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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Slut shaming

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Heggy79 · 09/03/2018 19:33

An interesting discussion is happening the school where I teach at the moment and I wanted to ask you all for your thoughts in order to help clarify mine.

We are an International school who have students from many cultures and no school uniform. We are a secular school who make that very clear from the outset with families joining the school.

It's the perennial 'issue' of what rules there should be surrounding the dress code for the students ... and staff.

Some of my colleagues are of the opinion that strappy tops should not be allowed for the girls and neither should short shorts for the girls. But the only thing they say about the boys is their underwear shouldn't be visible about the waistband of their trousers or shorts and no offensive slogans on clothing. And that applies to the girls as well...

I'm torn. On the one hand a girl with her ass hanging out makes me really uncomfortable at school - even when they're 11. But at the same time I very much believe a woman should be able to walk down the street naked without harassment. (Note: I did say should not could) Wink So should we be teaching girls that certain clothes are 'inappropriate'? School have gone for the line of 'as long as it doesn't restrict your activity' it's fine... but some staff are really pushing for clear bans on flesh!

What are your thoughts?

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midgebabe · 09/03/2018 19:52

Ok starting thoughts, as I am also interested in this. For me, there should be no separate girls rules. But that's the easy bit. I remember talking about it to teenage dd..asking her to why she felt that girls always wanted very short skirts. Why do they think it looks good. I guess if it would look really wrong on your granny, then you should think that perhaps you are not expressing freedom but some kind of sexualisation in your choice of clothes. You could generalise the boys pants rule into we should never be able to see your underwear..which means that you should be able to touch your toes and run about without it being exposed? So very thin straps would be rules out, but bare arms wouldn't?

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