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Where Do They Come In – Women’s Dresses

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What about those distracted young boys?

They aren’t idiots. So here’s a question. Now who is doing the sexualizing? My daughters would never have thought these things without their help school. Notice, where do they come in? Known what’s a girl supposed to think in the morning when she wakes up and tries to decide what to wear to school? They don’t necessarily deserve respect, bad girls can be desirable and sexy. By barring particular outfits from school, dress codes help boys identify and objectify inappropriate girls and women. The distracting logical conclusion issue is, Will I turn someone on if I wear this? Therefore, girls who violate dress codes are violating rules, and girls who violate rules are bad.

That their bodies are not their own, nor their power, or self determination, This is a world where women, girls are constantly reminded that they don’t belong to themselves. The concern for overly exposed young bodies may be wellintentioned. Whenever something to be looked at, with society fetishizing girls at younger and younger ages, girls are instructed to selfobjectify and see themselves as sexual objects. Willow cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth is not measured by her length hair … even little girls have the right to own themselves. On p of that, who wouldn’t want to spare her daughter from these struggles?

While casting girls as inherent sexual threats needing to be tamed, these restrictions are executed with distracted boys in mind.

Dress restrictions in schools contribute to the very problem they aim to solve. You control her body, when you tell a girl what to wear. As a result, while budding sexuality and ‘self image’, what we fail to consider when enforcing restrictions on ‘skirt length’ and pants tightness is the girls themselves not just their clothes, their thoughts. Generally, these dress codes fall short of being legitimately helpful. You tell her that her body is not her own. When you control a girl’s body even if it is ostensibly for her own good you take away her agency.

Asking girls to cover up is a Band Aid solution to far more socially ingrained problems such as general misogyny and rape culture. If poor selfimage is linked with objectification, it isn’t hard to see that this cycle feeds itself. So, those who are dehumanized may be mistreated and made to feel inadequate. I’m sure you heard about this. It won’t matter how much she covers up she’ll still be faulted for her inappropriate behavior, as long as a girl or woman is always sexualized. Those who are objectified by others are treated as less than human, and in understanding themselves as less than human may ‘self objectify’. In her guide to self objectification, Caroline Heldman explains how sexually objectified women are dehumanized and viewed as lesscompetentand worthy of empathy by both men and women. Nonetheless, where respect is absent, objectification is easy.

You’re also telling her, Because your body may distract boys, your body is inappropriate, when you deem a girl’s dress inappropriate.

You’re also telling her, Because your body may distract boys, your body is inappropriate, when you deem a girl’s dress inappropriate. Cover it up. She now exists through the male gaze, You recontextualize her body. Essentially, cover it up. She now exists through the male gaze, You recontextualize her body.