I dont care. I will generalize all men and I do it for my safety. I do it to save the little sanity I have left

jax green-delarosa

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i can’t remember which day this happened the first time. At first I was too scared for anybody to find out ( especially family) but now i do understand that I should share this, because i had reported this to my mom and she not only didnt care, she told me it was my fault!!! This was right after english class that i had with one of my best friends at the time. I had trusted him with almost everything in my life. We had just left english and he was walking with me to our friends and he turned and stopped walking and told me that if i didnt go with him to the bathroom, he would report me for self-harm which would no doubt get me in trouble with my mom who happens to be old fashioned and would punish me for it. I didnt want anybody to find out that i wasnt clean from self-harm so i did what he asked where i was later groped and he went on to tell our entire friend group with pride that since i said yes he was allowed to. I didnt understand that it was not consent if i was scared to say no. The boy who had grabbed me at the time was named [redacted by administrator]. I am no longer afraid to say his name and im definetly okay with reporting what had happened to me! i realized that i cannot get in trouble for “saying yes” because i was scared to say no. We were in the 8th grade and I am now a freshman in highschool and now im 14 years old and nothing has been done about [redacted by administrator] and the other girls he had groped in that same bathroom because people trusted him.

b

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… I’m the first women at my school to be a football player. I’m a model who loves fashion and loves sports. Men are awful my coach is awful. I can stick through all that but what I can’t stick through is when people tell me to brush off the coaches sexist remarks. They tell me to stop being so sensitive. I’ve been told to “man up”. I started football because I liked the sport, I continue football for all the girls to follow and the girls that will interact with these men with small minds who believe we can’t amount to what they can.

le

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When i was 15 years old, my teacher (he is really funny, Always joking) told me to clean up the board. While i was cleaning the board, he was making some jokes and everyone, including me, was laughing. Then he told the class to stop giggling and continue working. But i still had a smile on my face, so he slapped me with a stick on my ass in front of the class and he told me take my Job more serious. Everyone was laughing again, I knew he was “just” joking agian, as usual, but i felt uncomfortable and humiliated.

Aliya

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I’m very young just a freshman in high school and started my period last summer. ive heard oh its natural. But i cant help but feel ashamed that im built this way. These certain guys in a couple of my classes they sexulize me and make me an object talk about how im just good for sex (they dont say that) but all they do is make fun of me and say oh hey how about you tap this certian guys balls.guys get mad or upset when i flaunt my 4.0 or say how i like d&d and and science all i am to people is an object one to be used and thrown away

High School Teacher

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Hi, I am a 18-year-old-French-high school student. My economics teacher is a white sexist patriarchal man. When a girl in my class asks a question or comments on the topic that we’re working on, he says “a woman who is silent is a gift of the Lord” (in French “une femme qui se tait est un don du Ciel”) and whenever a female students says something he doesn’t agree with he says for those who know French “c’est de la mauvaise fois typiquement feminine” which basically means “she has bad faith / she is lying like women do”. Finally, he calls one of my female classmates “la nulle” (which means in French “you suck”) I tried to speak up, both in class and to the principle, who is also a man, but every time he is excused and I am told to stop being “so sensitive” and to lighten up and learn to take his jokes… I can’t take it anymore. Those sexist jokes give legitimacy to this patriarchal society, send the message to the boys in my class that it’s ok to mistreat women while we girls are invited to remain silent and accept the discrimination. Those comments repeat the stereotypes that continue to harm us today. I just wish the school would speak up and sanction this teacher….