Dozens of senior girls at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School have confronted their administrators and male peers, demanding a school-wide reckoning over toxic masculinity.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase seniors Lee Schwartz, 18, Jane Corcoran, 17 and Nicky Schmidt, 17 were among the girls ranked on a list created by their male classmates earlier this month. By Samantha Schmidt Samantha Schmidt Reporter covering gender and family issues Email Bio Follow March 26 at 7:45 PM Yasmin Behbehani had just walked into her third-period health class when her friend asked her if she had seen the list.
A group of male students in their program created the list more than a year ago, but it resurfaced earlier this month, through text messages and whispers during class. One male classmate, seeing the name of his good friend Nicky Schmidt on the list, told her about it, and within 24 hours, dozens of girls had heard about the list.
“It was the last straw, for us girls, of this ‘boys will be be boys’ culture,” Behbehani said. “We’re the generation that is going to make a change.” About 40 senior girls showed up, packing into an assistant principal’s office as Schmidt read a statement she had written. “I feel it when walking home from school, I get catcalled by a man in a truck who repeatedly asks me to get in his car, and follows me home when I don’t,” said Rose Frank, one of the senior girls on the list, reading from a letter she had prepared. “I feel it when my mother tells me that my third ear piercing will ‘send the wrong message’ in a workplace setting, and that in the future it’s best to let my hair down for job interviews.
While he regrets making the list, he said he was grateful that the girls spoke up. “It’s just a different time and things really do need to change,” he said. “This memory is not going to leave me anytime soon.”
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