Instead of trying to censor or prevent girls from expressing themselves sexually online, they need to be themselves on this space. You also wrote about how girls experimenting with sex digitally — be it Skyping or sexting — can actually be a good thing. TF: When we panic about girls’ sexual expression online, it’s rooted in a fear of girls’ sexuality and positions them as victims. And when we talk about girls, we need to be thinking about all girls — we can’t be focused on the white-middle-class-Western-ideal girl. We see in the book that girls are powerful agents for change, and they’ll continue to grow up as powerful women.

Source: thestar September 19, 2016 20:15 UTC