Peeping Tom mural romanticizes harassment

[citzera]

A 14-year-old student in northern Sweden who complained that her school’s restroom art "romanticized peeping" and was sexist has won a partial victory as the principal agreed to remove it. Astrid Johansson is The Local’s Swede of the Week.

Comments

[ebenista]

Ugh! poor girl in a world of fools :(; they put it down because of the coverage it got they still don't give a damn

[tabaqui]

For fuck's sake. She's got guts - good on her.

[muizenstaartje]

I'm all for provocative art that makes people think in the proper environment where people are forced to think about what it means and ponder the social aspects and influences. In a restroom at a school it only promotes bad behaviour.
I think this is on its own a "funny" picture in a way that good satire can make you laugh at something that is seriously wrong, but I would feel very uncomfortable going to a restroom with this picture in it. I'd like to use a restroom without being reminded how vulnerable I am. Hidden cameras in restrooms are not an urban myth. It only takes one person who thinks it's okay or thinks they can get away with it. These kind of images do not help.

It's good of this young woman to speak up even when those responsible tell her she's overreacting. She's not. She has a valid point and I hope she'll keep on speaking up.

[silver_apples]

I think this is on its own a "funny" picture in a way that good satire can make you laugh at something that is seriously wrong, but I would feel very uncomfortable going to a restroom with this picture in it.

Ditto. This would be amusing on someone's t-shirt, the wall of a "man-cave", maybe the bathroom in someone's private home, but not a public restroom, and certainly not a school. We don't need to teach kids that their curiosity about the other sex trumps other people's privacy, and we certainly don't need to teach boys that it's okay to spy and girls that it's okay to be spied on.

[ohmiya_sg]

Well said.

[keestone]

My thoughts exactly. Context matters for art, and a school restroom is not an appropriate place for this mural.

[eversofar]

good on her. it's disgusting that the school went on a campaign to make her seem like she was imagining things.

[toxic_glory]

seriously.

[seashell_bikini]

I don't want to live on a planet where someone thought this was a good idea in the first place.