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Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. She was the one expelled
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The only new thing here—from a societal standpoint—is a student being expelled for a single incident of fighting (zero tolerance policies).
Bullying and blackmailing people using manipulated images dates back to the invention of the camera.
https://petapixel.com/2025/11/29/113-years-ago-the-us-tried-to-outlaw-fake-photographs/?hl=en-US#%3A%7E%3Atext=Reports+from+the+era+describe%2CPhoto+Pushed+Washington+Too+Far
I remember when Photoshop started to become easily pirated (via AOL, LOL). Around that time, kids we using it to paste girls faces on to other naked women's bodies. I also remember news articles from when Facebook was still new, with people creating fake profiles of people and sharing similarly-manipulated images.
What we need is for kids to be taught (in school) the first rule of porn: IT IS FAKE. Bullying will never cease but at the very least we can teach kids not to react so strongly to fake, transient nonsense about them.
They need to be reminded that when someone does something like generating a deepfake of them, it has no bearing on their life until it is distributed. They need to be taught how to gather evidence and the correct places to report such things.
We don't teach kids such things in school because schools want discretion. Since schools are so obviously failing to NOT abuse their powers of discretion with zero-tolerance policies, perhaps we should take that away.
She was being sexually harassed, not bullied. Bullying is serious, sexual harassment is a crime. Whether the images are real or not is immaterial, it would still be sexual harassment if they were passing around a drawing of a nude stick figure with her face pasted on it.
Allowing children to be sexually harassed by their peers and then expelling them for trying to stop the sexual harassment is insane, and so is the idea that you need to teach them to shut up and take it as a way to deal with it.
Sexual harassment is a crime at work. Outside of that, it's just another form of bullying/harassment.
Assholes will catgall girls as they walk past but that's not illegal. It's no different than shouting explitives at minorities. It's a dick move, but it's not illegal. Not in the US, anyway (because of the First Amendment).
I'd also like to point out that she didn't get expelled for "trying to stop" the bullying. She got expelled for violence (against the bullies). That is why I think it's the zero-tolerance policies that are a huge part of the problem.
If a girl slaps a boy that's harassing her, there's very little actual consequences from that. The boy might be sore for a day or two but he might leave her alone after that. Yet our policies forbid this in the most extreme way possible. It's like being put to death for trampling flowers.
If what the boys did wasn’t illegal why did the sheriff’s office charge them with a crime but not her?
Do you have any idea what Title IX is or how sexual harassment falls under it?
Also, she did try to stop the bullies by reporting it to the adults in charge at the school. They have a duty to act, and they failed her. Stopping them with force was the only option left to her that would actually stop the sexual harassment, and it was a completely reasonable path to take. If more teenage boys got fuckin popped one for sexually harassing their peers maybe they’d think twice about it.
You're suggesting that people can only be sexually harassed at work?
Lol what?