School Spirit
Kel sent me a link to this article about two girls kicked out of a high school football game for wearing body paint on their entire top halves, plus a bra.
When the girls showed up at the game, several people complained to school officials about their “attire”. A spokeswoman for the school said “We have never had complaints about the men or the boys.”
Hmm…interesting. When I first saw this, I was thinking “yeah, that’s really not appropriate,” although I have seen fans dressed in the exact same way on a televised professional game, so it’s not like this is a first. It may be a first for this high school, but these girls didn’t invent anything new.
The question here is that had they shown up in just a bra, would that be ok? My response would be “no” simply because the school policy surely does not allow girls to come to school wearing just a bra for their top and the football game was clearly a school function.
On the flip side, tho…I wonder how many times the boys have done this at that very school and not been reprimanded. Surely there is a school policy requiring them to wear a shirt to school events. Is this a double standard?
October 17th, 2007 at 10:21 am
OK - just re-read the article. Apparently the boys with body paint WERE allowed to stay.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I find it a double-standard that it’s considered OK for men to go topless at the beach, but not women. I don’t really understand why Americans are so hung up about boobs, personally.
But at school functions, I most certainly think that if young ladies have to wear shirts, men should too. It’s only perpetuating sexism to do anything else.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Wow, that is a double standard. I find it ironic you are discussing it on this site, though. I’m willing to bet dollars to donuts that it was feminist women who complained and got these girls booted. Feminist women who thought it was demeaning for these girls to do body paint and wear swimsuit tops to the game. I know the story didn’t say who specifically complained but would any guy in his right mind complain about two attractive girls showing up to a football game in swimsuit tops? Maybe if it’s a guy totally whipped by his wife he would complain, but a real man wouldn’t complain on his own.
It’s amazing you all talk about the double standards between boys and girls but a lot of feminists perpetuate some standards! I actually feel bad for those girls but n the bright side they’ll have a lot of public sympathy and the attention they receive may help them in the short term; maybe with some body paint modeling or a pictorial in Maxim. Yeah, that would be tight!
October 18th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Okay, these girls were in FLORIDA and those aren’t bras, they’re SWIMSUIT tops. WITH shorts. They weren’t wearing skimpy thongs or anything, they wore swimsuit tops to a school game in Florida–where it’s warm.
If they would have been bras, to me that’s a bit different, but they weren’t wearing lingerie…they were wearing swimwear and shorts.
If these girls were in college, no one would’ve thought anything of it, I think. If the boys at the school can paint their entire torsos, then why not the girls? They covered their “parts” so what’s the big deal?
That’s my take on it, anyway.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
OK - yeah I guess they are swimsuit tops. My bad. I agree, though, everything was covered, so why not?
October 18th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Should the boys be allowed to wear Speedos to the game?
And why assume it was feminists who reported the girls. What about scandalized mothers?
October 18th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
You are probably right, Misty. And, I was just kidding about the second half of my original post. I really do think those girls got a raw deal. I don’t know about the speedos. I’m all for personal freedom and I don’t like to tell other people what they can or can’t wear. But, any guy doing that may be just subjecting himself to ridicule.
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:47 am
I think this is totally a double standard…they are wearing swimsuit tops…IN FLORIDA and trying to show school spirit…thats horrible.
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