AFRO-NETS> Ban on mini-skirts in schools (7)

[Johanne Sundby <johanne.sundby@samfunnsmed.uio.no>]

Ban on mini-skirts in schools (7)
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Sorry to be very upset by some of the comments. They are very sexist. 
Miniskirts are fashion or just plain dresses and don't always mean 
that a woman is ready for something. When I was a teenager, some
school headmistress made us kneel and she measured the distance from
the floor and to the skirt hem. It was very humiliating. We were 
just doing the "fashion thing" and had not any sex in mind. That is
just a "male assumption". 

But why do girls and women always have to
be the ones that have to take the dress code responsibility for 
sexual behaviour and desires in both sexes. Like a veil or a long
skirt or what? Does anyone think that a male sportsman wearing 
shorts is a sexual object at all times? 

An ironic comment: Maybe alock on all male genital organs could be 
more appropriate for this epidemic to fit with this rhetoric!.


Johanne Sundby, 
Section for Medical Anthropology,
University of Oslo, 
Institute of Community Medicine.
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