N Dakota High School Bans Leggings, Jeggings & Tight Jeans (b/c boys just can't control themselves!)

[big_dog]

A North Dakota high school has banned female students from wearing leggings, jeggings, or tight jeans, citing concerns that such attire can be distracting to their male classmates, and also makes girls look too much like a pre-bathtub-scene Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.

No, seriously: Valley News Live reports an assistant principal at Devils Lake High school introduced the new policy by playing two clips from Roberts' star-making performance as a prostitute to show students how the banned outfits supposedly made them appear. The news station also reported that an English teacher explicitly told students their tight pants made them look like "prostitutes walking the streets." The assistant principal—the same one who showed Pretty Woman—said the teacher probably shouldn't have put it that way.

The dress code isn't about objectifying girls, the slut-shaming administrator said, it's about making sure boys and male teachers aren't distracted. It's a pretty common argument in favor of dress codes for girls, but also a bullshit one. A Devils Lake High mom told Valley News Live that parents aren't buying it. "[Parents] were talking about how they think the boys should be able to control themselves and the girls should be able to wear the leggings and the jeggings and you know." Candace Olsen said.

http://gawker.com/school-says-horny-teens-cant-focus-if-girls-wear-jeggin-1640727264

[MADem]

1. Do the lads wear the saggy pants with their behinds sticking out?

Perhaps a nice unisex uniform for all would fix everyone's little red wagon...that way, EVERYONE would look like shit!!!

And by EVERYONE, I mean the TEACHERS, too. What's good for the goose is good for the gander!

Let them all wear academic robes that fall at least halfway between the knee and the ankle--the closer to the ankle, the better!

[big_dog]

4. dress them all like the kids in Harry Potter=no problems!

n/t

[winter is coming]

7. Saggins are against the dress code at my daughter's school, as are tight pants.

Every time I've seen the principal, she's been clothed according to the school dress code.

[MADem]

8. I like the idea of academic robes.

In the winter, they can be thick ones--that way the school can turn down the heat and save a few bucks. In the springtime, make them thinner and lighter, maybe a nice cotton blend.


When kids (and teachers) put on a costume, they get more into the role!

[snooper2]

2. This is in stupid fundie land, same fundies that flipped out over mascot being called "The Satans"

LOL...

They changed their mascot to "The Firebirds"

[monmouth3]

3. Leggings/North Dakota....Seems right to me...n/t

[hifiguy]

5. "Human hand grenade" down parkas and long johns under snow pants

for everyone. It gets damned cold up here in the nort' country.

[mythology]

6. Oh thank god

Without these sorts of rules, I lack the ability to function. I just kinda sit there and drool on myself.

What sort of normal person lacks any self-control?

[uppityperson]

9. Well, it IS Devils Lake

And, fwiw, argh.

[Brigid]

10. And what are the rules for the guys?

Oh, there aren't any? I thought not.

[Duppers]

11. don't you know that men can't control their dirty thoughts

Mustn't sit next to a woman on a plane either; it's sinful!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ultraorthodox-jews-cause-11hour-long-nightmare-on-board-flight-to-israel-9756899.html


This happened to me on a flight leaving London back in the early 1990's. Our flight was delayed while we passengers had to play musical chairs in order to accommodate a Muslim woman who would not be seated next to any man! Gawd forbid he might glance at her or even touch her hand!

Idiots, all of them.

[dballance]

12. Misogynist Idiots. Why not just tell the males to keep their parts zipped up in their pants?

Time to roll out the Niqabs and Burkas.

I'd be curious to see what their football cheerleaders' uniforms look like.

[WI_DEM]

13. Make sure the guys don't wear tight jeans, too

[KurtNYC]

17. Our school allowed "mooseknuckles"

but Led Zeppelin was all the rage then.

[Tryllian]

14. Principal and Asst Principal contact information

This link has email links to the principal of Devil's Lake High School, Ryan Hanson and the Assistant Principal Christa Brodina.

http://devilslake.nd.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scdirectory/default.php?sectiondetailid=911&showdir=41

[gopiscrap]

20. Welcome to DU

[WinkyDink]

15. So what? I happen to think schools SHOULD have dress codes. These are, for the most part, minors.

I spent 30 years working in a senior h.s.

[Jamastiene]

22. Only for the girls?

While the boys don't have to do a damn thing?

I think not.

[yuiyoshida]

16. Next month...

[big_dog]

19. the problems with jeggings

[MindPilot]

18. But come the pep rally & the big game...

the hottest cutest girls in school squeeze in to tiny tops and short skirts to gyrate and spin cartwheels in front of those same uncontrollable testosterone-addled boys.

Kind of cruel if you ask me.

[Iris]

21. well, maybe a ban on jeggings because...jeggings

[Jamastiene]

23. Geez, why didn't they go ahead and require burkas?

I hope someone sues for Title IX. Why should girls and women have to go through a bunch of extra shit because boys and men cannot control themselves? Make the boys and men actually learn some self control, ffs. Ridiculous!