It is a well known fact that dress codes can be more than slightly irritating to parents, students and teachers. However, despite the fact that over the years it seemed petty and small it is growing into an issue about the message it gives students about girls and their bodies. Catherine Pearlman, a mother of two, has become increasingly frustrated with the tight and rigid dress code that both belittles her daughters and gives students the wrong ideas about girls. One of her daughters, like many other children, is very tall. Due to this, it is increasingly difficult for her to find shorts that go past the finger tip length, and have resulted in numerous visits to the nurses office because of her "inappropriate attire". Pearlman claimed, "I think there are these subtle messages that sort of carry on that we shouldn't show something. Why shouldn't we show something? Because something's wrong with our body," she said. "We need to be teaching the boys what appropriate behavior is instead of teaching the girls that they have to cover up to protect themselves from the boys." Which is true because our bodies are over sexualized as toys rather than people. It is not our responsibility to make sure that boys act like proper gentlemen and not thirsty little kids who get too distracted from our dry fit shorts to focus on their work.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/health/school-dress-codes-body-shaming-girls-parenting/index.html
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