It is difficult being a teenage girl. Between sexist school policies and the social pressure to look "beautiful," it's no wonder that between 40% and 70% of middle school-aged girls are dissatisfied with their bodies.
Apparently, high school girls can't even make nutritional choices without being shamed. A mom, who uses the username LemonDizzleDisco, created a viral thread on Mumsnet about her daughter being scolded at school for bringing too much food in her lunchbox.
Her daughter's school deploys monitors to check each student's lunchbox when they arrive to class.
The mother wrote that her daughter had been "told off for having too much in her lunch box."
Here's what she brought to school, according to her mom: a peanut butter sandwich with brown bread, a small banana, strawberries, grapes, raisins, avocados, and dried coconut flakes. The lunch monitors also scolded her for packing avocados because they're "unhealthy."
Since LemonDizzleDisco's daughter is vegan, she has to bring food to school that she can eat.
Even if that weren't the case, policing what children eat denies them the agency to make choices about what they eat and LemonDizzleDisco agrees.
"I know lots of secondary school students [who eat] sweets and chocolate etc on the way to school but surely at that age," she wrote. "It's their choice."
It also begins the process of teaching girls to restrict what they eat. In a world where 20 million women have eating disorders, affirming girls is more important than maintaining their figures.
Fuente: www.revelist.com
