January 25, 2006
Male student wears skirts
I just read an amusing article about a male student wearing skirts in protest of his school’s ban of shorts this time of year. He is merely trying to point out the unfairness of the school’s ban of shorts while girls are still allowed to wear short skirts. The school tried to stop him from wearing skirts because of it being “disruptive,” but he ultimately won and will be wearing skirts until April rolls around and shorts are allowed again.
This brings up an interesting point about male and female rights. Although there is no enforcement outside of this specific class, my American Government II instructor, a middle-aged woman, is a real “Nazi” about hats being worn indoors; she will not allow men to wear a hat in the class because it is “disrespectful” according to “well-established” rules of etiquette. However, if a girl wants to wear a hat, it’s just fine. Is that ridiculously unfair or what? Thus, while girls are allowed to wear ridiculously short skirts, men can’t even wear a hat to keep their heads warm in the 63°F classroom because doing so is “rude.”
Comment by Taku of Miso — Posted January 26, 2006 at 22:21
Wow… Men wearing skirts for a couple months just to prove a point… That’s a new one in my book.
But that hat thing did remind me of something… A couple years back, on the first day of school, and one of the teachers just swooped down and took our hats. At our annual school assembly, our principal announced new rules about hats, saying they can never be worn in the school. In short, a teacher took our hats on rules that had’nt ben told to the students.
But then again, that’s more Teacher VS. Student. Eh, whatever.
Comment by Ben — Posted January 30, 2006 at 22:35
It’s obviously because the teachers are extremely lustful. Like Kimura-sensei…
Not that you have any clue as to who I’m talking about.
Comment by Monica — Posted February 3, 2006 at 09:55
I heard about that on the news. When I was in school, the rule was that shorts couldn’t be more than 2 inches above the knee. Why are shorts totally banned? I don’t remember it ever being warm enough to wear shorts in the winter, but this year it is. (I wore Capri pants the other day)
As for the Girl v Boy thing, that’s weird. I believe the skirt rule was about the same for us, and nobody was allowed to wear hats in class.