Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against 'no shorts' policy

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10. I think stick up the behind authoritarians use dress codes as a way to impose control

and to oppress people with no power.

I agree that people should dress neatly and be clean and reasonably well groomed at school or work, but nitpicky rules that ignore real life conditions are absurd.

I think of boys in my school in the 1960s who were suspended because their hair was long enough to merely touch their ears! Or girls today who are not allowed into their prom because their gown has spaghetti straps or doesn't cover their collar bone.

Sure, I can see having rules that require prom dresses cover more than a Las Vegas showgirl's costume, but some of the dresses I have seen that have gotten a girl tossed out of prom are perfectly decent. In fact, it is pretty much impossible to even find a prom dress that complies with the rules imposed by some schools.