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Greta Thunberg faces the vitriol of men because she’s a 16-year-old girl who isn’t being sexualised
For decades, pop stars, actresses and models have been groomed from pubescence to perform a certain accessible sexuality for an adult audience. The young activist fails to confirm to this expectation, and pays the price
” For the millions who have joined her strike for climate justice, Greta Thunberg is an inspirational 16-year-old who is rightly furious about the global disaster her generation is due to inherit.
- Sophie Wilkinson
- Independent
Yet to some prominent men, she’s “an annoying little brat”, “the maypole around which all the eco loonies now dance”, and a “weird…lass…bless her”.
Leave.EU donor Arron Banks even hinted he’d like her to become the victim of a “freak yachting accident”, while…