Teenange girls should be taught feminism at school to stop the growing trend of giving themselves abusive ‘male’ nicknames such as ‘slut’ and ‘whore’, an expert said yesterday.
Dr Jessica Ringrose, who has studied the social habits of schoolgirls, found they increasingly linked their personal worth to their ability to be sexually attractive.
Sexualised insults were common in chatrooms and social networking websites and young girls even boasted of being good at sex acts.
