Two teenagers were tired of being insulted by boys and men so they created an installation for Melbourne's Hosier Lane.It was one of the countless insults directed at school student Mia Murphy — "girls should be seen and not heard" — which prompted the 15-year-old to call out her haters in a very public art display along Melbourne's Hosier Lane.
"What we're seeing is genuine movements in some parts of the community, but an equal backlash in other parts," Ms Gilmore said.Sick and tired of seeing Mia upset, her mother Lauren Murphy decided to buy her daughter a diary."It took a little while to get it out of her that these things were being said," Ms Murphy said.
"I went through a lot of these things myself, and I would have never thought when I was a mother that my daughter would be hearing and experiencing similar things."Jane Gilmore has called for greater education in classrooms to help combat a growing level of disrespect and bullying among students."These responses to women and girls are very, very clearly driven by those manfluencers and the online weaponisation of vulnerable boys and young men.
Ms Gilmore said it was unfair and unrealistic to expect teachers to conduct these seminars on top of their already packed workloads.