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46 WHO STOLE FEMINISM?etc.), children are usually included. Explaining why Minnesota hasadopted strict sexual harassment policies for children as young as five,Sue Sattel, the "sex equity specialist" for the Minnesota Department ofEducation, points out that "serial killers tell interviewers they startedsexually harassing at age 10, and got away with it." 13Nan Stein, a project director at the Wellesley College Center for Researchon Women who specializes in sexual harassment by juveniles, isangry with Montana school officials and teachers for ignoring the "genderedterrorism" in their schoolyards.Friday "Flip-Up Day" is a weekly occurrence at many elementaryschools in Montana. Every Friday, boys chase girls around theschool playgrounds; those girls who have worn skirts are fair game—their skirts will be flipped up, not once, but as many times aspossible by as many boys as can get them. School administrators. . . have seen no reason to intervene or to punish the perpetrators.Their silence has allowed this gendered terrorism on the playgroundto continue. 14Boys who tease girls by flipping up their skirts should be dealt withdecisively and perhaps severely. But only women who view the worldthrough "sex/gender" lenses would see in children's schoolyard rudenessthe making of serial killers and gender terrorists.Should the rudeness even be regarded in sexual terms? The gendermonitors believe it should be and that girls should be made aware of itstrue nature. One of the goals of the sex equity experts is to teach littlegirls to be resentful of boys' pranks by pointing out that what they aredoing is sexual harassment and against the law. Bernice Sandler, a genderrelations specialist at Washington's Center for Women Policy Studies,offers harassment workshops to elementary school children. At one workshop,a little girl told about a classmate who had pushed her down andtickled her. Ms. Sandler made sure to put the boy's act in perspective:"Now, you have to ask, what is this boy doing, throwing girls to theground? This happens to be a sexual offense in New York, and in moststates." 15The presumption of sexual guilt continues as children grow up. Inmore and more public schools and colleges, we find a dynamic group offeminist reformers—harassment officers, women's studies professors, residenthall staff, assorted deans and assistant deans, and sex equity experts—who regard male sexuality with alarm and seek ways to control it. TheRutgers University anthropologist Lionel Tiger has described the contem-