Two girls at Manatee High School in Bradenton, Florida, showed up to a football game with painted bodies.
Now a controversy swirled because they were booted from the game, while boys with painted bodies were allowed to stay!
"People think we did it to be rebellious senior teenagers but we did it because we wanted to show school spirit," student Monica CummingS said. "That's all we did it for."
School district policy states that it is up to administrators to decide whether something is appropriate or not and in this case, the principal decided that the girls' outfits were not appropriate.
Once the girls came in, there were a number of people who came up to the principal, the assistant principal and other school administrators who were very upset over their appearance, school spokeswoman Margi Nanney said. "We have never had complaints about the men or the boys."
Was it sexism or just an appropriate response to indecency? Should they have been allowed to stay? What do you think? Link
Rediculous.
Get a freaking life already. How many examples of "Public Education Sucks" do we really need rubbed in our taxpayer faces?
it's either stop both or allow both... IMHO I think it's a great way to share the school/team spirit...
rock on girls... and guys
Personally, I would find painted man-boobs much more offensive.
I'm guessing that the school will implement a no-shirt, no-admittance rule for both genders as a result of the backlash from this incident.
Thanks L! Now I have to go scrub that image out of my brain with soap.
I bet you get all the ladies with that attitude.
"man-boobs are more offensive" - funny how sexist that comment is, but it's okay to be sexist when you're talking about the male body.
I don't think these girls were sluts, but they probably wanted the attention.
What has been imagined cannot be unimagined! :)
The average age in the town is so high the new 65-year-old retirees are called 'kids'....
I suppose that's one way that there is a difference; the girls are perceived as a sex symbol, while the boys are continuing the sexist tradition of masculine sports obsession. In Europe, breasts (both male and female) aren't nearly as sexualized. The way they are perceived is the problem.
The sports bra idea is a good compromise, i'd say. But it's totally unfair.
Hah, I graduated from that very school in 1989. They probably still have the same principal.
The dress code there has always been weirdly inconsistent. Example: cheerleaders could wear their uniforms even though the skirts are way too short by the rules.
"Hah, I graduated from that very school in 1989. They probably still have the same principal."
Yep, I'm not surprised at all that this happened in Manatee county. But I would be even LESS surprised if it happened in Sarasota county.