Would Uniforms Solve Dress Code Problems?
What’s wrong with being a woman in society, humans were all created the same so why are women told to hide their body for “the sake of men”? Growing up girls are told to cover up that way a man can't stare at you a certain way, and yes people have sick minds, but we’re in a school environment, we should teach boys how to “control” themselves instead. Developing years do tend to lead to feelings and changes but people still need to be respectful. Most males have wives, sisters, and mothers so they must already know girls require certain clothing for their developing years. If school were to have uniforms would all the problems be solved? With uniform you’d be 90% assured coverage, but kids still can …show more content…
For example, “Actions like these train girls to think of (telling a girl to put a jacket on or cover themselves up more) and define themselves based on the male gaze. Dress codes recontextualize the way women and girls view themselves. When you tell a girl to put on a sweater, you take control of her body. When you do this, even if you say it’s for her “own good”, you take away her agency. You tell her that your body is not her own.” Yes, boys also get dress coded, but look at their reasons for the action. They're pants are either sagging, they're wearing a tank top with too much skin showing through the sides or their shirt contains language or something related to alcohol; boys have also worn shirts with women on them revealing a small amount of no coverage and yet they're not violating the dress code. So why is that girls can't wear tank tops they're shirts just with no sleeves and thin straps, girls are told to wear bras yet when a bra strap is seen they're asked to “put it away”. There are men who are slightly bigger who have breasts bigger than many women, yet don’t wear bras so technically girls don't have to either. Are they afraid their nipples will show, boys nipples show sometimes as well; a nipple is not a sexual organ, everyone has a
What’s wrong with being a woman in society, humans were all created the same so why are women told to hide their body for “the sake of men”? Growing up girls are told to cover up that way a man can't stare at you a certain way, and yes people have sick minds, but we’re in a school environment, we should teach boys how to “control” themselves instead. Developing years do tend to lead to feelings and changes but people still need to be respectful. Most males have wives, sisters, and mothers so they must already know girls require certain clothing for their developing years. If school were to have uniforms would all the problems be solved? With uniform you’d be 90% assured coverage, but kids still can …show more content…
For example, “Actions like these train girls to think of (telling a girl to put a jacket on or cover themselves up more) and define themselves based on the male gaze. Dress codes recontextualize the way women and girls view themselves. When you tell a girl to put on a sweater, you take control of her body. When you do this, even if you say it’s for her “own good”, you take away her agency. You tell her that your body is not her own.” Yes, boys also get dress coded, but look at their reasons for the action. They're pants are either sagging, they're wearing a tank top with too much skin showing through the sides or their shirt contains language or something related to alcohol; boys have also worn shirts with women on them revealing a small amount of no coverage and yet they're not violating the dress code. So why is that girls can't wear tank tops they're shirts just with no sleeves and thin straps, girls are told to wear bras yet when a bra strap is seen they're asked to “put it away”. There are men who are slightly bigger who have breasts bigger than many women, yet don’t wear bras so technically girls don't have to either. Are they afraid their nipples will show, boys nipples show sometimes as well; a nipple is not a sexual organ, everyone has a