‘Principal, Get a Room with Me, Spare the Schoolchildren!’

by Peter Barefoot on Friday, May 31, 2013

From QQ:

“School Principal, Get a Room With Me” Photo Goes Viral on the Internet

May 27, women’s rights activist Ye Haiyan protested with a sign in her hands in front of Hainan Wanning City No.2 Elementary School, where the school’s principal, Chen Moupeng, has been sued for taking 6 elementary school girls to a hotel. Ye Haiyan’s protest has set up a wave of imitators, with quite a few netizens one after another taking photos with signs in their hands and posting them online, asking school principals to come “get a room” with them, and spare the elementary schoolchildren.

Ye Haiyan, online name “流氓燕” [liumang yan, literally "Hooligan Yan"], sociologist, founder of “hc2012.cn’, focuses on sex workers and AIDS, promoting the legalization of sex work in China. Pictures are of Ye Haiyan and her teammates protesting with signs in their hands.

Netizens raised signs written with “School principal, if you want to get a room, come find me, spare spare the primary school students!”, took photos, and posted them online.

Some of the signs say: “Spare those adorable children. If you have the guts, come rape me.”