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Kirstein Rummery: The key step we must take to bring women equality

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Rummery K (2019) Kirstein Rummery: The key step we must take to bring women equality. The National. 23.06.2019.

Abstract
First paragraph: My 13-year-old daughter and her friend got their first unsolicited dick pic this week. She also had a disagreement with a boy who then slammed her against the wall. It felt like a rite of passage that no girl should have to go through, but all girls do. I did my Outraged Feminist Tiger Mum thing, insisted we report it, gave her the whole spiel about how she doesn¡¯t have to put up with that. My daughter is, of course, a much cooler feminist than me. She¡¯d already reported it and spoken to the boys in person in No Uncertain Terms. As she does taekwondo and can kick a hole in a wall, I am fairly sure neither of them will do it again. But what emerged that was shocking to me was that the dick pic sender ¨C who was also only 13 ¨C did this because he genuinely thought this was how, in the online text-savvy age, you flirted with girls you liked. The violent boy thought it was OK to slam my daughter into a wall because he was ¡°angry¡±.

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equality; feminism;

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https://www.thenational.scot/news/17724195.we-need-to-teach-girls-and-boys-to-become-feminists-to-end-discrimination/

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Publication date23/06/2019
Publication date online23/06/2019
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Professor Kirstein Rummery

Professor Kirstein Rummery

Professor, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

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