A teenage girl was walking by a group of guys at Ashmont station recently when one of them called out: “Dusty” – street slang for ugly.
The teen became furious.
“Why are you calling me dusty when you don’t even know me?” she yelled back.
Doesn’t matter why, but boys all over town are disrespecting females for no reason. They act like it’s their right, girls say.
Serena Gorash, 14, has been on the receiving end of this random rudeness, too.
“One time I was walking in the hallway with my friend and this dude out of nowhere says I have fat calves,” says Gorash, who goes to Boston Community Leadership Academy. “I felt disrespected in some sort of way.”
Soleen Balata, 15, from BCLA, had a similar experience.
“I was talking to my friend about a hypothetical question and a boy came in the middle,” Balata says, and made fun of her body. “It made me upset. I think it’s unattractive….It’s a bad quality in a guy.”
Grace Richard, 14, from BCLA, has advice for those targeted by such crudeness.
“Tell them off,” she says, “because it will make you feel better.”
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