School Dress Codes Shame Girls And Perpetuate Rape Culture By Laura Bates

In TIME’s published ‘How School Dress Codes Shame Girls and Perpetuate Rape Culture’, Laura Bates explains that sexist school dress-codes,enforced to prevent girls from distracting their male classmates by dressing “provocatively”, tend to only regulate females’ attire, while administrators constantly turn a blind eye to males who harass girls. Bates believes school districts’ sexist dress-codes groom students to accept rape as inevitable because it teaches students that rape victims bring sexual-violence upon themselves. So, to prove that school districts need to address dress code debates rather than continue to dismiss them, Bates supports her claim that dress codes target only females when she provides actual schools’ dress-codes, quotes