School dress codes reinforce the message that women’s bodies are dangerous

[laundry_queen]

1. This irritates me to no end

They are now doing all this stuff in my kids' schools. I finally mentioned it to the one school in the communications we got when this school year started. My daughter was upset because she has really long arms and they want her shorts to be longer than the tip of her fingers - even in phys ed! Her fingers reach nearly to her knees. She doesn't own any shorts that long (just try and find some that long). Oh, and no tank tops either. Oh, and t-shirts better not have a wide neck opening lest a bra strap shows. WTF? None of that was an issue when I went to school (SAME town, some of the same teachers even). So I mentioned to the teacher I thought all of these rules they spent explaining to the girls was body shaming. I haven't had a reply as of yet. It's ridiculous - my workplace has less strict rules. And I am an accountant who works in a head office!