School dress codes

• Tranquilled wrote on 2012-06-27 03:36
  [FONT="Verdana"][SIZE="2"]Any of you in New York City, possibly even the U.S., might have heard about Stuyvesant High School's protest of its dress code.
  
  The media jumped on it because we called our protest "'Slutty' Wednesday" and broke the dress code as a group. To be honest, few people care about the dress code's existence. The problem was with the administration enforcing it unfairly, targeting certain body types and only females. Administrators in charge of enforcing the dress code answered to nobody, so every day girls (even those following the dress code) were called "sluts" or told they were going to be raped.
  
  That's why we held the protest: to show support for those amongst our ranks singled out. All we want is for the administrators at fault to be disciplined and for the dress code to be made objective. Here's a video we made trying to defend ourselves against the New York Post.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VksMQPm6SpU
  
  We'd appreciate it if a lot of people watched this to understand why we did what we did.[/SIZE][/FONT]
• Claudia wrote on 2012-06-27 03:42
  Interesting. I know someone who goes to Stuy, but I don't know their dress code.
  
  Could you kindly elaborate for us what the dress code is?
• Tranquilled wrote on 2012-06-27 03:51
  [FONT="Verdana"][SIZE="2"]It's not very strict, but it's very subjective (more so since the people who enforce it do as they please, mostly). It's the same for males and females: shorts and skirts should come below the fingertips, shoulders, most of the back, and midriffs should be covered, no "distasteful" shirt designs, and no open-toe shoes. The problem is that males are hardly ever called aside for breaking the dress code, even though many do. Tall girls are usually pulled aside, much more than shorter girls. It used to be that legwear had to "reach the fingertips when arms are fully extended," but a lot of these tall girls complained that they were being discriminated against, because they were being called aside when their skirts did so. They made it more subjective by changing the wording to "well below the fingertips." The dean and the attendance office women could call aside and insult girls pretty much however they pleased.
  
  Here are some anecdotes from before the dress code was altered slightly: http://stuyspectator.com/2012/04/27/redress-the-dress-code/[/SIZE][/FONT]
• Guyverunit4 wrote on 2012-06-27 03:59
  I didn't hear about this.
  
  When you say below the fingertips, does that mean like below the knee?
• Tranquilled wrote on 2012-06-27 04:01
  [SIZE="2"][FONT="Verdana"]No, it actually means below the fingertips. As in, when you extend your arms down your sides, the skirt should come below it.
  
  Thing is, taller or curvy girls get harassed even when they follow that rule because it doesn't say how much it should extend past there.[/FONT][/SIZE]
• Cynic wrote on 2012-06-27 04:10
  Well, dress codes aren't necessarily a bad thing since there are some dumb sluts who would literally come to school in nothing but a thong and bra if they could just to appease other people and get them to sleep with them. Sadly, dumb people like that make it hard for normal people who just like to dress a bit sexily because they like how it looks on them, not because they want everybody to screw them.
  
  Implying that dressing in that way is why girls get raped and that girls who dress like that SHOULD be raped, however, is a load of shit. A girl should be able to walk around bare-ass naked and not get raped. Clothing does not rape people; people rape people.
  
  All that being said.. they definitely need to be more specific and stop being a bunch of misogynist pricks.
• Claudia wrote on 2012-06-27 15:38
  Wow, that's...obnoxious and annoying.
  
  Go you. This sounds like total bullshit that girls are getting from the administration.
• Second wrote on 2012-06-27 18:27
  Is there any pictures of this [FONT=Verdana]'Slutty' Wednesday"?
  :whisper:
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• Tranquilled wrote on 2012-06-27 18:39
  [FONT="Verdana"][SIZE="2"]Yes. Because the New York Post is excessively disrespectful to pretty much everyone, mostly. Oh, you people.[/SIZE][/FONT]
• MareneCorp wrote on 2012-06-27 18:55
  I know a couple of guys that go to Stuy, and I'm from Bx Sci. I haven't heard anything of a protest o.o This is interesting
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-06-27 19:33
  There is plenty of way to look more slutty without exposing much skin at all.. So skin exposure really isn't a factor.