Girl Who Exposed Sexist Group Chat Has Dropped Out Of College In Fear For Her Own Safety

[Kstarnet]

In a disappointing but unsurprising conclusion to the "rape joke" incident involving students from two private colleges in PJ, the female student of whom the "joke" was about has withdrawn herself from the college in fear for her safety

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  Last week, a series of tweets from the female student about a sexist WhatsApp group chat was widely shared on social media after it emerged that the group chat is used by the some male students from another college (note: both colleges share the same campus) to "critique the new batch of female students", one of whom made a rape comment about the female student in question.

   

  She revealed in a Facebook post that while she was called in to discuss the issue with the

   

  management, she ended getting reprimanded for bringing it up on social media and was "intimidated" into deleting the tweets

  

   

   

  "I got called in by BAC and IACT staff the following day, prior to the tweets blowing up. I was grilled on the spot on how it was my fault that things got messy. It was lopsided because the other party was stressing on how WRONG I was for voicing my opinion but never stressed on how wrong the boy was," she wrote.

   

  "The BAC staff didn't want to hear WHY I resorted to Twitter. They already painted a picture and forced me to fit into it. I was intimidated and scared and couldn't voice my true feelings or even argue diplomatically."

   

  It appears that the boy who'd made the inappropriate remark has also made a personal apology. However, she soon found out that no action was taken against him and she began receiving hostile messages from his peers.

   

  "Fast forward to two days ago, the boy who said those nasty things approached me along with a friend of his. He apologised but his friend was also stating that I was wrong as well. That's when I asked him, what he got from the BAC team, he said NOTHING. He didn't get any disciplinary actions towards him. He said the most that he got was a slap from a girl but nothing from BAC. NO counselling, NO temporary suspension, NOTHING. He walks free," she wrote.

   

  "Not only that, because he didn't get anything, he felt like it was okay to tarnish my name and reclaim his to his seniors. I had a phone call from a senior of his asking me what my deal was. I even have a recording of the phone call.

   

  Also, someone approached (one of my close friends) and said if I were to made a police report, someone would pull some strings and make sure the report doesn't go through. This boy has powerful friends and they support him for the wrong reasons."

   

  "Because of him tarnishing my name, my parents felt like it was unfit for me to continue my studies and withdrew me from college in fear for my safety."

   

   

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    Shortly after, BAC released an official statement in regards to the incident, assuring the public that the college has taken "serious disciplinary action" against the boy and even assigned him 100 hours of community service

     

     

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    • However, it is not known what the community service entails, nor if the other boys involved in the group chat will also be investigated in regards to the incident. At the time of writing, the identit(ies) of the boy(s) involved also remain unknown.

       

      Source: http://says.com/my/news/girl-who-tweeted-about-rape-joke-had-to-give-up-scholarship-for-her-own-safety

       

       

      I can't believe this is still happening in 2017. Both of these colleges can cancel each other

     

   

   

 

[katyoun_hana]

What's more scary is that BAC is a known private college for any overseas Law grads to study in order to sit for the CLP not to mention they are known for their law programmes and this case apparently involves their law students so it's not surprising they are very keen to sweep this under rug ASAP.

 

But privates college/uni in Malaysia mostly have students that comes from privileged backgrounds so typical power play here. The girl was smart to put this out on social media as then, the college is forced to address the issue although they aren't exactly doing much, awareness is created. Although i am disappointed with the outcome

[chiirbii]

This is one of the many reasons why it's hard for women to stand up in the first place. A school's duty is to ensure the safety of all their students, not just protect their own reputation.

[Kstarnet]

What's more scary is that BAC is a known private college for any overseas Law grads to study in order to sit for the CLP not to mention they are known for their law programmes and this case apparently involves their law students so it's not surprising they are very keen to sweep this under rug ASAP.

 

But privates college/uni in Malaysia mostly have students that comes from privileged backgrounds so typical power play here. The girl was smart to put this out on social media as then, the college is forced to address the issue although they aren't exactly doing much, awareness is created. Although i am disappointed with the outcome

That's why my cousin told me not to study in private unis and study in her previous college, which was perfect for me since it is partially private so it more students can afford to go to college.

 

That girl was smart indeed. the moment that this issue is inside internet. It is bound to spread like wildfire

[Am@r@]

Every time I read bout rape case esp in Asia, it reminds me of this vid