[ SECRET POST #2694 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2694 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[General Hospital]


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[Homestuck, The Other Woman, Pacific Rim, Naruto, X-Men]


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[The Ear, the Eye and the Arm]


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[Warehouse 13]


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[Alton Brown and Anthony Bourdain]


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[YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Magic: the Gathering]


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[Smallville]













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Comments

Re: School Dress Codes

[philstar22]

Because they enforce gender norms that may not fit everyone. Because they often are focused on what women wear and not as much on men.

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

this is a serious problem with many (most?) school dress codes.

Re: School Dress Codes

[diet_poison]

ita.

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, I went to Catholic school for K-12 and none of our uniform codes really enforced gender roles at all, as far as I recall.

Uniform from k-8, dress code from 9-12.

Re: School Dress Codes

[greenvelvetcake]

Really? The girls didn't have to wear skirts and the boys could wear skirts? When I was in Catholic high school with a uniform, they'd only just allowed people to start wearing uniform pants.

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody had to wear skirts in either k-8 or 9-12. No boys tried to test the skirt thing in k-8 but I don't think there was a specific rule against it. Boys had to wear white polo sort of shirts and navy blue slacks, girls could do that, or wear a blouse or a skirt instead. Pretty sure one of my friends didn't wear skirts once for her last 2 or 3 years there.

9-12, the dress code boiled down to "Have a collar on your shirt, don't wear jeans, and don't wear a skirt that's too short" and that was it. It wasn't very strictly enforced, either.

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

one Catholic school I went to as a kid required everyone to wear school-issue polo shirts and khaki pants. Another gave girls the option to wear skirts.

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

I went to a catholic elementary school that made girls wear skirts. Even in the winter when it was fucking freezing and all we got were thin tights for our legs. And we had to have recess outside in like below freezing temps and it was just fucking awful. By the time I got to fifth grade I pleaded for my parents to take me out.

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

clearly, you should have gone to my school. it was better, and in a place where the temperatures never got to freezing. ergo you should have gone there qed.

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. I actually had to argue with the school board at my middle school to be allowed to wear shorts like the boys instead of a skirt.

Re: School Dress Codes

[diet_poison]

Really? Did you keep your cool? I would have blown a gasket.

What was their argument? Did you win?

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

It was actually pretty civil. I went in the first day of sixth grade in shorts, they said I couldn't wear them, I complained to my mom. We ended up having to buy a skirt for me to wear for like 2 days before they had the official meeting. It turned out that the uniform supplied coulottes (not sure of the spelling there, the pleated short things that look kind of like a skirt), which were deemed acceptable. So I wore those every day it wasn't cool enough for pants. Since this was in Florida, that was often.

It came across more that they'd never really had a gender-nonconforming girl who cared enough to argue about it, so they hadn't even thought about it, rather than that they thought all girls should wear skirts, period.

Re: School Dress Codes

[diet_poison]

huh.

I'm glad it worked out well for you.

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

Wasn't the case for me.

I never once wore a skirt.

Re: School Dress Codes

[icecheetah]

In my school there was a dress code, but the girls just had more options as to what they could wear (and I always wore trousers).

But my school was pretty lose on it. "Black, white and navy, doesn't even need to have the school logo, unless you are a prefect, in which case you get a gender neutral burgandy blazer."