This current event is a movement to ban school dress codes that make women feel uncomfortable and embarrassed when wearing "scandalous" clothing that are supposedly distracting to boys. Girls get pulled out of class to be slut shamed while boys can do whatever they want. Taking away someones education because of how they dress? I don't think so. Uhh maybe men can learn to respect women. Girls don't feel the need to stare at boys who wear those shirts that have little to no fabric on the sides which are pretty scandalous if you ask me, so I think boys could manage to focus in class even if a girl's bra strap is showing. People should be able to wear whatever the want. This includes my girl Scout who enjoys wearing pants, not dresses like other girls.
"Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants." (Lee,92)
Scout is a young girl being taught that she can only hope to be a real lady if she wears dresses not pants. The victims of the school dress codes are being taught that the way they are dressing is inappropriate because it distracts men. What about what women wear is anyone's business but their own? Telling women to wear certain types of clothes to make them look more feminine or modest is teaching men that it's okay to push us girls around.
Your point about the double standards is so true. It makes me so mad that men are told that they don't have to take responsibility for their actions because it's "not their fault" while girls have to be shamed and make sure that what they were is not to "tempting" for men. If we stopped putting the blame on girls and started realizing that men are not complete animals and can pull it together so that a girl may show every bra strap she wants to. Also side point bras are super uncomfortable already so policing it isn't helpful. As soon as we stop teaching young girls that their body is solely an object that they should feel ashamed of we won't have this problem. Also your gif at the end is perfection.
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