School dress codes are a big issue in the United States and are a great example of inequality towards female students. Some schools such as catholic schools have a specific attire students are forced to wear. Students can not wear tight clothes and must wear clothes with specific colors. Catholic schools are just one example. In other schools, girls are not allowed to wear shorts that are not fingertip length. Fingertip length shorts are hard enough for most girls to find let alone girls with long arms, it can be almost impossible some female students to find a pair of “school appropriate” shorts to wear school. Inequality plays a huge role in school dress codes because girls are more targeted by dress codes then male students. Teachers are
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Female students get body shamed because of the clothes they wear. A girl will get dress coded for wearing shorts that do not end pass her fingertips or a shirt that lets her belly button be seen and does not hide her shoulders. Female students must cover most of their bodies in order for their outfit to be considered appropriate. Corresponding to Catherine Pearlman a mother and co-founder of the family couch in the article Do school dress codes end up body-shaming girls implicates,“She has very long fingers which seems to make finding shorts that won’t get her sent to the principal’s office impossible. I can tell you from experience that just heading to the mall, target, and the outlets won’t cut it. Not much for her there. I’ve already checked” (Wallace). Dress codes take an aim at clothing worn by girls in many different aspects. According to the article School dress codes are tougher on girls than boys,“These dress codes are rooted in the hard-to-die concept of boys and men being unable to control themselves around women and girls” …show more content…
Boys say that they get distracted because of what girls wear, however they show lack of respect to girls. Most female students follow the dress code but males still find ways to get turned on by what they are wearing. According to the article Do school dress codes end up body-shaming girls, “Pearlman said her daughter, now 13, had been told in the fall by a teacher that she couldn’t wear yoga pants because the boys would get turned on and then be embarrassed” (Wallace). Schools judge girls for their bodies and are being sexist towards females by blaming them for not being able to control what a boy thinks about her body. A dress code just calls girls out on what they are wearing and causes them to become self-conscious about her body and feel as though she does not belong. According to the girl getting dressed coded in the article Do school dress codes end up body shaming girls, “The message her school is sending her, she said, is that she should cover up and be ashamed. If I show a little bit of my body, I’m considered a bad girl. Just because I’m wearing this doesn’t mean that I want people to look at me sexually. I want to be seen as a woman. I don’t want to have to feel bad about my body”
Female students get body shamed because of the clothes they wear. A girl will get dress coded for wearing shorts that do not end pass her fingertips or a shirt that lets her belly button be seen and does not hide her shoulders. Female students must cover most of their bodies in order for their outfit to be considered appropriate. Corresponding to Catherine Pearlman a mother and co-founder of the family couch in the article Do school dress codes end up body-shaming girls implicates,“She has very long fingers which seems to make finding shorts that won’t get her sent to the principal’s office impossible. I can tell you from experience that just heading to the mall, target, and the outlets won’t cut it. Not much for her there. I’ve already checked” (Wallace). Dress codes take an aim at clothing worn by girls in many different aspects. According to the article School dress codes are tougher on girls than boys,“These dress codes are rooted in the hard-to-die concept of boys and men being unable to control themselves around women and girls” …show more content…
Boys say that they get distracted because of what girls wear, however they show lack of respect to girls. Most female students follow the dress code but males still find ways to get turned on by what they are wearing. According to the article Do school dress codes end up body-shaming girls, “Pearlman said her daughter, now 13, had been told in the fall by a teacher that she couldn’t wear yoga pants because the boys would get turned on and then be embarrassed” (Wallace). Schools judge girls for their bodies and are being sexist towards females by blaming them for not being able to control what a boy thinks about her body. A dress code just calls girls out on what they are wearing and causes them to become self-conscious about her body and feel as though she does not belong. According to the girl getting dressed coded in the article Do school dress codes end up body shaming girls, “The message her school is sending her, she said, is that she should cover up and be ashamed. If I show a little bit of my body, I’m considered a bad girl. Just because I’m wearing this doesn’t mean that I want people to look at me sexually. I want to be seen as a woman. I don’t want to have to feel bad about my body”