SAME. I mean, not exactly *rejected* because I generally don’t have the stones to proposition men myself, but I rarely get hit on and have never been in a relationship. I’m 24 and have been on 3 dates in my life, two of which were actually just meeting some guy on Tinder. I didn’t see either of them again (mutual- we…

I love how people are piling on you for making an ironic and obviously hyperbolic comment that you obviously don’t mean on a story where men actually have and are still killing women. Like, dudes, look at the harrowing facts of this real story about real people dying for male entitlement...and then harp on a chick who…

Can’t get on board with the last sentence, but....

I know you have heard this a thousand times BUT:

No.

Power. He wanted to dominate and humiliate them.

One down! How many more to

I had consensual sex with the guy who raped me. I didn’t want to admit to myself that the dude I thought was a great guy was a rapist. And I bought his weak excuse, because I wanted to believe he was a great guy. Women don’t want bad guys, we want good guys. We want good guys so much, we’ll try to convince ourselves…

I also felt really angry...It’s like a rage that has stayed with me. I don’t think you lose that. Nope, you sure don’t. I’ve been living with it for so many years.

YES, THIS. Dress codes make me so fucking angry that I can’t even put together a coherent comment. Suffice it to say I developed early during the era of the hip hugger jeans but before they started making long tank tops to match and in one year grew six inches to become 5'8" 110 pounds at 12 trying to squeeze into…

Mr. Bells is a programmer. He makes a substantial income.

There is no real world lesson about clothes or busyboddies that is more important than learning fucking math. Please stop spinning bullshit scenarios where dress codes amount to a minor suggestion where everyone learns a valuable lesson in the face of yet another study that shows they’re abused to deprive mostly girl,…

School provided free uniforms may help a bit, I’ll admit to that. I still don’t advocate for them though. People are different, and there is no reason children can’t be taught how to respect one another no matter how they are dressed. That starts with administration though, and adults don’t always do a great job of…

Being a black girl in the school system (anywhere really) is a double whammy- black and female. But these dress codes are also classsist as hell- if you add low income on top of all that?

Couldn’t it be argued that being ignored and not being the target of by authority figures is already an rewards based dress-code structure? We are already teaching kids that dressing a certain way comes with benefits, while dressing another way comes with punishments/negative impacts.

Though the entire notion that we…

All the dress code ever did was make me hate my teachers and distract me with its draconian stupidity.

Uniforms also suck because it means kids need an extra set of clothes - uniforms and then weekend or after school clothes. There’s not really an easy solution.

We staged a protest at my HS back in 73' when halter tops were banned. Actually got that overturned. There was also a restriction on ballcaps and capes, I don’t remember anyone getting their knickers twisted about that though.

Final takes: My high school didn’t have a school dress code. My whole class managed to graduate, likely without being too distracted by a classmate’s bare shoulder. Abolish school dress codes TBH.