Explain why dress code is unfair to women
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Also story time, I once saw a bunch of boys protesting for the girls at my old school by wearing booty shorts.
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I honestly don’t think the dress code is that bad, but maybe that just depends honestly on what district you’re in.
For me, we have a code against wearing pajamas, but at least 60% of females wear them anyhow. This also includes male students, yet both genders are rarely punished.
Short skirts and booty shorts are also just a recipe for disaster? Like, this isn’t a walkway guys, this is school. You’re here every day. You’re here to learn, not get under the spotlight for Broadway. Plus, I doubt that anybody would want to be mooned when a girl in booty shorts bends over in front of them to grab their 60lbs makeup bag and small-ass backpack. Spaghetti straps is honestly a 50/50, because you shouldn’t really be wearing stuff like that in colder weather, it’s more understandable however in warmer temperatures.
Hoods over our heads and hats are also prohibited, but I still see kids here and there wearing them with zero issues.
Some parts of the dress code is quite suspicious towards females, but my district has a nasty habit of being blind sometimes, so my experiences might be different lol. -
@Kumi-Hoshi Gulp. I would get dress codded xD
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@Bandit my dress code was
No tank tops
Short skirts
Short shorts
Muscle shirts
Logo shirts
Crop tops
Open back shirts
Long dreads
Too long braids
Dyed hair
saggy pants
and Colored contacts.Evennnn Though a lot of kids in middle school wore this
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@Kumi-Hoshi Why would they want to dress up as an anime coloring book.
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@Duchess To see if the principals or staff would say anything, They’d go days or even months with this without it being noticed.
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@Kumi-Hoshi Then you ask if they’ve actually gone outside and touched grass or have had a shower in the last couple of weeks
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@Bandit lolll
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I’ve never personally had a problem with dress code at my school, but I’m pretty sure the board is afraid of me since I threatened a federal lawsuit against them if they didn’t change my name and gender in the system to my chosen name and female respectively :p
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@alex slayy!
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@Kumi-Hoshi
My regular outfit at school is either leggings and a tshirt with a zip-up or straight-up pajamas, and nobody bats an eye. Then again: I’m a senior, so I don’t think they would care regardless xD
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@alex mine was this crop top
This jacket
And these kind of pants.
I almost never got dress coded with that on LMAO
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@Kumi-Hoshi
I don’t see myself ever wearing anything that shows too much skin while I’m away from home, considering my physique (which I’m working my ass off to get to where I want to be) isn’t great. Medical stuff doesn’t help because HRT can make my weight go absolutely wild and either increase or decrease my weight, but that’s a risk I was, and still am, willing to take with being trans. Being in America at all also doesn’t help, despite the fact that I’m on the opposite side of the extreme obesity rates. New York is wild.
Anyway, there’s this one kid at my school who wears outfits that are more like not actual clothes and just paper, either being practically see-through or barely there to begin with; still hasn’t been dress-coded. They’re basically an attachment to their boyfriend’s body, basically ON TOP of him 24/7; to the point that the librarian had to yell at them.
Probably a controversial opinion - Ripped jeans/pants are a scam. You’re paying more for less fabric.
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@alex I was trans before, but I may be wrong…
Can you wait until your finances are ok enough to get your MTF stuff like hrt and surgery??
Or can you only be at a certain age?
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@Kumi-Hoshi
I started HRT at 16, a few months before turning 17 last year. It’s complicated as hell but sooooo worth it. My insurance covers my t-blockers and estrogen :3
For surgery: I think I have to pay, but my insurance might help. I was told there’s a whole process you need to go through first, but I’ll learn about it more when I finally get to that point in my life.
Also, what do you mean when you say you were trans before?
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@alex
I was exploring my identity, I thought I was trans but being a boy didn’t fit. Sorry If it sounded like i was practiclly choosing my gender LOlll
That also caused me to loose my Bf at the time then months later, he apologized for breaking up with me, telling me that he’s Bi.
I don’t see that dude anymore :\
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@Kumi-Hoshi
No worries, I was just curious about it.
My experience was similar in regards to experimenting with identity, and I’l end up making a post about it at some point in the stories category or whatever it’s called.
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@alex I’ll add mine as a reply then :>
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@Kumi-Hoshi
its totally personal bias, but I think basing if its “unfair” or not just based on what options for clothing is denied by a dress code isn’t a fair comparison, because societally speaking there’s less options for guys to be seen as socially acceptable anyways.
At my school we have a uniform, so everyone has to wear the same thing, except girls are also allowed to wear skirts with shorts under if they want, and girls don’t have to wear belts, or ties. On the other hand, guys have to cut their hair if its too long, be clean shaven every day, wear ties once a week, blah blah blah.
No one is allowed to wear non-uniform jackets or anything, even though its been below freezing almost every day now. I personally love wearing jackets, tee-shirts, and unique socks but none of those are an option for anyone.
That being said that’s just my school, and I’ve never attended a public school before but I know its totally different! -
@MrTree
Strict uniforms are kind of dumb in my opinion. Why force students to wear the same outfit every day? Why not just allow students the freedom to wear whatever and enjoy their younger years of life?
