http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/guest/why-yoga-pants-are-incredibly-dangerous-to-today-s-youth/article_be9fb59b-9bcd-596e-bbab-5d13d6d3988e.html
I found this article while just scrolling through Facebook and it really appealed to me not only because I love my yoga pants but because I really agree with what she is saying and because I feel like I can really relate to how she felt in high school. We are teaching girls that they are asking for it if they wear certain clothes, that when they wear certain things they are taking away from boys "learning environments". Instead we should be teaching boys to respect women and their bodies and that "boys will be boys" is not a valid excuse for anything. After reading this article I felt like I had be a victim of this brain wash our society is calling a norm. I have vivid flashbacks to being publicly humiliated for wearing a skirt to school and if that was punishment enough I was sent home or given lunch detention for the week. This article made me look back and think about my learning environment, by my junior year of high school I was wearing sweats every other day just to avoid being punished and avoid comments from teacher and the opposite sex. It brought back a lot of emotions but I loved reading what she had to say and I definitely thought this was worth sharing.
No comments:
Post a Comment