Imagine this. You’re in class trying to pay attention to the subject brought to you by your teacher. As you’re writing down notes you get pulled out of class. They tell you that what you are wearing is a distraction to the people around you but nobody seemed to have noticed the shirt that showed your shoulders and your stomach. They were more focused on themselves or passing the class. Your learning got disrupted so that you could once again be reminded that women are nothing but sex objects in the eyes of men. And instead of teaching boys to listen and control themselves we teach young girls to cover up their bodies. I have seen 2 girls wear the same exact shirt to this school and as they were walking together in the hallway, the bigger chested girl got pulled into the office and dresscoded. Forced to change because she can’t control her body but the other girls got off easy. Just because of what it doesn’t “show as much” because their bodies were built and made differently. It isn’t fair. My stomach, shoulders, or chest are normal parts of the human body and are not sexual organs. We are 13 to 18 year old girls. If you are sexualizing us. You are the problem. But it doesn’t matter because I go to a school where the length of my skirt is more important than my education. But here’s is the real question we need to be asking. In the words of Billie Eilish, Do my shoulders provoke you? Does my chest? Am I my stomach, my hips? The body I was born with, is it not what you all wanted? If I wear what is comfortable I am not a woman. If I shed the layers I am a slut. These schools are blind to the fact that they are slut shaming young girls. What is the definition of slut shaming anyways? Slut shaming is a practice of criticizing people, especially women and girls, who are perceived to violate expectations of behavior and appearance regarding issues related to sexuality.

noun

the action or fact of stigmatizing a woman for engaging in behavior judged to be promiscuous or sexually provocative.

And what you as staff do not understand is you have normalized rape culture along with this. What is that you may ask? Rape culture includes jokes, TV, music, advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and imagery, that make violence against women and sexual coercion seem so normal that people believe that rape is inevitable.

noun

a society or environment whose prevailing social attitudes have the effect of normalizing or trivializing sexual assault and abuse.

If you ask any boy in our classes not a single one is distracted by the things we wear unless pointed out. Unless you interrupt everyone’s learning to dresscode a girl and send her to the office. I’m sorry if my belly distracts you, i’m sorry if my bottoms or my chest distracts you. I’ve never heard of a belly button or shoulders being a real distraction to anyone. The dress code was created in 1969. This was established when the world still believed that women were not equal to men. When we as women were forced to cover up because we were created for the soul purpose of marriage and the baring and raising of children. I believe that the dresscode needs to be updated. Dresscode should strictly be do not show you’re sexual organs. Boys walk around football practice in cutoff shits with their nipples out but if the girls soccer team were to wear sports bras during practice it’s a problem. Dresscode should be to have your nipples, breasts, buttchecks and sex organs covered at all times. What is wrong with the rest of our bodies. Let us have gender fluid rules. Let us be comfortable in our own skin.