"Mother of girl involved in 'kissing' discipline speaks out"

[KitSileya]

344. It was kissing, and the boy's mother referred to them as boyfriend and girlfriend.

What do you think the boy would have learned if it hadn't been addressed, except for the fact that if he considered a girl his girlfriend, he could kiss her whenever, without consent?

The school's regulation states that sexual harassment is repeated unwanted touching. His behavior fits the label. They labelled it as such in their files, which are confidential. He also has notes about other unwanted behavior, so I suspect that when they wrote this up, they also wanted to distinguish between the two different behaviors. When the mother of the boy took it to the media, what choice did they but to alter their records? It was the only way to mitigate what the mother did, plastering the media and the internet with her son's name and sexual harassment.

As for rape and rape culture, as I said, at 6 years old, this boy thought it was ok to repeatedly kiss a girl who did not consent. His mother was encouraging him to do so, labelled the girl his girlfriend when she wasn't, said that she wanted it. You seem to think that only rape counts, but what the fundamental issue here is, is the belief that the girl doesn't have a say in who kisses her. That she should just accept it, especially because the boy professed a crush on her. What do you think boys who are encouraged to disregard a girl's bodily autonomy at 6 do when they turn 16 and do have sexual thoughts? If they don't learn any different, we end up with a society, a culture, where 35% of men say they would rape someone if they could be sure they wouldn't be caught, and where one in 6 women are sexually assaulted at least once in their lifetimes.