I just meant regulating them, but yeah. As someone dating a person who had to get her breasts reduced down to double ds, I get it.
School tells braless teen to cover up her nipples with band-aids
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Its not natural to harass and bully a girl because she's not wearing a bra. That's absolutely the kind of thing that deserves to be called out and punished instead of essentially saying she was asking for that to happen by not wearing a bra
Also, not all bras will stop nips from being seen. MOST of my bras have this issue. Should we dictate that these women can only wear padded bras (which are often "bust-enhancing", so gotta be careful there too!!)? Should we have them shop from pre-approved bras to make sure nipples never, ever show through? What other ways are we gonna make women and young girls jump through hoops to make sure men don't sexualize us?
Or maybe we should de-stigmatize women and young girl's fucking nipples. And yeah, I see dude nipples all the damn time. I can manage to contain myself (since people seem to forget that straight women and gay men are turned on by the torsos of men).
No, my position is that many social rules are arbitrary, but that doesn't somehow invalidate them. It's completely arbitrary that black is the colour to wear for funerals, for example, but you're not a "rebel" if you wear a different colour, just an asshole/weirdo. Similar thing here. Not wearing a bra to school isn't being "progressive."
When kids came to the school in singlets for Halloween they got asked to put on shorts. Manbulge is also not a thing a schools gonna be down with in a classroom.
There were whole episodes from Seinfeld and Married with Children dedicated to this stuff. For MwC, it was specifically about Friends.
They were actually bullying and making fun of her? I must have missed that part. I thought it was just teenage boys glaring and snickering among each other.
How do either of those compare to not wearing a bra? Do you know how bra's work?
OK. I don't have strong opinion on this either way, but are you saying that kids can go in swimwear to school if they want to? Just making sure I understand this sentiment :)
Let me help you. What is inappropriate about this?
Ummm... If you go by that picture, how did the school know she was not wearing bra?
Am I the only one who thinks that closely examining 17 year olds is kind of inappropriate? I would agree that this also makes school's actions weird... But you are not really helping the issue...
I thought it was going be some thin ass material white shirt... but nope the tshirt shows fuck all
Core Issue wasn't the lack of bra, despite your attempt to will that narrative into existence.
If she's not following the dress code - which includes things like distractions, she would be called out. The bandaid thing is weird, but being brought in for not following some rule is pretty normal behavior - it's not bullying or harassment. That's ridiculous. Like in my high school, you had to be clean shaven or else they'd bring you in and make you shave or possibly send you home if you refuse.
Stigma? I mean they are sexual but they also aren’t something women were supposed to “do something about” in the 80s, 90s, 2000s or today, except when directed by sexists & idiots.
Its the picture from the article you creep. I'm not closely examining her.
Needing to be clean shaven is pretty weird, that definitely wasn't a thing at my High School. But, I really don't see what's wrong with her clothes
It should be okay not to wear a bra, but if they are extremely protruding, she might try to cover them a bit out of decency.
I can see mine in many of my shirts, hope it's not to distracting.
Sure, make efforts to change it. But don't complain when the local high school isn't the tip of the spear on your "Free the Nipple" campaign.
That's the reason why I think the whole situation is kind of weird rather than telling in any way...
Probably not going to go over well on job interview at places that require business casual or professional dress. Or on the job daily for that stuff.
At some point, if you want to be successful you have to conform unless you’re lucky enough to go work for yourself or for some smaller company that fits whatever ways you deviate from the standards that dominate the corporate/professional world.
You guys are pretty ridiculous if you think women should be forced to wear bra's at all times despite being dressed completely appropriately. And 100% agree with Faux, you guys really don't understand how this works in the slightest.
Overall the US... there are so many different school districts throughout each state. We're talking 30,000+ in high schools alone.
I'm not saying she should be forced to wear a bra at all times. I'm saying she should dress appropriately meaning she should wear whatever she needs to in order to ensure her nipples aren't accentuated whilst at school.
With some tops that will mean a bra, with others, it won't. And you want to tell me that me that I'm the one who doesn't know how this shit works?
They should have scolded the kids that were being distracted and told the girl to cover herself the next day.
But IIRC male nipples have for a long time been considered useless, maybe that could help explain why we don't want those covered.
Female nipples are definitely sexual, not so sure about men but i think they also are just way less than women's.
But IIRC male nipples have for a long time been considered useless, maybe that could help explain why we don't want those covered.
As an adult this whole story sounds ridiculous. Seeing someone's nipples through a shirt is no big deal. High school on the other hand can be merciless. I'm not sure why there's this assumption that it was only the male students taunting her though. The story doesn't even imply such a thing. When I was in high school the girls were generally more ruthless to each other than the guys ever were to them. I think she will win the fight with the school board, but I doubt the school can really do anything about the other student's interactions with her outside the class room space.
Post a bare male torso then a bare female torso.
Let us know what happens.
Gaurentee nothing was ever said or ever will be said about the male athletes who’s nipples show through their sportswear.
And they shouldn’t amend their rules to enforce women to wear bras. That would never bullshit.
And they shouldn’t amend their rules to enforce women to wear bras. That would never bullshit.
Completely inappropriate for school officials to comment or even talk to her about this. Humans have nipples. Singling her out for this is making her learning environment hostile, which is illegal.
I'm not asking the school to do as you described, I just find it stupid that the girl got in trouble for not even violating the school's dress code, whereas the other students who were picking on her didn't. Besides, even if having to wear a bra were in the dress code, that doesn't guarantee that the girl's nipples wouldn't be still showing. What would the school do then?
For sure.
My highschool didn't allow boys to wear gym shorts outside of gym class because you could see dickprint too easily lol.
The school district did nothing illegal. She was already singled out by her peers before the administration did anything.
But she did.
Sounds like something that would happen in middle school, not high school.
Idk. I can see how it'd be distracting. Especially with teenage boys. The ones pestering her need to be punished but you can't punish a teenage boy for being distracted by that.
They should have just sent her home if it was that bad. Why embarrass the her?
And it must have been fucking freezing at that school because the picture doesn't raise any alarms.
Idk. I can see how it'd be distracting. Especially with teenage boys. The ones pestering her need to be punished but you can't punish a teenage boy for being distracted by that.
They should have just sent her home if it was that bad. Why embarrass the her?
And it must have been fucking freezing at that school because the picture doesn't raise any alarms.
Not fired, but a woman was sent home at my first job for wearing a tank top and no bra. We occasionally had clients at the office and the company said she didn't adhere to the dress code they'd like to portray to customers.
I'm sure this happens reasonably often
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Sure? You're the one who thinks "dress appropriately" means forcing her to wear a bra 100% of the time.