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I believe the complaints against the school dress code is inappropriate.

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There’s only 1 girl in my higher level physics class. Women are simply not being encouraged to pursue STEM education like men are. Society needs to change in how it sees the sciences and gender.

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This padlet is not only restricted to  women sharing their experiences. Men are also welcomed to share any experiences of them either witnessing discrimination or even when they themselves have discriminated against women.

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automatically labelling a girl as a 🤬 because she’s confident ... girls can be internally misogynistic too!!!!!!!

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having to rethink an outfit or rethink a route home at night .. ‘just in case’

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- dress codes in school are more restricting towards girls than boys
- the preconceived idea that girls should not have body hair
- expectations to like nail polish, wear dresses, know how to put on makeup because that way you’ll be most ‘presentable’

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- people assuming that you're bad at a game just because you're a girl
- "don't swear, it's un-ladylike"
- told to be more feminine and softer with my actions
- "stop doing ballet, it makes your thighs too big and then you won't be able to get a boyfriend."

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When guys are quiet in class they’re called ‘dark horses’, yet girls are literally bullied for not speaking in class. Also, the dress code is so harsh for girls - it’s so old fashioned and objectifying

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Gender barriers are so stupid, in reality we are all just people, and dividing us this much simply based on gender incentivises inequal treatment of one gender from the other. Women are expected to act a certain way by society or rules set in place by old conservative bigwigs who think separate treatment based on gender is ok.

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Feeling intimidated to join clubs or subjects that are stereotypically viewed as a ‘male’ subject.

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Only receiving compliments based on appearance.

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In my OWN opinion,I apologise for how we males act towards women,As a male it hurts to see females  cat-called,stared at,Taken advantaged of and many more,In many experiences of my female friends,Most of them Have at least been a victim of sexual interactions,It truly hurts me that no matter how much we try to protect and help as we can before they can ever be taken advantaged of,Many more can be victims while one is being helped,I believe that whether females are sexually harrased under whatever situation,Females always have the rights to fight back and show that it does not make their standards any lower as they always were

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“you can’t go to sleepovers cuz ur a girl”

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“you can’t go to sleepovers cuz ur a girl”

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- my parents

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“those clothes are too revealing, put smth else on”

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“those clothes are too revealing, put smth else on”

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- my family

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Being asked y i dress up like a guy when i wear knee length shorts/ sweatpnats

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the school dress code makes sexualising females worse. Personally sometimes i feel more confident in certain things and there are things i hate wearing because i don’t feel good in them, it’s unfair that because it will distract the boys, i can’t wear it. the school should be teaching boys to stop staring , it’s not “in their nature” it’s the way they are taught and raised. It’s not fair we are being held back from being ourselves because of the inconvenience of boys

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it’s not fair how girls are always sexualised for everything, “oh you play this? oh you like this? that’s hot” You can’t even have an interest without thinking it’s just to get the attention of males. Getting followed around alone is such a scary feeling, you know they tower over you and you don’t have a chance, all those times your mother warned you to be careful at night, you always think this happens in movies until it happens to you and you literally hear their footsteps increasing behind you.

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Growing up as a mixed kid it was hard especially growing up as a sporty kid, i play and aggressive sport, my western family side is really supportive about it but my chinese side thinks that a girl shouldn’t be aggressive and should be gentle
- stared at by a male in the pool
- followed home one time at night when i was wearing a tank top by a male
- been told that i should wear more dresses to be more ladylike
- cat-called in streets of CWB
- stares at uncomfortably when walking past males
- at this point walking past a large part of males by myself scares me

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my chinese side grandparents treated me very differently than my male cousins (regardless of age), they’d just care less in general about me, and has double standards with my studies

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Grandparents will always give less money to my sister than me during Chinese New Years. Oof

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- getting told off for swearing because it’s unladylike
- getting sexual harassed by a male swimming coach
- getting stared at in the gym by old men

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“you _ like a girl”

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being as young as 14 even maybe 13 and worrying so much abt your appearance, trying to change it to feel better abt yourself and worrying about how others look it think of you  and just bc society says we should look a certain way and dress certain  way is honestly pure 🤬 and this can’t be normalised girls should be able to wear what they and do what they want without worrying what other people are going to think.

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"you're pretty good at _ for a girl"

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- being underestimated and discriminated against in sports ~ 'you're a girl so you're not as strong'

- older relatives obsessing over my appearance and saying I had to look like a 'lady' in order to have societal status, while boys were never told this

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Compared to other cities, Hong Kong is considerably a lot safer. Yet as a 16 year old girl, many middle-aged men have made me feel incredibly uncomfortable and violated by simply staring at my chest or my 🤬. Experiences like this are easy to brush off as many people would say to me that it's not like the men had said anything and that it was because of the way I had dressed. The worst part of it is that I have partly blamed myself for it because of what I wore and that I made excuses for these people's mistakes.

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- got annoyed at my brother and because he knew I was on my period, he immediately said 'jeez someone's on their mega period'
^ this is incredibly irritating and frustrating because it invalidates your feelings and brushes it aside. once someone has said this, you no longer feel like you can be mad about something or else you're just convincing them further of what they already thought.

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I feel like as a girl, sometimes my emotions get brushed aside by men and immediately excused as me being in a 'bad mood' or being a 'b*tch' when I'm simply just expressing my feelings in a reasonable manner. If someone is clearly trying to annoy you, and you ask them to stop - that doesn't mean you're in a 'bad mood', you're simply just irritated by their actions. It's really just frustrating that I feel like sometimes my emotions aren't taken seriously or understood in certain situations when I know that if a guy were to to do the same as me, he wouldn't receive the same response.

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The fact that young girls worrying about their weight and appearance is normalised even though it shouldn’t be.

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In Hong Kong, catcalling (in the streets in broad daylight) is not really a thing. At least not from my own experience or from what I’ve heard from other girls. But there was one time where I was literally just standing on the side of the road with my mum right next to me, and this van drives passed me. The guy in the passenger seat of this van pulled down his window right as he passed me, with a smile plastered across his face and shouted something at me then drove off and pulled his window back up. It’s easy to brush it off if you weren’t actually there, but his intentions were clearly not pure or respectable in the slightest sense just from the tone of his voice and the smile on his face. I was shocked first of all. But then I got really annoyed and honestly quite mad. It sucks that catcalling is still accepted in so many societies and that it’s regularly justified by men. Catcalling doesn’t make you feel good. It makes you feel uncomfortable and scared and furious.

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i have had several old men stare at me before in a way that makes you uncomfortable. When you receive such predatory and nuanced stares like that, you just know that what they’re thinking is not pleasant. It makes you uncomfortable and it makes you want to crawl out of your skin. It doesn’t matter what you’re wearing, you will immediately feel uncomfortable about the skin you’re showing - even if it’s minimal. Girls shouldn’t have to think about the uncomfortable stares they might receive before going out in public. And the way in which girls express themselves through their clothing should not be limited by this fear either. But unfortunately, men staring and smiling at you as an underage girl is fairly normalised in our world.

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Last summer while walking to the subway station a young man tried to place his phone underneath my skirt. I was so speechless by the time I tried to call him out for it he ran away. No one surrounding me spoke up or did anything- they just watched.

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Being insecure with what I am wearing in the MTR

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•ppl used to bully me for being fat
•it was behind my back and to my face
•the popular guys wouldnt talk to me
•i cried every day
•one summer i lost weight
•due to fat loss around waist my breast seemed bigger
•the ppl who bullied me started showing interest cos of my breasts
•they realised that i actually have a personality
•guys started wanting to hu with me
•ofc i liked the attention after being bullied for years
•i also started dressing more confident and open
•guys started calling me out for dressing like a 🤬
•my breasts still grew so it wasnt my fault when u could see them in tanktops or like that
•they now are still nice to me but they think i would hu with anyone and that im a 🤬 just because of my body and the way i dress

•i once asked a friend if a dress looked good on me, he said it fits me well so i asked why. his response was "its slutty, it matches you"

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Being sexually harassed at age 11 while getting an eye check up- however I was too scared to tell anyone about it

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Being followed, approached and harassed by a stranger

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Being followed, approached and harassed by a stranger

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When I was 12, I got followed 3 times by the same man. He supposedly worked near the area I use to live around, and he kept approaching me making random excuses to talk to me. He even pulled me by my bag once to stop and talk to me. I felt really uncomfortable and unsafe, but I also didn't know how to bring it up to my parents. He did not stop until we reported him to the police. If something like this happens to you, please speak up. It will make a difference.

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-being body shamed
-cat called and felt unsafe
- judged for everything; the way i dress/how i look.
- 'you shouldn't be so bossy'

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For some reason people think the way a woman dresses identifies whether she is promiscuous or not. This type of thought can make people think that a woman wants something they don't, and can lead to sexual harassment. I do believe that there is a certain level of awareness that must come with the way someone dresses, so there is of course a boundary when it come to what is appropriate and inappropriate.

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We need to make a better effort in abolishing the barriers for females in coding and ICT

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Being followed around mong kok with a friend. The feeling of vulnerability and defenceless was incredible.

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- body shamed since a young age
- getting told that girls can’t do that
- “I dress like a boy”

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During work experience I was only expected to provide support such as giving them drinks and photocopying. I also noticed the number of male managers compared to the female employees.

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There is no patriarchal society get a grip

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Having a 10cm above the knee rule for our school skirts and having paddles which both female and male teachers used to check the length of our skirts. yet the male students had no requirements for their uniform other than the colour and length of their socks. I also felt that teachers coming up to female students and putting a paddle up against their legs was extremely unprofessional and made us feel extremely uncomfortable.

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“Dress appropriately, you’re living in Hong Kong not Europe or America”
- mom

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There is clear favouritism towards male sports teams within schools.

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Guys touching my 🤬 thinking they’re just messing around

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- you're good at sports for a girl
- body shaming
- shaming of body weight
- you act like a man, you should be more ladylike
- you hang out with males instead of females, do you have a problem?
- why do you wear pads?
- why are you always on your period? Why are you always so mad? Are you on your period?

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''you're a pretty fast runner for a girl''

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- teachers really were out to get me..they asked “why are you so stupid?” And “you’re Singaporean right? Why is ur math and Chinese so bad?” As well as “don’t use those math formulas, use mine. It’s faster and easier for u to understand” only for the teacher to fail me
- body shamed since primary school
- gets 98/100 and called stupid, worthless and told to stop trying

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Body shaming
Being called fat
Also just general comments about my body which is nobodies business
Being called ugly
“You can’t do cause your a girl”
One time I was in this camp thing and there was this instructor there and on the first day everything was fine then he started talking to me like a lot then I noticed that he was stalking me socials then I got a message that he wants to be more then friends and wants to know me better then the next day at the camp he started to get close to me and make me feel super uncomfortable I went home and told my parents and they were gonna contact the police but at the end we didn’t

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- body shamed since primary school
- been told to go back to my country and bring the virus back with me
- gets 98/100 and told “why are you so stupid? Ur worthless don’t bother trying” from a teacher
- teachers called me stupid, worthless, fat and ugly
- been doubted by my abilities to play sports due to my physical appearance

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Oh my god you’re such a Karen

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I see a lot of negative comments under posts of girls skating, simply for doing tricks that may be easier. There’s no right way to skate so I think the skating community needs to be a lot more inclusive to girl skaters who may still be progressing

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- body shamed and being called fat
- being told to cross my legs because it’s more ladylike

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Judged by others because I was not good enough
Bodyshamed

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I’m a guy myself and sometimes I don’t really like how some guys I know talk about women like objects, passing them around and stuff.

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“Why are you spending so much money to learn flute, you’re a girl!”

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- body shamed (either too skinny and need to eat more or too fat and need to eat less)
- not allowed to play sports with my brothers because it’s not ladylike and since I am a girl, I could get hurt easily

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“We have to marry and have kids to have a stable life”

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"I like how your a girl but enjoy science"

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being judged based of and assumptions made due to what i wear, insecurities caused by societal unrealistic female beauty standards, pressure to fit into these beauty standards

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At the gym, male personal trainers would target me to pay for their services when I’m pushing heavy weights not just because of my age but because I’m a female and “shouldn’t be lifting heavier weights for my size” and give me alternative methods of reaching my goals...

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Being assumed that because I am a female I should be interested in applying for stereotypical careers, such as being a housewife, nurse, secretary.

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Girls had to learn ribbon dancing as boys went to play football/rugby. I felt they could’ve been more effective with the time they had to teach girls towards like zumba or real dancing, even if they didn’t want to participate in those sports (which should’ve been given as an option)

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feeling afraid to play a 'boy's sport' because i was worried the boys would judge me

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If I obtain a good result in a math competition people say I was pretty good considering I'm a girl.

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Being cat called due to what I was wearing. This made me very insecure to go out late at night and even in less populated placed in HK.

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Hv seen girls not given the chance for sports activities or to compete with boys because apparently they are not as good and some coaches would say it’s not a “girl’s sport”

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Hv seen girls not given the chance for sports activities or to compete with boys because apparently they are not as good and some coaches would say it’s not a “girl’s sport”

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I’ve always been very tall my whole life and people would always tell me how I’m too tall or resemble a more masculine figure - like who are you to comment on my body, something I can’t change!!

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it's a fact that girls hit puberty faster than guys but i know many of us were made fun of when we started showing signs like having pimples, etc
however when guys started to hit puberty, that was just them becoming men

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- body shamed
- compared by appearances
- compared grades

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- "Girls don't game. You're probably bad anyway" + "you GAME?", there is an assumption that girls are terrible at video games purely because it is considered a 'guy thing' to do. But if we do better than them in a game, well they're just "having an off day" right?

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i was expected to not do as good in sports so was put in a lower class