Melbourne student, 15, records classroom response to 'slut-shaming assembly'

“The length of my skirt or dress does not matter”.

A Victorian student has taken a bold stand in a classroom video in which she speaks out against young women being ‘slut-shamed’.

Faith Sobotker, 15, said she was reacting to a special assembly that had just been held in her school.

Kambrya College in Melbourne was recently named on a pornographic website that invited users to send in nude pictures of young women.

Following the revelations, the school held an assembly in which students were told to stop wearing short skirts, make-up, and sending "sexy selfies".

Miss Sobotker told Yahoo7 she wanted to make a statement that she disagreed with the message the school was sending to its students.

“I remember looking over at a group of Year 7s in the assembly whose skirts were already down to their knees, and these poor girls were trying to pull it down even further and they looked so worried,” she said.

“I don’t want them to feel afraid of what flesh is showing. [The school] made us feel that we need to be cautious about how other people perceive us, to make sure they don’t think we are sluts – and it’s those people who are wrong.

“They should not be making such presumptions about young women.”

The video, which was posted live to Facebook on Thursday, has had 25,000 views and a lot of online support.

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In it, Miss Sobotker is surrounded by friends and classmates as she explains why her “self-respect” is not determined by the length of her skirt.

"I am 15 years old. You do not get to sexualise me like that, you do not get to tell me that my body is sacred, because it isn't," she says, to the applause of those around her.

Speaking on Sunday, she said she felt “the school perceived us as being young women lacking in self-respect because of the way we wear our uniform– and that was disappointing to hear”.

“At our age, people are going to make their own decisions, as long as they are not being pressured and do it of their own free will – don’t sexualize them and don’t judge them,” she said.

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