Everyday sexism

Sarah Allen  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Nov 2016
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Everyday sexism

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Sarah Allen on the rise and rise of feminism

From the front desk of my classroom Joanna argued that society has always been biased against women.

And that literature is only about boy meets girl and pop music only shows women as sex objects. Society is just for men and they only want one thing, she claimed. Her boyfriend, with his heavy black eyeliner, backed her up. My attempt to open the subject up for debate failed. No one would dare to question this newly vocal orthodoxy.

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