Just found out that Zoe didn’t even know she was on curriculum, admits that her content isn’t teen friendly anymore and that the comment on female sex education was an after thought. Carrie’s insta story makes even less sense now! Does Carrie even know what she’s talking about? Did she even read the articles? Is she just making stuff up based on the headlines? I don’t think she’s even looked at Zoella’s response to it. I just had a look Zoe’s Instagram and even she admits it shouldn’t be on a gcse curriculum! Of the articles I’ve seen talking about Zoe being dropped from the curriculum, none of them have made comments about sex education. Just that her website wasn’t appropriate for the Media Studies GCSE anymore. Zoe herself brought up masturbation in response to the articles announcing the AQA was dropping her and how she would have loved her own website as a form of education when she was a teenager. I am aware that Zoella has been using her platform as a form of sexual education ie live-streaming a Pap smear, for a few years now. Whether you like Zoe or not, she’s done so much for women who look up to her. The conversation about sex education in school is completely separate to Zoe being dropped by AQA- but somehow her fans are merging them together as if it’s all connected. It isn’t.
On Zoe’s thread here on tattle, the main focus is on what is Zoella’s target audience on her website. They don’t seem to really care about AQA. It looks like Zoe’s target audience has had a big question mark over it for a while.
Sorry for waffling about Zoella but Carrie’s response to the whole thing confused me so much that I went down a Zoella shaped rabbit hole trying to figure out what was going on. Learned more than i needed to know about Zoe Sugg in the process lol
Edit- also, just want to add that I know it was started by some parents complaining to AQA about Zoe’s website and the article in question, but again what parents want their 14/15/16 year olds learning about sex toys in a Media Studies class? If they are going to learn that anywhere in a school setting it would be in a class dedicated to sex education.