Re: Stone Soup 8/30/05


In the previous article, Paul Ciszek <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Has anyone ever challenged school uniforms on sexist grounds?
> Forcing all the girls to wear skirts, just because they are
> girls, is undeniably sexist.

Has anyone ever challenged "You have to wear a tie" rules in a school
or workplace on "sexism" grounds? That wouldn't get real far either.

Modes of dress are different for the sexes. It's that simple. If you
want to denounce this as "sexist," feel free, but you're going to be
far enough out of the mainstream on that one that you have passed
completely through "kook" territory on your way to "blithering," at
least as far as the way most people will regard your position.

Anyway, I've never heard of a *public* school requiring girls to wear
skirts, though some require boys to wear button-up collared shirts and
ties. Lots of private schools, particularly all-girl ones, do, but
that's rather different.

(My own position is that school uniforms in public schools are an
abomination, but then I'm not the kind of guy who gets real
enthusiastic about trading liberty for order.)

There was a recent "Cleats" where a mom asked the kid what he was
going to do if his school banned shirts promoting sports teams. Are
there really school dress codes out there with such provisions?
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