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Schoolgirls having to wear shorts under their skirts

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AreYouTerfEnough · 28/03/2018 03:39

Schoolgirls wear shorts to stop ‘upskirts’

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3e3c3da6-3203-11e8-9cf6-8fd69d6da6df

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AJPTaylor · 28/03/2018 07:51

dont get me started
recently moved
i have discovered that local secondary uniform for girls is a pleated skirt. 19" long in dds waist size. she is ridiculously tall. no trousers allowed. no leggings allowed. she will be wearing cycling shorts. fgs it feels like we have moved to the 1950s.

NotTakenUsername · 28/03/2018 07:50

Should say upper schools

NotTakenUsername · 28/03/2018 07:50

Oh bore off. You don't like skirts- fine- don't wear them.

In the upper school in my local area the girls must wear skirts. They have to wear them. The shorts are a layer of protection needed because of the clothes they are being forced to wear.

LassWiADelicateAir · 28/03/2018 07:47

Why should they ban an article of clothing or stop girks wearing something
Because skirts are inefficient and pointless in most settings, schools being one of them

Oh bore off. You don't like skirts- fine- don't wear them.

noeffingidea · 28/03/2018 07:44

Why should they ban an article of clothing or stop girks wearing something
Because skirts are inefficient and pointless in most settings, schools being one of them.

NotTakenUsername · 28/03/2018 06:56

We were wearing shorts under our skirts long before mobile phones where a thing, much less camera phones.

Because select nasty boys, and girls, would pull them up as a form of humiliation light hearted banter...

For the boys there was ‘debagging’...this was running up behind a boy and pulling down his trousers and pants. This tended to be carried out almost exclusively by select boys, but I remember the nastiest girl in our year doing it once, much to the delight of a the boys. Hmm

You had to laugh at the humiliation light hearted banter you received because experience taught that to do anything else was to single yourself out as a target and become the butt of much more regular abuse gentle ribbing...

I actually felt worse for the boys in this cruel game, it somehow seemed more humiliating to have to bend over and collect your dignity than it was to have it fall back down after having dark cycling shorts exposed. A quick smooth of the skirt and it was over.

CircleSquareCircleSquare · 28/03/2018 06:37

I don't understand why schools don't just ban skirts altogether. Everyone wears trousers then things like this are no longer an issue.

Why should they ban an article of clothing or stop girls wearing something? Yes curtail the freedoms of girls because of predatory boys, that makes perfect sense. Hmm

BertrandRussell · 28/03/2018 06:37

“I don't understand why schools don't just ban skirts altogether. Everyone wears trousers then things like this are no longer an issue.”

Because why should girls change what they want to do because some boys are arseholes?

StealthPolarBear · 28/03/2018 06:32

How does it stop up skirts though? Surely it just means they take a picture of a different bit of cloth?.
Anyway as always women change their behaviour because men apparently can't

ThatsWotSheSaid · 28/03/2018 06:31

How about instead of banning girls from wearing skirts they teach the boys about sexual harassment and punish them harshly if they do it?

noeffingidea · 28/03/2018 06:29

I don't understand why schools don't just ban skirts altogether. Everyone wears trousers then things like this are no longer an issue.

ThisIsTheFirstStep · 28/03/2018 04:36

Happens a lot here in Korea - there are even signs on the subway saying ‘don’t take upskirt shots of women on the escalators’.

What the hell is up with men like that? All the porn in the world available to them and it’s not enough. Their minds are utterly depraved.