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School offers girls shapewear as part of session on healthy body image

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PurgatoryOfPotholes · 15/01/2022 14:52

A school sent home a consent form about an initiative to promote healthy body image in teenage girls at the school. The inititive asked parents to consent to their daughters being given shapewear.

We, the counselors of Southaven Middle School, would like to have an opportunity to offer some healthy literature to your daughter on maintaining a positive body image. We are also providing girls with shapewear, bras, and other health products if applicable

The options on the returns slip are:
Yes, my daughter may receive the healthy literature, shapewear, bras and other products give by the counsellors of Southaven Middle School. She will need the following sizes

Shapewear (Top) [followed by list of sizes]
Shapewear (Bottom) [followed by list of sizes]
Bra Size [followed by a line to write-in]

And

No, my daughter may not receive the healthy literature, shapewear, bras and other products give by the counsellors of Southaven Middle School.

I can certainly see why a school might ask if they could provide teenage girls with bras, but shapewear?

Article here: edition.cnn.com/style/article/shapewear-middle-school-girls-wellness-trnd/index.html

School offers girls shapewear as part of session on healthy body image
OP posts:
MedusasBadHairDay · 15/01/2022 14:59

How the fuck did giving them shapewear help them with a healthy body image?!

JellySaurus · 15/01/2022 14:58

Bit of a contradiction, surely?

Shapewear hardly promotes a positive body image.

Can't help wondering what exactly is meant by 'shapewear' Hmm

FrancescaContini · 15/01/2022 14:58

WTAF????

They can fuck off with this BS.

lucillelarusso · 15/01/2022 14:56

It was probably a promotional event that the school was getting paid for. Tampax did them in the UK for years - I have no idea if they still do. Paid promotions are rife in US schools.

magicstars · 15/01/2022 14:56

Whaaat? I don't understand why they think this is printing a healthy body. How utterly bizarre.