Badass Teen Pens Letter Against Focus on the Family Sex Ed Workshop

[PeaceNikki]

Recently, Hwa Chong Institution, a secondary school in Singapore, held a sex ed workshop. Educating teens about sex is great, right? Well, turns out the whole ordeal was sponsored by our good friends, Focus on the Family. And Agatha Tan, a student who attended the workshop titled "It's UNcomplicated" was pretty taken aback by the rather sexist and bigoted approach to her education.

The open letter Tan wrote to her principal (which she then posted to Facebook with accompanying pictures) starts out with a bang. Not even a full paragraph in, she writes:

While sexuality education rarely manages to teach me something that I have not already learnt through past sessions or mainstream media, this booklet was different. From merely glancing through this booklet, I learned a simple yet important lesson: that bigotry is very much alive and it was naïve of me to think I could be safe from it even in school.
Badass Teen Pens Letter Against Focus on the Family Sex Ed Workshop
YES. THIS IS AWESOME. AND IT ONLY GETS BETTER. She mentions some of the material that was distributed, including this lovely graphic attempting to poke fun at the idea of consent. Apparently the facilitators led a discussion about what a girl "really means," comparing it to the alleged directness of guys.

That's right, they're teaching high schoolers that a girl's words are not enough. They teach that girls are always emotional, but that they can't be trusted to know how they feel about sex. LOL WIMMIN, AMIRITE?



Oh Focus on the Family. Go fuck yourself.

More at link: http://jezebel.com/badass-teen-pens-letter-against-focus-on-the-familys-se-1645456705?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

And her full letter here: https://www.facebook.com/agathatheslowtortoise/posts/741950835884958