By Porpor Leelasestaporn
After being accepted into the Faculty of Law at Chulalongkorn University – one of Thailand’s top institutions – some male students were invited to join a Line chat group exclusively for men.
It started off as a casual conversation. Then, the chatroom mushroomed into a space for men to rate the sexuality of female students based on their profile photos.
These men, as well as those from the pre-law program they were admitted to, are now being raked over the coals for taking a casual view of sexual harassment, and their case is shedding new light on Thailand’s history of misogyny.
“I want to take a part-time job at a student uniform shop so I can measure women students’ body sizes,” wrote one male student in the LAWMEN Line group of 61 members that was exposed online over the weekend by Twitter user @Adoretherealme.
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