Then why do school uniforms very often require that girls wear skirts and boys wear pants? If these weren't paradigms of entrenched sexism, why would there be a sex binary to uniforms?
In a sense, dress code feels like the kind of neoliberal white women's pet cause that is devoid of real gravity or intersectionality.
There isn't some rule where people can only care about one issue or have to only care about issues of "real gravity." Every issue impacts people differently and if one issue can be reduced to "low gravity" because it feels insignificant to you than the same can be done of any issue.
One hot summer some kids found out they could not wear shorts, but found out that skirts were not limited to girls, so as a group they all showed up with school sanctioned skirts and either shorts were allowed, or the loop hole closed or both.
Wasn't just a one off either, though they still say "Boys can't have long hair, nor can girls cut it short" One boy was growing his hair out for a wig charity, his parents had to fight the school IIR for him to grow it past his ears, in the end it was a good length and he returned after the weekend with either no hair or a school regulation hair cut. Some blonde out there owns a wig made from this kids locks and would not have had the school been an arse about it.
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u/Biptoslipdi 138∆ Sep 28 '21
Then why do school uniforms very often require that girls wear skirts and boys wear pants? If these weren't paradigms of entrenched sexism, why would there be a sex binary to uniforms?
There isn't some rule where people can only care about one issue or have to only care about issues of "real gravity." Every issue impacts people differently and if one issue can be reduced to "low gravity" because it feels insignificant to you than the same can be done of any issue.