Proving once again that females are strong as hell.
When a student body president took administrators to task about her own body.
South Carolina student Carey Burgess didn't protest the times she was reprimanded for wearing forbidden colors (ahem) as per Beaufort High School's dress code, since those rules apply to all students. When she was suspended for wearing the, um, pretty damn conservative outfit pictured above, though, she went IN.
"Maybe our society isn't yet advanced enough to handle 3 inches of my thigh," Burgess said in an October Instagram post. "This is a patriarchal society and I am a woman. I have to be kept in my place, or I may do something that is so rarely seen in Beaufort High School — learn.
"How could I go on without a certain teacher making sexist jokes all class? How could I survive without my science professor letting me know I am an inferior woman? ... Maybe instead of worrying about my skirt, Beaufort High should take notice of its incompetent employees, and sexist leaders."
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When Not "A" Distraction was the perfect mix of bravery and bookishness.
When students at South Carolina's Charleston County School of the Arts observed their dress code being selectively enforced (read: basically just on women), they employed a classic example of the harm done by misogynistic and quite literally puritanical values — Hester Prynne — to help make their point. About 100 girls protested the code by wearing actual scarlet "A"s to school, showing their intolerance for sexist nonsense as well as their literary savvy.
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When the "fingertip rule" chose the wrong sister to point at.
Do you see anything risqué about the above photo? You're not alone; Texan Erica Alyse Edgerly actually had to add a follow-up to her original viral Facebook post on her sister Macy being sent home from school to explain what exactly the Orangefield High School faculty found objectionable about the outfit. The answer? In a school where shirt hems are required to reach students' fingertips, "The front and back of her shirt were that length... But the small part on the sides was not."
"How about instead of body shaming women, school systems should start teaching 15-18 year old boys to stop degrading women with their eyes and contributing to the rape culture of today's society," Edgerly wrote in her original post. "Bottom line, girls cannot go to school in comfortable clothes THAT COVER EVERYTHING because school systems are afraid that hormonal boys won't be able to control their eyes and minds. And that is such a bigger problem than worrying about clothing."
That's a point much more apparent than the problem with Macy's outfit.
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