In grammar school, young women are groomed to dress a certain way to avoid “creating a distraction to young men.” At my daughter’s grammar school orientation, Principal Ogyny began discussing the dress code and had three young women stand in front of the parents and students as examples of what not to wear to school. No young men. He kept referring to “hormones” and “distracting boys.” One young woman was in a tee and yoga pants, (exactly what almost every mother in the room had on, by the way). I felt my head slowly turn a full 360 degrees with a barrage of choice words about to spew all over that man like a thick, staining pea soup—but I didn’t. I just sat there. Stunned but silent. Not one person objected.”
15-year-old Faith Sobotka explained, “You do not get to sexualize me like that. You do not get to tell me that my body is sacred, because it isn’t. Half the population is female.”
