On Friday, the news broke about a suspected revenge porn group chat in UCD. The group supposedly contained over 200 male students sharing images and ratings of girls they had been sexually involved with.  The news of the group promoted this incredible reaction from our bro Carl Kinsella and the response on Facebook has been eye opening. Now a young female student from UCD has weighed in with her thoughts. Rachel O’Neill took to Facebook and Twitter to share her views. She pleads with group members and associated individuals to be more cautious. She writes: “With everything that's happened in UCD this week, I feel like this should be (yet another) wake up call on the poison that is lad culture. Lad culture has created a society where men have deemed it ok to share pictures and stories of women they have slept with their friends, without the woman's permission. Lad culture has created a society where we say 'What did she expect? She sent the nude' instead of 'Why would he share that with his friends without her permission?'. We don't lose our minds and blame the guy if he sends a dick pic but when a girl sends a nude, we're queuing up to call her a slut or a whore or to tell her she should have known better.This is the society we're in, this is where we are. We're still having the same conversations we had last year when the group 'Girls I'd shift if I was tipsy' was exposed. We keep saying things need to change and we need to teach men that women are not something they're entitled to. People were giving out about having to attend mandatory consent classes in Trinity next year. I saw one comment about that which said 'Should I ask for her PPS number too?'. People give out about going to fire safety talks because well, I'm not going to start a fire am I? And yet you still go. Consent isn't any different. This is my point really. Consent is something we're not taught about. From an early age we're told not to play with matches in case we start a fire but we're not taught as kids to not touch or hug someone if they don't want to be touched. It sounds almost stupid that we'd have to be taught that but yet we do. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm scared. 200 men in UCD didn't see anything wrong with what they were doing in that group chat. The only way they'd see something wrong with it is if one of the photos shared was someone's mother or sister. The problem has to be humanised before they can relate to it and that's not right. If you ask any woman if they feel safe walking home at night, I think you'd struggle to find anyone that says 'Yes'. We walk with our keys in our hands, expecting to get raped or attacked at any moment. And god forbid if we do, we'll be asked what we were wearing or how much we'd had to drink. That's normal for us. That's terrifying. So what am I asking? I'm asking you to call your friends and family out on things like rape jokes or sharing nudes. I'm asking you to help change this toxic, poisonous culture you and I live in. I'm asking you to ask for consent. I'm asking you to be a decent human being and try and stop something like 200 guys rating girls they've slept with from ever happening again. I'm asking you to step into the shoes of a girl, walking home at night with her keys in her hand and see the world through her eyes. We shouldn't assume we're going to be attacked. We shouldn't live in fear that at any moment, we could become another victim of lad culture. I don't want to live like that anymore, do you?”