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I think someone who wears clothes that may not conform to society's gender norms because he feels said clothes represent him the best, despite outside pressure and hostility is pretty damn strong in my opinion. #dresscodes
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I think his idea of strength is markedly different than mine. #dresscodes
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See "Prevention Challenges / Stigma": [www.cdc.gov] #dresscodes
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Yup. But here's the thing I've never, ever understood as an adult (though as a child I would have protested it to the death): Why aren't uniforms just common practice? Polo shirts, khaki pants for all I say. It's insane. Considering the amount of crazy I think being a parent entails, I would be advocating the hell out of a policy that would make my life easier (a morning without fighting over clothes)! But that said, it's also good for other reasons, like eliminating class issues and taking the equation of clothing out of education. #dresscodes
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The problem isn't that some kids have ratty shoes and get picked on--it's the people who are doing the picking. Teaching kids that bullying and teasing is wrong should be the priority--not making us all look the same. #dresscodes
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The problem with a school dress code that bans "disruptive clothing" is that what counts as disruptive depends on mainstream social mores, and could be seen not just as an article of clothing that provokes conflict (a confederate flag T or a shirt with an abortion message, for example),but as anything that makes administrators or other students uncomfortable. And when it comes to people not measuring up to cultural standards of masculinity or femininity, our social mores have a long way to go to even reach "tolerant". There's a difference between an article of provocative clothing (a "message" T-shirt that someone would wear one day) and someone's gender expression (how they feel comfortable dressing day-to-day).
No, this student should not be allowed to come to school in a Vegas showgirl's pants-less outfit. But the blame-the-one-who's-different tone in some of these comments is disturbing.
So some kids are made uncomfortable by someone assigned male at birth wearing make-up and skinny jeans? Maybe we should put a little more effort into teaching them that it's okay to be different (even wildly different) in terms of gender expression, than in telling the one who's different to be uncomfortable on our behalf. Someone's going to be made uncomfortable in this situation -- Could someone explain to me why it should be the kid who's challenging gender norms instead of the kids being challenged? Because from where I'm standing, it shouldn't.
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/sarcasm
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I also want to apologize for my unnecessary and rather arbitrary use of capitals. WHO AM I? KANYE?