TikTokers are going viral for exposing \u201cvile\u201d culture of misogyny in schools TikTok: tank_on_e\/.milliecooper\/itsjustmelekYoung, female TikTokers are utilizing their platform to talk about their experiences of misogyny in schools. Student Kirsten Williams exposed a class discussion in a TikTok posted July 15. The male-led conversation centered around non-consensual activity involving women. Many users have condemned the \u201cdisgusting\u201d chat. From Tumblr to TikTok, social media has historically been a safe space for students to vent about school. When Kirsten (@tank_on_e) posted a TikTok exposing this more sinister side of the classroom, her followers identified instantly with the issue. As the \u201conly girl in a tech class,\u201d the TikToker was noticeably sat out of a conversation among her male peers. Instead, she was secretly filming them. Sufficed to say the content of this discussion was pretty graphic. One participant spoke about \u201c(finding) one that doesn\u2019t talk\u201d in regards to sleeping with another woman. As the conversation closed, one of the boys remarked that \u201cevery single one of us in this room is going to hell.\u201d TikTokers have been using their platform to take a stand Shocked followers commented in support of Kirsten, encouraging her to stay safe. \u201cFelt you were in danger while watching this,\u201d said one TikTok user. \u201cNot a single dude is speaking against it,\u201d pointed out another. Other TikTokers responded directly to the video. \u2018TikTok Grandma\u2019 Mary Jo Laupp spoke openly about the \u201cvile, disgusting conversation.\u201d \u201cAsk me again why we don\u2019t come forward,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you could verbalize (that it was wrong)\u201d she addressed to the boys, \u201cthen you should have stopped it!\u201d For better or worse, Kirsten isn\u2019t the first young woman to expose this behavior on TikTok. On April 22, TikToker Millie Cooper (@.milliecooper) revealed a representative for her school made a YouTube video about the school dress code. In this video, the individual warns girls to wear long skirts. \u201cIf your skirts are too short,\u201d she explained, \u201cthat\u2019s going to tempt boys to say silly things.\u201d Millie captioned the video, \u201cmisogynistic school check.\u201d It currently has over 55,000 likes. Student Madelyne Dukes (@madelynedukes) spoke about her own run-ins with a school dress code in a TikTok posted on May 19. Racking up over 600,000 likes, the TikToker exhibited each of the outfits she\u2019d allegedly been \u201cdress-coded\u201d in. One of which was a cropped t-shirt and pants. In June 2021, a ground-breaking list of British schools implicated in a harassment investigation was released by non-profit Everyone\u2019s Invited. Almost 3,000 schools were featured. TikToker @itsjustmelek recorded her reaction to seeing her school on the list in real-time. The video has over 180,000 likes. Kirsten hasn\u2019t yet followed up on the initial video, but viewers are waiting with bated breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikTokers are going viral for exposing \u201cvile\u201d culture of misogyny in schools TikTok: tank_on_e\/.milliecooper\/itsjustmelekYoung, female TikTokers are utilizing their platform to talk about their experiences of misogyny in schools. Student Kirsten Williams exposed a class discussion in a TikTok posted July 15. The male-led conversation centered around non-consensual activity involving women. Many users have condemned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}