Thank you! ETA: Signed. :)

It is considered slutty to walk around in short shorts.

Scootch closer! have extra government coverage because I'm Native... So I have dental, eye and prescription coverage. As well as chiro and massage.

right? all the crap they come up with to argue against socialized healthcare, we're already dealing with. death panels? groups of shadowy, unaccountable people with the authority to decide who gets treatment and who doesn't? yeah, we already have that.

i had a canadian friend once. we used to gather around her to hear tales of healthcare and pensions. such beautiful, unimaginable stories.

You cannot pay to see a regular medical doctor (unless you have a Quebec medical card, or are in Quebec with a different province's medical card, in which case Qc is a jerk province and makes you pay upfront and "get reimbursed" later). You can pay for specific specialized doctors (psychiatrist, plastic surgeon) but…

Can you pay and see a private doctor in Canada if you want to for some reason? Is it like a super wealthy impatient people only thing? Or a thing at all? I just moved to an area that is a medical desert. A medical barren dusty prairie, if you will. For example, the closest drug treatment (or cochlear implant surgeon,…

I'm really glad now that my high school had no dress code. And I seriously mean NO dress code. People (not many, but there were some) wore shirts that had the word "fuck" on them. I even did it one day, and my physics teacher told me my shirt was cool (it was a band shirt!). A girl showed up one day with a scarf tied…

I think that the debate regarding school dress codes needs to focus on the "why" more than the "what." When you start with the assumption that dress codes are necessary, you wind up getting tangled up arguing the "common sense" of hair color and "strap width." We need less institutional shaming of the human body…

My high school had absolutely no school dress code (besides not allowing hats because of gang affiliation/it was a place to hide razor blades) and I'm pretty sure everyone there was just as distracted as teenagers with crazy hormones would have been if tank tops or something hadn't been allowed.

I realize you're probably going to delete this reply, like you did Not-you's, but the idea that any of the examples of dress codes pertain solely to having students cover their privates is a laughable strawman. There are larger, gendered issues in this discussion and you know it.

A lot of people pointed out to me that there's a huge issue with the fingertip rule. It only works if you are proportioned accordingly. Some people's "fingertips" extend to different places. Some hit mid thigh, some hit above the knee, etc. That creates a unfair standard of judgement, you know? It's telling people…

There is no "common sense" when it comes to dress codes, only institutional and cultural norms. These vary from place to place.

Right? Should we be letting men get drivers' licenses if they can't concentrate at the slightest glimpse of skin or bra strap?

I got in trouble one time in high school, for wearing a skirt, tank top, and flip flops. Because when it gets hot in Chicago, it gets really damn hot and humid. Teacher looked at me and said "holmeag, you do know you're violating three dress code rules right now, right?" To which I responded "uh...no? My skirt is…

I don't buy the idea that we need to force children to dress a particular way so that they will know how to fit in when they get out of school.

Now here's a girl body story I can get behind. Woah! That sounded creepy!

yeah, all Africans are far too poor and desperate to care about fashion. ALL OF THEM.

So you have traveled all over Africa talking to little girls about school dress codes?

Right and so that means it's entirely illegitimate for a young adult girl in Canada to assert herself when she feels she's been treated unfairly. We shouldn't encourage teenagers to stand up for themselves and challenge the status-quo in a peaceful way because it's really hard for kids in Africa?