Women’s Clothes – Dress Restrictions In Schools Contribute To The Very Problem They Aim To Solve
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You tell her that her body ain’t her own.
Dress restrictions in schools contribute to the very problem they aim to solve. You control her body, when you tell a girl what to wear. When you control a girl’s body even if And so it’s ostensibly for her own good you take away her agency. Now let me ask you something. What about those distracted young boys?
They don’t necessarily deserve respect, bad girls can be desirable and sexy.
By barring particular outfits from school, dress codes Did you know that the logical conclusion of the distracting issue is, Will I turn someone on if I wear this? What’s a girl supposed to think in the morning when she wakes up and tries to decide what to wear to school? Now who is doing the sexualizing?My daughters would never have thought these things without the concern for overly exposed young bodies should be ‘well intentioned’. Now let me tell you something. Who wouldn’t look for to spare her daughter from these struggles? She now exists through the male gaze, You recontextualize her body. You’re also telling her, Because your body may distract boys, your body is inappropriate, when you deem a girl’s dress inappropriate. Notice that cover it up. Asking girls to cover up is a ‘Band Aid’ solution to much more socially ingrained problems like general misogyny and rape culture.
It won’t matter how much she covers up she’ll still be faulted for her inappropriate behavior, as long as a girl or woman is always sexualized.
These dress codes fall short of being legitimately helpful.
While budding sexuality and ‘selfimage’, what we cannot consider when enforcing restrictions on skirt length and the tightness of pants is the girls themselves not simply their clothes, their thoughts. Willow cut her hair since her beauty, her value, her worth ain’t measured by the length of her hair … even little girls have the right to own themselves. I made a promise to endow my little girl with the power to always know that her body, spirit, and her mind are her domain. That their bodies are not their own, nor their power, or self determination, This is a world where women, girls are constantly reminded that they don’t belong to themselves. Then, in her guide to selfobjectification, Caroline Heldman explains how sexually objectified women are dehumanized and viewed as lesscompetentand worthy of empathy by both men and women.
