Last month in Louisville, girls were denied entry to their school dance for wearing dresses that fell inches above the knee. The week before, in Alaska, a referee disqualified an elite high school swimmer over an interpretation of her team swimsuit. Recently my 11-year-old daughter experienced a similar disqualification: from a “class bonding” hiking trip.
Stone-faced, she said pajama pants were her only viable option. “Don’t worry Mom, I’ll tuck them into my socks.” That night I lay sleepless, blaming myself as an accomplice. After all, I was signing the tuition checks that paid the men who ran the school. The next day, I lathered my daughter’s downy bird-legs in DEET and sent her out the door in the longest pair of shorts and knee-highs she owned.
She did not cite a specific study, but stated that the frontal lobe of the male brain doesn’t fully develop until age 25, therefore teenage boys cannot be held accountable for their actions around girls in yoga pants.I told her that I assumed she would feel differently because she’s a woman. At the end of the conversation, the principal stated flatly that the rule would not change.
Unless the rules are absolutely morally and ethically ridiculous I make my kids follow the dress code. Life is full of rules. I cant go to work in my bathing suit. My work has rules. Rules I have to follow. Life is like that.
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