Greetings and Salivations

A 6 second joke about another girl’s appearance. Two teens making out in the hallway between classes. One male student’s sexuality under fire by 400 others. Cat-calls and wolf whistles. This is the school community. Where is the respect?

This is the program for communities that refuse to throw up their hands at pop culture-influenced teen behavior.  Our students currently socialize in the world of “HotorNot.com” and Family Guy where respect and healthy interactions are secondary to superficiality and entertainment. Students are challenged to critically analyze this world and ultimately embrace a solution from within their own community.

Mean Girls Part II

Many of the highest paid women in America employ sexual appeal to earn a living. The sexuality of women is used to sell nearly every product imaginable from video games to men's deodorant. The economics of women’s bodies teach women to compete against other women, rather than to collaborate.   There is only one Barbie, one Paris, and one Miss America.

What are the consequences of this gendered division of focus and aspiration for women?  Why would a woman stay in an abusive relationship? Why would girlfriends call each other "slut" as a term of endearment? Do young women have the ability to change this environment of objectification and inequality? With this COS program, girls learn the answer must be "Yes!"

Fried Frogs: The Delicacies of Manhood
Student and Parent Versions Available

Aggressive, strong, sexually confident, and restrained emotions: boys becoming men. Can strength become violence? How does sexual prowess become sexual aggression? How could gaining male self esteem involve taking away the self esteem of women by turning them into objects?

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