Experts on Guangxi University’s "Girls’ Safety Strategy": There are certain gender stereotypes

  On August 31, Guangxi University's student ideological and political education website "Yu Silent" published a "Girls Safety Strategy" that attracted the attention of netizens.

Among them, the suggestion for girls' dressing is "Don't wear exposed clothes and skirts, don't have a low chest, no waist, no back, to prevent temptation", which has aroused heated discussion among netizens.

  Some netizens pointed out that dressing is personal freedom and restricting girls’ dressing to "prevent temptation" is not appropriate.

If it is said that defensiveness is indispensable, then it should be the meaning of the question to educate boys to "prevent being tempted".

If you have to publish the corresponding "Girls Safety Strategy", then the "Boys Safety Strategy" should not be absent.

  On August 31, He Xia, director of the Anti-discrimination Law Research Center and Associate Professor of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, said in an interview with The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) that, on the whole, the “Girls’ Safety Strategy” released by the Yu Silent Platform of Guangxi University "It is formulated from the perspective of protecting the legitimate rights and interests of girls, but there are certain gender stereotypes in individual regulations, which are worthy of further consideration.

  He Xia said that the regulation of girls' clothing, especially the stipulation "do not produce temptation", is prone to misunderstanding and is not conducive to the guidance of public opinion of girls.

He Xia believes that sexual harassment and sexual assault are illegal acts of the offender, and the wrong is the offender and the insecure environment.

  He Xia gave an example and analyzed that in the past, some subways had set up special carriages for women, hoping to prevent the occurrence of sexual harassment.

But isolation does not bring safety and equality. How to protect women who have not been able to squeeze into the limited dedicated carriages?

And it’s not fair to men. Under such a setting, all men have become suspects of "salty pigs", so they must be isolated as a whole.

  At the same time, He Xia believes that clothes are also a way of self-expression, why use temptation to describe girls wearing "strapless, waistless, and backless" clothes?

Why is it not temptation for boys to wear this way?

Does this kind of regulation treat girls as objects of aesthetics to some extent?

In addition, it may deepen a tendency. Once sexual harassment or sexual assault occurs, it will also accuse girls even more, accusing her of her clothing or behavior, so that they will feel that it is their fault to be hurt.

Shame and self-blame make many female victims dare not stand up.

  He Xia pointed out that the campus norms that the school should establish are to require all students to abide by the law, not to harm others, and to create a safe environment, rather than just asking girls to protect themselves.

  Xiong Bingqi, the dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, said that some universities have issued similar safety requirements to remind girls before, which are considered to have strong gender stereotypes.

Xiong Bingqi believes that the school should manage the sexual harassment in the school, and should not conversely accuse the girls of "it was you who dressed this way and caused the harassment."

  Xiong Bingqi said that the school educates students about safety and makes them protect themselves. The starting point is not a problem, but the requirements for girls' dresses are questionable.

  "Schools should not dictate students' normal dress in the name of safety." Xiong Bingqi thought.

  Surging news reporter Yu Yan, intern Yu Lu