Dress Codes for Girls? BLAME BOYS. No Dress Codes for Girls? BLAME BOYS.

ILoveHate · 2013-12-15T01:47:18+00:00

[permanently deleted]

SteelCrossx · 2013-12-15T03:26:53+00:00

All, however, focus only on girls’ clothing, and most of these restrictions are put in place to avoid “distracting” other students (i.e. the boys).

This should be obviously incorrect to anyone that wasn't homeschooled. Boys have dress codes and they are often more strict. On top of that, those dress codes often impact MtF transgender students the most as it forces them to dress in men's clothes only. That was my experience, at least. In my high school, our single trans student was sent home at least once and ejected from at least one homecoming.

VZPurp · 2013-12-15T14:33:11+00:00

Wasn't there a study that showed other women judge each other more harshly than men do? I'm remember reading something of that nature, that women dress a certain way to impress other women more so than other men.

nihilist_nancy · 2013-12-15T03:14:02+00:00

http://judgybitch.com/2013/02/16/schrodingers-slut-or-why-it-matters-what-you-wear/

According to Amanda, girls should be able to wear skirts so short their panties show, and if boys find that disrupting, well, too bad. What we need to do is just IGNORE all the bodies around us and just focus on minds. Girl’s minds, of course. How boy’s mind’s react to provocative clothing and overt displays of sexuality are none of Amanda’s concern. The fact that such reactions are A) involuntary and B) distracting is not relevant. Who cares how boys perform in school anyways, amirite?

JakeDDrake · 2013-12-15T13:35:14+00:00

From what I remember there were plenty of dress codes for boys and dress codes that applied equally to each gender. The funniest one was that my school used to have a 'no facial piercings or gauges' rule but my friend joined the church of body modification and got it removed for religious reasons.

And if someone does seem to think that the dress code are more strict of apply more to girls I think that might be because men's styles don't require the showing of a lot of skin and we don't have special pants to show off our junk (yet). I'm not against girls wearing sexual clothing, hell this is when they're supposed to be learning about their sexuality, but goddammit if you wear something in public you can't get mad that people look at what you're wearing.

Funcuz · 2013-12-15T13:36:04+00:00

I just read a lot of the comments on that site. Most of them were talking about a supposed double-standard (maybe there is one , I don't know as I'm not in high school or even in North America anymore) and how "society" teaches people blah , blah , blah...

The usual stuff. Pretty contradictory all in all and definitely not particularly logical. I mean , maybe the reason you're not allowed to wear a bikini at school is because it's inappropriate ? So , on the one hand you've got people saying that "it's society that teaches boys and men to objectify women , therefore it's not us who should try to dress appropriately but rather men should learn to think appropriately." On the other hand you've got the "Girls shouldn't wear anything they want because it shows that they've been taught by society not to respect themselves if they wear revealing clothing."

Neither of these views is rooted in any reality the rest of us knows. Frankly , I've been sick of hearing about how "society" teaches us to _____ for years now. Always "society" teaching us. Nobody thinks "Hey...can somebody give me one concrete example ? One example of 'society' telling us to do something bad while not having the exact opposite message sent from another angle from 'society' ?

Whatever. Why would we expect anything else from the same source as the 1-in-4 women are raped myth ?

SJW_Scum · 2013-12-15T17:30:46+00:00

The excuse "to avoid distracting the boys" is a cop-out one: it's both misandric and not the real reason. The real reason is that some clothing is not considered appropriate in an educational setting. And young girls and not is stupid as to not know the power of their sexuality, but it's a Pretty Good Thing to give them more concrete ways to empower themselves. Children should be allowed to explore sexuality but not be given rope to hang themselves with.

The reason girls' dress codes are five times longer than boys' dress codes is because they push the rules five times as hard. And girls have a larger variety in fashion. Try wearing a utilikilt, earrings, or facial hair as a boy and see how far that'll get you.

Go to school dressed in full latex. Nearly every inch of skin is covered and they'll still make a rule banning it, because much as I love latex it's not appropriate. School administrators want to say "don't shit that makes you look and feel trashy" but that's not a very PC or good rule, is it?

blueoak9 · 2013-12-15T17:24:29+00:00

"Instead, these restrictions are executed with distracted boys in mind, casting girls as inherent sexual threats needing to be tamed. "

It's called sexual harassment, Ms. Valenti, and visual displays - you know, like those cheesecake shots you bunch said were so heinous - qualify as sexual harassment and a hostile environment.

Are you happy now?

Grailums · 2013-12-15T18:54:53+00:00

The only thing I agree with in this article is the fact she brought up that there is an oversexualization of younger females more and more in this day and age. While I'd be inclined to believe that as it stands younger female parents (such as those impregnated as a teenager) are the ones who are the biggest culprit since they buy into the "Bratz" dolls and "Baby Bratz" it doesn't just end with the dolls.

An ex of mine had a sister who had two kids, one white one mixed and the oldest one, the white girl, was put into short shorts, hoop earrings, and tiny shirts and make-up that made her look like a street walker on any given day.

It was horrifying and an eye opener. It isn't just singling her out, it is a trend a lot of single mothers who are young have been doing. I don't know the psychology behind it, but I would go as far as to say they are lacking so much self respect because they had a child at age 15 that they want their daughter to go through the same damn thing.

TheDongerNeedsFood · 2013-12-15T21:06:05+00:00

This is exactly like that bullshit article that was written by the white-knight mangina in which he blamed Robin Thicke for Miley Cyrus' behavior at the VMAs.

Yes dude, Robin Thicke should have totally stepped in and stopped Miley from what she was doing, but then again, if he had done that, you would've been writing a different article about how Robin Thicke was totally oppressing Miley!!!

These pieces of shit need to wake the fuck up and realize that females are responsible for their own fucking actions.

girlwriteswhat · 2013-12-15T08:50:50+00:00

Society fetishizing girls at younger and younger ages? Do they just make this shit up?

2013-12-15T21:21:32+00:00

Instead, these restrictions are executed with distracted boys in mind, casting girls as inherent sexual threats needing to be tamed.

And yet we need to teach boys not to rape...

2013-12-15T21:34:22+00:00

Admittedly I am using work dress code and not school dress code, but the rules are pretty simple. No t shirts, no sleeveless, no blue jeans, no sneakers no boots, and the only one that is gender specific is men must wear a collar and tie. And come spring the women more less ignore the sleeveless rule.

2013-12-16T00:13:55+00:00

Such rules focus on girls because, and this might seem crazy, boys dress far more conservatively 99% of the time; and, it's not be choice, it's because society already places significant restrictions on what men can or cannot wear.

Hell, men get shot for wearing the wrong thing, and she's worried about strapless dresses? I can't even.

Title	Dress Codes for Girls? BLAME BOYS. No Dress Codes for Girls? BLAME BOYS.
Author	Insilencio
Upvotes	38
Comments	27
Date	December 15, 2013 12:10 AM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1swee0/dress_codes_for_girls_blame_boys_no_dress_codes/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/dress-codes-for-girls-blame-boys-no-dress-codes.1156139 https://theredarchive.com/post/1156139

Comments