Ban on 'distracting' miniskirts at school is set to spread | Education | The Observer: "'prejudicial view that dress is somehow a provocation' Anyone who thinks that wearing a skirt that shows one's underpants is not provocative to a hormone- packed teenage boy or a dirty old man is pretending to come from another society. A society where PC actually works and influences people's thinking. Anyway why are they showing their knickers if not for a bit of attention?"
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Showing posts with label decency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decency. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Sleeves: the right not to bare arms
Sleeves: the right not to bare arms
by Emine Saner
In a talk at the Edinburgh book festival on Sunday night, Caitlin Moran said she loved the singer Adele, because she wore sleeves. In fact, Moran is a longtime covered-arm enthusiast. "Why are there no sleeves?" she wrote in the fashion section of her book How to Be a Woman. "If every woman in this country were allowed to cover her upper arms as God intended, prescriptions of Xanax would halve in a fortnight." She writes all this in capitals in a clear sleeve-based rage; I write in crushed resignation with a glimmer of cautious optimism. Because the sleeve issue may be getting some coverage
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