Skirts are cool, boys are told: School bans shorts in summer in favour of 'gender neutral' uniform policy. The school has said boys who find trousers too hot in the summer months should instead wear a skirt.

ilikerelish · 2018-06-04T12:47:55+00:00

This makes complete sense to me.. Ban the unisex garment that had always been gender neutral, in favor of one that is specifically gendered that may cause half of your student body discomfort, and ridicule Good show!

sakura_drop · 2018-06-04T11:53:31+00:00

This is humiliating and demoralizing, what the fuck are they thinking? doesn't the school board have a say in schools anymore?

thrway_1000 · 2018-06-04T13:39:13+00:00

Sexism under the guise of "gender neutral".

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2018-06-04T10:42:17+00:00

Social engineering

ShadowMario01 · 2018-06-04T10:22:23+00:00

A good time to be Scottish, then

VoxVirilis · 2018-06-04T11:00:54+00:00

Normalize cross dressing.

Florient · 2018-06-04T14:49:49+00:00

This is not really about the uniform, it's more psychological subversion. It's subconsciously conditioning the idea that boys are lesser people by blatant and non-sensible treatment. It's part of a million little states towards the true second class citizenship feminists aspire to

LedZeppelin1602 · 2018-06-04T15:38:58+00:00

This isn’t gender neutral it’s feminisation. It if was neutral they could wear shorts or skirts

furchfur · 2018-06-04T07:18:52+00:00

Probably this policy is illegal under UK law. It would be forcing boys to comply with a policy outside a gender norm. It is like saying to girls you are only allowed to wear swimming trunks not swimming costumes. I am sure that the policy will be found illegal.

Akesgeroth · 2018-06-04T09:37:28+00:00

Sounds like humiliation to me.

WilboCop · 2018-06-04T15:37:45+00:00

One more way schools are trying to force males into being female.

njullpointer · 2018-06-04T18:10:15+00:00

I'm all for letting boys wear skirts and girls wear trousers, but this is just ludicrous, and probably illegal. Every time I think my home country can't fall any lower, they find a new low.

2018-06-04T19:15:35+00:00

Equality: girls get the choice of summer clothes, boys don't.

Equality!

HotDealsInTexas · 2018-06-04T21:29:03+00:00

Sigh...

A few years ago, I heard about male students intentionally showing up in skirts as a protest of a shorts ban - might've been at a different school. But apparently this one took it as inspiration.

Here's the thing. Boys should have the option of wearing clothes that conflict with gender roles. However, spitefully forcing it on them is disgusting and borderline abusive; and let's be clear, this is what's happening here. "You can wear uncomfortable clothing or humiliating clothing" is a textbook example of a sadistic choice, and it seems to be out of a power-tripping mindset where some official went: "Those little bastards want shorts? All right, you don't like our fucking trousers, then wear a fucking skirt! That'll teach you to ask to be treated like human beings!"

Sasha_ · 2018-06-04T14:47:48+00:00

So the boys have to wear a kilt? Isn't that cultural appropriation of Scottish heritage?

2018-06-04T14:47:52+00:00

The boys should put on skirts that go to their mass and have shorts underneath. If the school enforces skirt length, file a complaint against any female who violates that length

Splatriarchy · 2018-06-04T17:12:03+00:00

A gender neutral policy would be to allow boys and girls to wear skirts or shorts. Let them choose.

fingerboxes · 2018-06-04T14:56:49+00:00

Britain is a failed state.

Pseudonymble · 2018-06-04T19:39:34+00:00

Great. I just invented a fashionable new skirt, that sews the middle of the front to the middle of the back, emulating two "leg" holes! It's so fresh and fun, and empowering for young girls.

3-10 · 2018-06-04T15:39:20+00:00

Aren’t these called kilts when men wear it? All jokes aside, it is an attempt to normalize transgenderism. Simple as that.

lordtyp0 · 2018-06-04T20:47:26+00:00

Kilts are comfy... Want to subvert policy? Subvert their intent.

superzepto · 2018-06-04T22:43:53+00:00

Have they forgotten that kilts exist?

2018-06-04T23:15:54+00:00

If I was going to that school, I'd just say fuck it and wear shorts. Nobody's gonna stop me from living comfortably.

xetnies · 2018-06-04T16:49:58+00:00

Dark_Moose · 2018-06-04T16:54:51+00:00

So...kilts?

BigBaldHaggis · 2018-06-04T14:31:48+00:00

it's a Daily Mail article. I'm taking a very large pinch of salt on this story

svenskbitch · 2018-06-04T13:54:13+00:00

Was there not a few cases where boys actually tried this and were sanctioned? Anyone remember?

As a non-gender conforming (well, a bit, not much) man, I think it would be cool if boys would wear skirts. Mix things up a little. Why should this be more controversial than women wearing trousers?

But of course, the inequality lies in the simple fact that boys would have to break gender norms to get the same level of comfort as girls. Norms that, in the peer group at least, are still strictly enforced. At most, this might happen as part of a concerted, rebellious, group-based action; few individual boys would be able to summon the courage otherwise.

That is a tangible inequity that we all should oppose...

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