Story Highlights A teen says she was kicked out of prom for a too-short dress and suggestive dancing
She says she wasn't dancing and her dress complied with the prom's dress code
The case illustrates concerns of parents who think dress options are too short and skimpy
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(CNN) — Just when you thought you'd heard everything.
A 17-year-old high school senior who was attending a prom for home-schoolers this weekend near Richmond, Virginia, got kicked out, she says, because she was told her dress was too short.
Some of the dads who were chaperoning the prom had complained that her dancing "was too provocative" and that she was going to "cause the young men at the prom to think impure thoughts."
Really? That isn't much of a stretch from "she asked for it" when we blame victims of sexual assault for what they were wearing. Are the thoughts and actions of young men and their fathers really her responsibility?
SimplyTheWorsted on September 12nd, 2019 at 19:56 UTC »
The slideshow of teens who had been barred from their proms felt a little one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others to me...amidst the slut-shaming and heterosexism/gender policing was one girl who was told she couldn't wear a confederate flag themed dress to prom and I'm.kinda...okay with that? There's a false equivalency going on between, like, a kilt as acceptable formal wear, or gender-neutral dress codes, and wearing a thing that is designed to evoke and recreate a symbol of racist violence and systemic oppression, right?
HugOWar on September 12nd, 2019 at 19:46 UTC »
Girls en masse should start complaining that standard pieces of men's clothing causes us impure thoughts.
Basketball shorts? Impure thoughts. Fitted polos? Way too sexy. Tight suit pants? I don't know how I'm gonna keep my hands off dat ass.
DConstructed on September 12nd, 2019 at 19:19 UTC »
"A prom for homeschoolers"