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In a guest post on her sister's blog, Richmond, Va., a high school senior named Clare related how one of the women organizing the dance disapproved of her dress, even after checking it met the "fingertip length" dress code requirement. When she got into the ballroom, Clare, who is 5'9", was amused to find herself surrounded by shorter girls in much shorter dresses.
On a balcony above the dance floor, a group of dads was, she said "ogling and talking amongst themselves," which grossed out Clare and her friends a little bit.
After the kids had been "swaying with the music and talking and enjoying ourselves" for a while, the same chaperone who had complained about Clare's dress pulled her aside to tell her that some of the dads felt her dancing was "too provocative" and liable to cause "impure thoughts."
Clare protested that she hadn't even been dancing, and was told once again that her regulation finger-length dress was too short. She was kicked out of the dance, and her friends decided to go with her.
http://gawker.com/teen-girl-ejected-from-prom-because-horny-dads-cant-sto-1575694507?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Baitball Blogger
(46,740 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)TYY
BronxBoy
(2,286 posts)catbyte
(34,406 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)adigal
(7,581 posts)Whose daughters promise to be virgins and their creepo fathers give them a ring.
If you ask me, that's a bit incestual. Yech. And I cring when girls and grown women say, "I'm daddy's little girl." Double yech.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)My wife and I were often asked. We never did, but I knew a few that did it.
Mind you, I'm not defending these cretins' actions in any way.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)FSogol
(45,491 posts)Bet she would have had fun at her local public school's prom.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)is this really any surprise. If she had worn a burka with the words evolution is real she would have been kicked out as well.
FSogol
(45,491 posts)skeevy family values crowd.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Disgusting creeps.
temporary311
(955 posts)Like that's going to happen with these Purity Ball types.
Lochloosa
(16,066 posts)I showed up at prom with my boyfriend, and I was wearing the really cute silver dress....
http://www.hannahettinger.com/fuck-the-patriarchy-guest-post-by-clare/
lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)It was her Senior Prom fer crisakes, a once in a lifetime event,
and some dipshit rednecks had to drop a turd in the punch bowl.
No further discussion necessary.
temporary311
(955 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)Assholes.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)MountainLaurel
(10,271 posts)Wouldn't surprise me a bit.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)My first thoughts exactly! This wasn't about her dress. It was about her date.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)Harper Valley PTA
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)Her dress is really cute and she is in no way inappropriate. They should have kicked out all the dads.
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jmowreader
(50,560 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)They don't want anyone to think they are dancing.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Call CPS too. Have them check out the homes. Creepy!
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Old men salivating over younger daughters and blaming them for their impure thoughts.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)From the Gawker link:
"I'm not responsible for some perverted 45 year old dad lusting after me because I have a sparkly dress on and a big ass for a teenager," she concludes. "And if you think I am, then maybe you're part of the problem."
whathehell
(29,067 posts)It fuels the Double Standard nicely, too: Male = Stud. Female = Slut.
It's ugly, not to mention stupid as hell.
get the red out
(13,467 posts)What can you say? They blame females for everything. The dirty old men have a get out of the cold shower free card.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)Require all women to wear Burkas in public.
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I suspect THIS is the real "problem".
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)It was a home school prom full of fundy fuckwits.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,184 posts)sakabatou
(42,159 posts)0rganism
(23,957 posts)if you need a scantily-clad teenager dancing to arouse "impure thoughts" either your imagination is weak & flimsy or you aren't trying hard enough.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Oh they dont.
Unless of course it is the home school prom..Color me shocked that the home school prom is full of a bunch of prudish fundies.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Is this a purity ball or something?
Egnever
(21,506 posts)What a shock home schoolers folks are fundy asshats....So hard to believe.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)Last thing these perverted degenerates want is their kids talking to a teacher about the abuse.
When I see a male home schooler, a male bashing porn or a male pushing religious fundamentalism I immediately think ..."This guy is probably a child rapist"
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)That's the term psychologists use to describe that phenomenon.
It's basically "dost protest too much." If someone is screaming non-stop against porn...you just know that guy's got a hard drive full of it at home.
RussBLib
(9,020 posts)that's probably what got the white female ejected. hangin' with a black dude?!
eppur_se_muova
(36,271 posts)gotta keep those women down, in the name of God.
JI7
(89,252 posts)like a solid color it actually looks like it could be an everyday conservative workplace dress.
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)But when balls are held for pleasure they're the balls that I like best.
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)Last edited Tue May 13, 2014, 06:04 PM - Edit history (1)
Iggo
(47,558 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)If the story is true, then it's an outrage. But I'll wait for confirmation before being outraged.