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How do you feel about the way schools often seek to control how girls dress

on the basis that it is just too distracting for the boys?

Personally i feel that objectifies young women and gives young men too little credit.
Just another example of women's bodies being considered offensive or inappropriate.

If you want to tell girls that they can't show their shoulders or belly or legs then you better make damn sure that the guys aren't allowed either.

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MethDozer · M

I think it's good for schools to have strict dress codes.

All this hooplah that it's unfair to girls is crap. The fact is that there isn't droves of boys dressing like adults ready to go to the club to get some like there is with high school girls. Men's and boys fashion just doesn't have that aspect so the point being made is moot. It's not l;ike if boys started showing up with skin tight bikini shorts and a cod piece in their crotch while wearing a belly shirt made out of netting that it wouldn't be taken to issue as well.

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MethDozer · M

@Celine Nope, it's not. What you and others who make a mountain out of this molehill is that the boys aren't doing it for there to be an issue with them. It's school, it's not the club. It's not a place to go and try and show off with dress.

If you cannot express you femininity without dressing sexy and attention seeking by showing large amounts of cleavage, min skirts with high heels, bra straps, upper thighs, and torsos then you have a warped sense of femininity. Also anyone who says that style of dress isn't to try and draw sexual attraction and attention is being blind and lying to themselves. It's the exact purpose of it and we all know it.

As open-minded I am this one is taken way pout of context and is not a real issue. It's kinda ridiculous.

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MethDozer · M

@Celine Again, a denial of the fact that bpoys aren't doing it in the first place. An issue can only be dealt with as it arises.
No hyperbole here darlin', you are just letting emotion to cloud seeing the forest for the trees IMHO. You hear the word "girls" or "women" so must take the side you are because of "reasons". Again IMHO.

School isn't a fashion show or a place to try and attract.

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MethDozer · M

@Celine Well when you describe miniskirts it's only natural to address them. Sorry, but just going on your descriptions.

Your use of passive-aggression makes the my emotional remark hold weight.

Sharon · F

@Celine [quote]It is unfair because they're being controlled and boys are not. Why is that?[/quote]

I don't know about where you are but here, in the UK, boys and men face far more restrictions on how they dress than women do.

What we really need is teachers who spend their time and are capable of doing the jobs they're paid for, not wasting time imposing petty, pointless and stupid rules. Students have been known to be sent home because they were wearing the wrong colour socks!.