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Kitchener high school students express concerns about safety following the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial(Getty Images) In the aftermath of the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial, a group of high school seniors from Kitchener, Ontario, are voicing what many women across the country are feeling \u2014 that despite the global attention from the #MeToo movement, little has changed when it comes to real-world safety, respect, and justice for young women.<\/p>\n
From the classroom to the workplace, consent remains misunderstood<\/p>\n
The girls, all 12th-graders, shared their daily experiences with harassment \u2014 not in viral headlines, but in grocery stores and bakeries, where older men make predatory remarks and ignore boundaries.Seventeen-year-old Samira Nur explained: \u201cI encounter a lot of creepy men\u2026 I\u2019m at work, and under the expectation that I still have to treat these people with kindness, despite the fact that I\u2019m being, like, fully disrespected.\u201dHer classmate, Anna De Sousa, recounted a chilling annual encounter with an older male customer: \u201cLast year, he was like, \u2018You\u2019re 17 now. Next year, I\u2019ll be back. We\u2019re gonna go out.\u2019 Every time I see his face, my body literally starts shaking.\u201dThese aren\u2019t isolated incidents\u2014they\u2019re part of a wider issue that the girls say their education barely prepared them for. Consent was glossed over in brief lessons, often through awkward metaphors like \u201cthe tea video.\u201d As Samira put it: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t really treated very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
Social media and toxic masculinity fuel the pressure<\/p>\n
The rise of online platforms has only made things worse. With Snapchat and Instagram, harassment is more anonymous, more constant, and more cruel. \u201cHonestly, I think it\u2019s gotten worse,\u201d said Nishtha Tomer. \u201cThey will not say a word to you in real life, but online, it\u2019s the meanest things.\u201dAnd with influencers like Andrew Tate spreading misogynistic messages, girls like Loyd Gebreselassie are noticing a shift in male attitudes: \u201cThis trend is growing with younger men\u2026 All these ideologies they\u2019ve gathered and almost try to force onto women.\u201dThe teens acknowledge #MeToo helped break silence and remove shame. But legal and systemic progress feels distant. \u201cMore so that than actually really solving anything,\u201d said Shantelle Carrion.Also Read: When will the Hockey Canada sexual assault verdict be delivered? Judge sets crucial July 24 date<\/a>Their message is clear: while the headlines may fade, the fight for safer spaces, better education, and deeper understanding of consent must continue\u2014because for many young women, the danger never went away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kitchener high school students express concerns about safety following the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial(Getty Images) In the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[20035,20038,20042,5,2752,4071,20039,20041,20040,20037,20036],"class_list":{"0":"post-111397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-metoo-movement","9":"tag-consent-education","10":"tag-gender-respect","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hockey-canada","13":"tag-hockey-canada-trial","14":"tag-kitchener-ontario","15":"tag-nishtha-tomer","16":"tag-samira","17":"tag-sexual-assault-awareness","18":"tag-teen-girls-harassment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114798062826669136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}