Wasn't there a time, not that long ago, when student protests were, you know,
about something? In New York City's legendary Stuyvesant High School, kids are bucking the administration en masse and taking on another critical issue: dress codes. They fought back hard recently at new regulations in a campaign they called "Slutty Wednesday," during which they wore risque outfits to school and passed around flyers that said "Redress the Dress Code." Edgy!
Some of the draconian rules the brave students are protesting require, according to
The New York Times that any sayings and illustrations on clothing should be in “good taste.” Another calls for shorts, dresses and skirts to extend at least beyond the fingertips when arms are extended straight down. A third bans the exposing of “shoulders, undergarments, midriffs and lower backs.”
“We work our asses off here and school is about learning. Clothing is not important,” ninth grader Lucy Greider told The New York Post. Some of the boys protested the new rules as well, claiming offense that the administration assumed they were unable to control themselves in the presence of girls in short skirts, and definitely not because they want to see girls in short skirts. So what do you think about "Slutty Wednesday?"
I heard it from an ex-LA Captain a couple of years ago.
After seeing a few on "COPS" fall because of their pants falling around their ankles, it sure made sense to me.
Further, the teen years can be a difficult time for people to control their impulses; this partly has to do with brain development (check out Scientific American for more on that).. Sometimes teens "do not always exercise good judgment, so they sometimes fail to make good or proper decisions" (the quotes mean that's the nice way to say it). And remember, thanks to modern methods of raising up little Brandon (6th most popular boy's name of 1997), some of these guys don't have a lot of practice in impulse control. So, you want to...give them something to "think" about by the way you dress? I thought school was about learning. Surround the guys with girls dressed like sluts, and it's a sure bet that their learning quotient will decline on Wednesdays.
Too busy worrying about being sluts to ever care about achieving something in the future. So sad.
Oh, buy clothes that fit too. :-P