Women as fragile vessels

[gowlerk 2,249]

Thankfully SCOTUS will not take this case of a school in NC that wants to require female students to wear skirts...

 

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case challenging a skirts-only dress code for girls at a North Carolina charter school, letting stand a lower court ruling that the school's dress code violated federal law.

At the center of the case is Charter Day School, which operates independently but is designated as a public school under North Carolina state law and receives 95 percent of its funding from the government. Charter Day School says it seeks to "emphasize traditional values" and enforces a dress code that requires girls to wear skirts, jumpers, or skorts. Female students wearing skirts, the school's founder said, preserves the idea that a woman is a "fragile vessel that men are supposed to take care of and honor."

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1183781580/supreme-court-dress-code

[kallend 2,106]

  On 6/27/2023 at 3:48 AM, gowlerk said:

Female students wearing skirts, the school's founder said, preserves the idea that a woman is a "fragile vessel that men are supposed to take care of and honor."

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1183781580/supreme-court-dress-code

The founder is Baker Mitchell.

 

I suspect my 75 y/o "fragile vessel" of a wife, who works out three times a week with her personal trainer, would handily beat him to a pulp if he suggested that to her.

[riggerrob 643]

Sounds like they are trying to lower standards for their female students.

I say that we should hold female students to a higher standard than "fragile vessels."

I do not understand how "fragile vessels" can cook, clean, manage a household, raise children, balance a budget, drive kids to soccer practice, etc.

The last thing that I want to deal with is weak, lazy, girly, sissified dainty flowers in skirts.

My attitude is based upon too many years dealing with women as a soldier, air force technician, skydiving instructor and city bus driver.

What female students wear is totally secondary. Just limit over-sexualized clothing since it is difficult enough for teenaged boys to concentrate while they are going through puberty.

[normiss 851]

The boys at the school should start wearing skirts.

 

[riggerrob 643]

Agreed!

If girls can wear skirts to class, then I insist on my right - as a grumpy, old, gray-bearded part Scotsman - to wear my Utilikilt or McLaughlan family tartan kilt to school.