Let me tell you something about today. Today was the hottest day of the year in New Jersey, I woke up sweating despite air conditioning because it was 95 degrees. Now, i did what any logical person would do and I put on my favorite pair of shorts so i wouldn’t be sweating throughout the day.
Even in my shorts i was sweating my balls off but I went through half of my day as normal, no boys stared at my ass or tried to grope me in public yet when i went to the the cafeteria a teacher told me to go to the office because he finds my shorts inappropriate. I head down to the office to find a group of girls wearing shorts and skirts sitting in a small room in the office, we where all ordered to call our parents or to change into the clothes they had offered us from the school store. These items of clothing included sweatpants and a large heavy sweatshirt. I obviously refused to where those because it was 95 degrees and when you are sweating the key to cool down is NOT to put on more clothes. They told me I would have to stay in that room the whole day if it came down to it.
I was able to leave the office when my friend gave me a pair of yoga pants. The man who made me go down to the office brought down several other girls as I was leaving, at this point they didn’t care how long the shorts where they just sent everyone who was wearing a pair down. They warned me that if I put my shorts back on they would right me up.
I put them back on anyway because just walking down the hallway in those yoga pants made me faint, dizzy,and extremely hot. Thats the main issue, it is hot enough for people to pass out in school but to the school system they would rather a girl suffer from a heat stroke then to have a boy become turned on. My shorts don’t say “COme fuck me in the middle of class” they say,”Its warm out”
The sexualizing of innocent students is not okay
Risking students health is not okay
and tHE LACK OF FEMINISM IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL NEVER BE OKAY
Today was literally horrible
I hate our school so much
I seriously don’t get how schools can expect to enforce that length code anymore when you honestly can’t buy shorts longer than this in most places anymore. I only own boy’s shorts because I’m not a fan of short shorts on me. It’s like we want all girls to wear these short shorts in order to fit our beauty standards EXCEPT IN SCHOOL WHERE BOYS MIGHT GET TURNED ON. or some shit like that.
you know, the sad thing is, in schools in montenegro, no one would even THINK about wearing these shorts to school. not even think about it. because it’s strictly against the school code. i remember when i was in high school, this girl in my class came in one of those shirts that fall on one shoulder and she got sent home. however, the official school code says that boys can’t wear shorts either, or those that come to the knee, idk how you call them, but have to wear long pants as in jeans; still, if they do come to school dressed in shorts, no one says anything. it’s just sad.
As someone who lives in this kind of weather year round, I see this happen a lot. In fact, right before I started middle school, we had this stupid dress code enforced because “girls” were wearing short shorts and shirts that were low cut or rose up a little high in the back. I remember when asking about the need for the dress code, there was only one, ONE, person that remarked on the fact that the boys were wearing baggy pants below their butt and shirts with vulgar words scrawled across them. Everything else was because the girls were wearing skimpy clothing.
And that dress code was hell to follow. Solid shirts that were not sleeveless, pants, skirts/dresses couldn’t be above the knee, and we had to have belts on. In my three years of middle school and four years of high school, I remember boys getting wrote up for their pants sagging but girls got the worst of it. I got sent to the office because I had stripes on a short sleeve shirt (but you could barely see them they nearly matched the shade of the shirt) and was forced to changed into a long-sleeve shirt that I sweated in for the rest of the day.
Boys can have sagging pants and that isn’t a distraction, but show a little cleavage leg, or a little of your back and you are preventing people from learning. Excuse me for trying to look good and feel good about my body while also not wanting to die of heat stroke or bath in sweat.
Neat moment at the Webbys last night. Fresh off the $1.1 billion sale of his company, David Karp was there with his mother, Barbara. Though I’d never met her before, Barbara came over to my seat and gave me the world’s biggest hug. She kept saying: “I am so, so proud of you.”
I said to David: “Your mom just made me feel like the most special guy in the world.”
He said: “That’s how she’s made me feel my whole life.”
(Source: bubonickitten)
» Re-Heated Coffee: so i’ve decided i need to be more realistic about my weight loss goals...
so i’ve decided i need to be more realistic about my weight loss goals so i’ve decided to separate it into two 10 lbs increments and then a 5lbs increment so right now i’m trying to lose 10 lbs. then once that ten is gone, then the next ten etc.
i’m annoyed at how much weight i gained this…
Hey, you should do a fashion show of the clothes you’re giving away for me on skype one day and I’ll take the ones you don’t want anymore! I’ll even pay for shipping! I need a lot of grown-up work clothes so I’m doing whatever I can to get them cheap.
I don’t like being a grown up. Urgh.
When Paul was inducted into the Rock’n Roll Hall of Fame, Stella wore this shirt in support of her Dad. A few years later when Stella won an award for Fashion, Paul wore his :)
That just put such a smile on my face.
