Has rape culture reached Irish schools? Undoubtedly. Educators, legislators and parents over the water in the UK are scrambling to deal with the fall-out of the Everyone s Invited scandal, in which the alarming level of sexual violence in second- and third-level education has been exposed.
Thirteen thousand first-hand accounts of assaults have now been published - and counting.
It makes for heartbreaking reading. Young women, for it is mostly women, speak of being bullied, pressured, coerced and in some awful cases drugged and/or physically forced into an array of sexually exploitative situations, from sending intimate photos to penetrative sex. It paints a grim, dystopian picture - tech-faciliated sexual violence meets old-fashioned schoolyard savagery. Irish parents who had been looking forward with relish to packing their secondary school-age kids off again after three months at home will now be aware, with dismay, that it s only a matter of time until stories from our schools
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