This is a picture of a little girl wearing a favorite dress that covers her from ankles to armpits.
Her Houston school sees her as a miniature temptress.
what eye thynk: This article, written by a Texas dad, makes me both sad and angry.
The weather is warming up and Jef Rouner's five-year-old daughter wanted to wear her ankle-length sundress to kindergarten. When Daddy came to pick her up at the end of the day, she was wearing a t-shirt over the top of the dress and a pair of jeans underneath. The school made her cover up because she was showing too much (female) skin.
Upset that her school would sexualize and shame his daughter, Mr. Rouner asked to see the school dress code. He reported:"There are literally no male-specific guidelines anywhere on that list. I mean prohibitions against exposing the chest or torso could hypothetically apply to boys except that they don't. Not really. They don't sell boys clothes that do that. There's nothing that is marketed to boys that is in anyway comparable to a skirt or a sun dress. Essentially, a school dress code exists to prevent girls from displaying too much of their bodies because reasons...
I didn't pick up my daughter's dress at My First Stripperwear. It's not repurposed fetish gear from a store for very short people...She's worn it to church...
...You know what really grills my cheese about it? It's not even the shirt they made her put on over her top, it's the pants they made her wear underneath...because the top part of her dress apparently exposed the immoral sinfulness of her bare shoulders she also had to pull on jeans...as part of her punishment."
And make no mistake, that's what this was: a punishment. A five-year-old child went to school happy and innocent, wearing a dress she loved. She came home carrying the burden that she should feel ashamed of her body."This is still going on in 2015. It really is. We still live in a country where someone can decide the shoulders of, and I can't stress this enough, a five-year-old girl are so distracting that they must be sent away and decently hidden...
...Now I have this child, the one (who) argues scientific points about everything from the top speed of land animals in Africa to the classification of the planets with me endlessly, wordlessly accepting that a dress with spaghetti straps, something sold in every Walmart in America right now, is somehow bad. Wrong. Naughty. And most importantly that the answer is to cover up."
Body-shaming a five-year-old; these Houston school authorities must be so proud. Who are they protecting, little girls or themselves? And what does that say about how they think of girls--and women?
This silly act by 'people in authnority' is unworthy of any comment let alone an intelligent one.
ReplyDeleteThat having been said, the school in question is no doubt staffed with a bunch of 'pervs' feeling the weight of wannabe pedo's hiding behind the now non nude, (that's right!) NON-nude shoulders of a child!
Imagine that, a five year old CHILD wearing a sundress. What decadence. Who knows how she will dress next. Oh no..... summer is here. You don't think... No, She wouldn't... Would she? Would she wear a swim suit of some kind? In public where she might be seen by others?
What in God's good name did the staff see that gave them some bizarre erotic reaction when they gazed upon her bare shoulders and deemed it as "displaying too much skin".
Psychology teaches us that we can only gauge another based on our own personal values. Kind of make you wonder what values those sick bastards have. I wonder what kind of sexual things do they see when they look at the other five year olds?
I'd be willing to bet that they head straight for the mall after work, where they can drool, er, eh see naked shoulders outside of their work environment. You know how careless a mom can be about such things