The dress code that wouldn’t allow me to wear tank tops as a 7 year old girl because it was “inappropriate”. The dress code that will kick me out of class for a visible bra strap so the boys can get their education without any “distractions”. The dress code that sexualizes all girls, elementary to high school, in any way it can. The dress code that is built upon misogynistic ideologies. You’re probably wondering what these two things mean in relation to each other. To me, it’s very simple; in the United States, I have the right to bear arms, but not to bare shoulders. People can cry or scream like a toddler about how owning an assault rifle is their human right, but if I complain about not being able to wear a tank top on a 95 degree day with 75% humidity, I need to “get over it” and “stop blaming things on sexism”. There is something very perturbing and backwards when the female body is seen as something more taboo and scandalous than extreme
The dress code that wouldn’t allow me to wear tank tops as a 7 year old girl because it was “inappropriate”. The dress code that will kick me out of class for a visible bra strap so the boys can get their education without any “distractions”. The dress code that sexualizes all girls, elementary to high school, in any way it can. The dress code that is built upon misogynistic ideologies. You’re probably wondering what these two things mean in relation to each other. To me, it’s very simple; in the United States, I have the right to bear arms, but not to bare shoulders. People can cry or scream like a toddler about how owning an assault rifle is their human right, but if I complain about not being able to wear a tank top on a 95 degree day with 75% humidity, I need to “get over it” and “stop blaming things on sexism”. There is something very perturbing and backwards when the female body is seen as something more taboo and scandalous than extreme