http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/13/3437464/teen-girl-prom-impure-thoughts/
i just wrote about this and freedom she has the right to wear what she wants while others seemingly have the right to step on hers.
Clare’s prom dress
CREDIT: WINE & MARBLE (CLARE’S SISTER’S BLOG)
A 17-year-old high schooler from Virginia says she was kicked out of her prom because the parental chaperones were worried she was inspiring “impure thoughts” among the boys in attendance. Even though her dress adhered to the “fingertip length” dress code requirement, she was asked to leave.
Clare recounts her experience in a guest post on her sister’s blog. After Clare and her boyfriend bought tickets to the Richmond Homeschool Prom, she bought a new dress that she made sure was long enough according to the event’s “fingertip length” rule. But Clare is 5’9″, and even though the hem of her dress was within the guidelines, she says her long legs led some chaperones to assume she was breaking the dress code.
After Clare and her friends hung out a little bit on the dance floor — she writes that they weren’t even dancing, just “swaying with the music and talking and enjoying ourselves” — Clare was pulled away by one of the dance’s organizers, who told her that some of the fathers chaperoning the event had complained about her. They reportedly said that her dancing was too “provocative” and she was going to “cause the young men at the prom to think impure thoughts.”
making that assessment how by by what their lecherous minds thought, if dress was within guidelines it was just the powers that be usurping her right to dress the way she wants but again there are no freedoms in America without cost. this is more assertion of rule over rights by men against women/girls, they create uncertainty and low self esteem.
When Clare protested that she wasn’t even doing anything, she was told that her dress was too short and she needed to leave. She says she demanded to speak with the woman who was in charge of the prom, but the other chaperons refused to let her.
More broadly, Clare’s story is just the latest installment in a long line of examples of schools telling girls to cover up so they don’t distract their male peers. Ultimately, that attitude teaches girls that it’s their responsibility to prevent themselves from being ogled, rather than teaching boys to have the self-control to refrain from objectifying their classmates. It’s one of many ways that women are unfairly punished for their sexuality, and it’s exactly the type of framing that contributes to rape culture.
no war on women, yeah right.
