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Investigation underway into post ranking female students at Gold Coast school
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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6/1/2024
Investigations into a social media post ranking female students from a South East Queensland secondary school into disturbing sexist categories is underway. WARNING: this story contains offensive language and references to sexual violence.
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A shocking list targeting Gold Coast schoolgirls.
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In a now-deleted post, more than a dozen female students from Foxwell Secondary State College
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have been ranked into disturbing categories.
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Violent terms such as 'abduction material' and 'unrapeable' are just some of the offensive
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classifications used to describe the teenagers.
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"I just don't know how people can come up with these to think that that is okay to make
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up these categories and then put young girls in them.
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It's just horrifying."
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Earlier this month, boys from a Melbourne school were suspended after compiling a very
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similar list.
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The mother of one of the Queensland girls singled out says whoever made the post should
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also face consequences.
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"They can sit behind a computer and post this, but these girls, they're going to be stuck
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with this for the rest of their lives.
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At 16, at such a vulnerable age, to be having to deal with this, it just blows my mind."
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"The comments that I've seen are vile and disgusting and no girl should experience being
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spoken about in that way."
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It's prompted calls to increase education for respectful social media usage in schools.
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"If we don't look at preventing these things, then we're actually at the aftermath and we're
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picking up the devastation."
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The State Department of Education has called the post vile and says any student found responsible
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will be held to account.
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This advocate says disrespect towards women at any level must be called out.
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"For the last 20 years I've worked in the prison system and I've worked with men convicted
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of violent crime and their behaviour went unchecked."
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Queensland Police are also investigating.
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"I'm not going to be in jail for this.
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I'm not going to be in jail for this."
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"I'm not going to be in jail for this."
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"I'm not going to be in jail for this."
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