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A North Dakota high school has banned female students from wearing leggings, jeggings, or tight jeans, citing concerns that such attire can be distracting to their male classmates, and also makes girls look too much like a pre-bathtub-scene Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.
No, seriously: Valley News Live reports an assistant principal at Devils Lake High school introduced the new policy by playing two clips from Roberts' star-making performance as a prostitute to show students how the banned outfits supposedly made them appear. The news station also reported that an English teacher explicitly told students their tight pants made them look like "prostitutes walking the streets." The assistant principalthe same one who showed Pretty Womansaid the teacher probably shouldn't have put it that way.
The dress code isn't about objectifying girls, the slut-shaming administrator said, it's about making sure boys and male teachers aren't distracted. It's a pretty common argument in favor of dress codes for girls, but also a bullshit one. A Devils Lake High mom told Valley News Live that parents aren't buying it. "[Parents] were talking about how they think the boys should be able to control themselves and the girls should be able to wear the leggings and the jeggings and you know." Candace Olsen said.
http://gawker.com/school-says-horny-teens-cant-focus-if-girls-wear-jeggin-1640727264
MADem
(135,425 posts)Perhaps a nice unisex uniform for all would fix everyone's little red wagon...that way, EVERYONE would look like shit!!!
And by EVERYONE, I mean the TEACHERS, too. What's good for the goose is good for the gander!
Let them all wear academic robes that fall at least halfway between the knee and the ankle--the closer to the ankle, the better!
big_dog
(4,144 posts)n/t
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Every time I've seen the principal, she's been clothed according to the school dress code.
MADem
(135,425 posts)In the winter, they can be thick ones--that way the school can turn down the heat and save a few bucks. In the springtime, make them thinner and lighter, maybe a nice cotton blend.
When kids (and teachers) put on a costume, they get more into the role!
snooper2
(30,151 posts)LOL...
They changed their mascot to "The Firebirds"
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)for everyone. It gets damned cold up here in the nort' country.
mythology
(9,527 posts)Without these sorts of rules, I lack the ability to function. I just kinda sit there and drool on myself.
What sort of normal person lacks any self-control?
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)And, fwiw, argh.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Oh, there aren't any? I thought not.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Mustn't sit next to a woman on a plane either; it's sinful!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ultraorthodox-jews-cause-11hour-long-nightmare-on-board-flight-to-israel-9756899.html
This happened to me on a flight leaving London back in the early 1990's. Our flight was delayed while we passengers had to play musical chairs in order to accommodate a Muslim woman who would not be seated next to any man! Gawd forbid he might glance at her or even touch her hand!
Idiots, all of them.
dballance
(5,756 posts)Time to roll out the Niqabs and Burkas.
I'd be curious to see what their football cheerleaders' uniforms look like.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)but Led Zeppelin was all the rage then.
Tryllian
(1 post)This link has email links to the principal of Devil's Lake High School, Ryan Hanson and the Assistant Principal Christa Brodina.
http://devilslake.nd.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scdirectory/default.php?sectiondetailid=911&showdir=41
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)I spent 30 years working in a senior h.s.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)While the boys don't have to do a damn thing?
I think not.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)the hottest cutest girls in school squeeze in to tiny tops and short skirts to gyrate and spin cartwheels in front of those same uncontrollable testosterone-addled boys.
Kind of cruel if you ask me.
Iris
(15,666 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I hope someone sues for Title IX. Why should girls and women have to go through a bunch of extra shit because boys and men cannot control themselves? Make the boys and men actually learn some self control, ffs. Ridiculous!