It is pretty clear now that requiring boys to dress as boys for school is sexist, Mic.com says.
A co-ed group of students at Buchanan High School in Clovis, Ca. responded to the Clovis Unified School District’s decision not to change its dress code by cross-dressing. Girls wore men’s collared shirts, and boys wore dresses with thin straps.
Teenage girls across the nation have answered the call to raise awareness in myriad ways about sexist dress codes that allegedly promote the rape culture. Now it is boys’ turn to fight back against sexist cultural expectations that require them to dress according to their gender.
The code contains common restrictions, such as prohibiting leggings, short skirts and thin straps for girls and earrings and very long hair for boys.
“I want to know why girls can have short or long hair but men are forced to have short hair,” Buchanan High student William Pleasant wrote after he was denied enrollment his senior year due to his long hair.
The American Civil Liberties Union says the school’s policy violates gender expression protected under California law. A petition to approve a gender-neutral dress code had over 3500 signatures on Monday.
“The students of Buchanan High School are proving that dress codes are not only sexist, insulting and unnecessary, but they also prohibit the reason all students go to school in the first place,” Mic.com said, adding that a person’s clothing should not determine his or her education.
However, “by requiring female students to dress modestly, we are not penalizing them,” Jim Bazen, principal of Plymouth Christian High School in Grand Rapids argued an op-ed to the Grand Rapids Press. “We are protecting them! We do not want the girls to be considered 'sex objects.'”
Mic.com and many other news outlets have decided that the gender identity discussion is over despite the dubious truth and benefits of gender fluidity. However, the arguments for boys dressing as boys cannot be left by the wayside no matter how much the progressive agenda would like them to be regarded as archaic.
