A Singaporean teenager's rant about a sexist, regressive sex education class she was made to attend has gone global. Agatha Tan posted an open letter to her principal earlier this week, after attending a sex-ed workshop sponsored by the Christian non-profit Focus on the Family (FoTF). The booklet handed out by the group refers to girls as "gals" and contains generalisations about them like "Gals need to be loved", "can be emotional", "want security", "[want] you to listen to her problems", "[want] to look attractive".
The sex-ed facilitators also spoke on topics like "what girls mean when they say yes or no", reinforcing harmful stereotypes about women not knowing their own minds, while saying that "guys" are "direct" and "always mean what they say".
Tan also accused FoTF of shutting down a question on alternate sexualities, when a student asked why the organisation's material did not include language targeted at LGBT couples. FoTF is rather red in the face right now.
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