A woman has laid bare the horrific trauma that she experienced as a teenager in response to the CDC’s recent report that teen girls are becoming ‘sadder’ – from having nude photos leaked to everyone in her school to a man threatening to ‘rape her’ after she turned down his flirting.
Julia Fomby, 22, from Salt Lake City, Utah, posted a TikTok video detailing the horrifying things that she endured during her teen years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week that a new survey showed that a startlingly-high amount of young women said they had considered taking their own lives.
Her video also came days after Senator John Kennedy claimed that young women are becoming ‘more fragile’ and that social media is ‘re-affirming a culture of victimhood.’
Julia explained that she once had to deal with her naked pictures being spread to almost every guy she knew, and that a stranger said he was going to sexually assault her because she rolled her eyes at him.
A woman has laid bare the horrific trauma that she experienced as a teenager in response to the CDC’s recent report that teen girls are becoming ‘sadder’
Julia Fomby, 22, from Salt Lake City, Utah, said she had nude photos leaked to everyone in her school and that a man once threatening to ‘rape her’ after she turned down his flirting
She also said she was forced to empty a purse that she used to carry tampons in front of all of her classmates, which left her mortified.
‘So this week, the CDC released a study saying that girls are “sadder” than they used to be,’ she began in the TikTok video, which has now been viewed more than 860,000 times.
‘Also, something I saw this week on Twitter was Senator John Kennedy saying that girls are being more “fragile” and re-affirming this idea of, like, victimhood.
‘So here’s a list of things that I experienced as a teenage girl that I think would send any Senator in today’s day and age – any male Senator at the very least – into a coma.’
Julia began by detailing the moment she found out that intimate photos she had taken had been sent to others without her permission.
‘My senior year of high school, somehow nude photos of me got leaked and got spread to everyone in the school – all the guys in my school – at like 7 in the morning and I had to go about my day like that had never happened,’ she recalled.
‘One time I got cat called by a guy while I was walking to my friend’s house after school and I rolled my eyes at him, and then he saw that and proceeded to say, “I’ll come over and rape you.”‘
‘In middle school, I started my period, probably, like, when I was 12 maybe. I started carrying a purse around school to carry my tampons in because we couldn’t carry around our backpacks.
‘I got in trouble one day for carrying a purse and I was forced to empty it in front of all of my peers and stuff … I was forced to embarrass myself in front of everyone.’
Julie posted a TikTok detailing the horrifying things that she endured during her teen years after a survery conducted by the CDC showed a rise in teen girls who have considered suicide
The CDC’s survey was conducted among 17,232 US high school students. Results showed that three in five teen girls – amounting to 57 per cent – said they felt ‘persistently sad or hopeless’
Her video also came days after Senator John Kennedy claimed that young women are becoming ‘more fragile’ and that social media is ‘re-affirming a culture of victimhood’
The Salt Lake City-native also spoke out about the terrible pain that she would experience from her period cramps as a teen, which would sometimes leave her ‘screaming, crying, and throwing up.’
‘I would be up all night literally puking, in and out of the bath trying to alleviate some of the pain. It was probably some of the worst pain I’ve ever experienced in my life,’ she added.
The CDC’s survey was conducted among 17,232 US high school students. Results showed that three in five teen girls – amounting to 57 per cent – said they felt ‘persistently sad or hopeless,’ which is double the amount of teen boys, while one in three teen girls – amounting to 30 per cent – said they have seriously considered attempting suicide.
‘While all teens reported increasing mental health challenges, experiences of violence, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors, girls fared worse than boys across nearly all measures,’ the report said.
The survey also found that one in five women said they had experienced sexual assault within the past year, and that one in 10 had been raped.
Julia said she had to deal with naked pictures being spread around her school, and that a stranger once said he was going to sexually assault her because she rolled her eyes at him
She also said she was once forced to empty a purse that she used to carry tampons in front of all of her classmates, which left her mortified
‘Hre’s a list of things that I experienced as a teenage girl that I think would send any Senator in today’s day and age – any male Senator at the very least – into a coma,’ she said in the clip
‘Our teenage girls are suffering through an overwhelming wave of violence and trauma, and it’s affecting their mental health,’ said Kathleen Ethier, director of the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health during a briefing last Monday.
‘For every 10 teenage girls you know, at least one of them, and probably more, has been raped.’
Last week, Senator Kennedy, of Louisiana, made a series of comments stating that young women are becoming ‘more fragile’ during a hearing about the harmful effects of social media.
‘We’ve talked about a number of problems that are presented by social media – data privacy, sexual exploitation, but also mental health and the impact that I think it’s clearly having on particularly young women in the Gen-Z generation – 10 or 11 to 25 and 26,’ he said.
‘They’re living their lives on social media. They’re not developing interpersonal relationships.
‘It’s making them very fragile. It’s re-affirming this culture of victimhood. They’re not getting ready for the world.’
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