The Cleavage Ban
August 11th 2006 08:25
www.morguefile.com
There is a new dress code in Arlington, Texas and boys, you are not going to like it.
It is now against the law for girls to wear low-cut tops or anything with a “plunging neckline” in the classroom.
And how exactly does one determine whether or not a top is too low-cut? Well, it’s a simple test really. If the area between a girl’s breasts is visible, then you can be sure, she’ll be sent home.
Arlington School Board President, Sherri Wade, says that young boys are getting too distracted in class and are “unfortunately...looking at more than their English books.” It seems all that staring, ogling and drooling that you boys do, has finally backfired.
But it's not just the boys who are angry about this one. Teenage girls are just as mad. The fact is that we have generations of girls being raised by Christina Aguilera instead of Marcia Brady. They are choosing to wear revealing outfits because not only is the world around them normalising it, but also because many of them want such attention from their male counterparts.
I, on the other hand, am a child from the "Saved By the Bell" years. I was raised by Kelly Kapowski who sits right in the middle of the Aguilera-Brady spectrum. I think that girls should be able to express their femininity however they want as long as they maintain self-respect in doing so. And judging by some of the schoolgirls I see around Sydney, I'm not so sure that self-respect exists anymore.
So perhaps such a law is needed not only to assist the boys focus in class, but also to assist young girls realise that life isn't about your rack.
Is such a restriction going to work to the benefit of the education system? Let's hope so. Otherwise, we could just be giving male principals a ticket to a free perve.
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