Teen Girl Kicked Out Of Prom So Her Dress Wouldn’t Lead Boys To ‘Think Impure Thoughts’

[moonshaz]

A 17-year-old high schooler from Virginia says she was kicked out of her prombecause the parental chaperones were worried she was inspiring “impure thoughts” among the boys in attendance. Even though her dress adhered to the “fingertip length” dress code requirement, she was asked to leave.

Clare recounts her experience in a guest post on her

Comments

Xander Harris Said It Best

[kate_mct]

"I'm a teenage boy, looking at linoleum makes me think of sex." But seriously, the ones who should be ashamed are the fathers(probably fundamentalist 'family values' Christians) who were ogling teenage girls and getting the girls in trouble for their own hypocrisy.

Re: Xander Harris Said It Best

[emofordino]

i literally came here to make the same comment (xander quote and all). great minds :)

[executivehpfan]

I wanna quote Toby Ziegler here and say that if you show a fourteen year old boy a picture of a lug wrench, his mind will turn to thoughts of lust

[lied_ohne_worte]

Strange how these prudes are constantly thinking about sex, somehow. I agree with this young woman that fathers who have "impure" thoughts about teenagers should look into their own behaviour.

Where I live, the only dress rule schools tend to have is "you should wear some clothes", and "no neo-Nazi clothes". Apart from that, anything in clothes and hair goes. (I mean, I read that US schools can tell people not to dye their hair? That's ludicrous. During one class trip, we all dyed our hair. We had anything from blue to green to reds to one poor sod who ended up with grey hair by accident.) And yet, somehow, the total of teenage pregnancies I ever learned about (someone could of course have had an abortion without people knowing) in any of the schools I went to: Zero.

"Show the average teenage male a condom and his mind will turn to thoughts of lust."

"Show the average teenage male a lug wrench and his mind will turn to thoughts of lust!"

- The West Wing

[tabaqui]

I definitely think this is stuff worth talking about, but this story is a year old.....

[skittish_derby]

MTE

[moonshaz]

Yeah, I didn't realize it was old until after I posted it to the mod queue.

I was looking around at ThinkProgress, and I clicked on a story to read it. After I read that story, I clicked on another link that I happened to see on the same page, and so on. I've been trying to retrace my steps, and I still can't figure out exactly how I stumbled on the prom story, but I did and I didn't think to check the date.

I was debating whether to tell the mods to kill the post, but before I realized it, the story had popped up here and started getting comments, so it seems appropriate to just leave it now. Even though it's old, it's still pertinent, and with "prom season" coming up in the next couple of months, it's even somewhat timely (in an outdated sort of way, lol).

[tabaqui]

Yeah, it's definitely pertinent, because this shite just *keeps happening*.

i wish my mind didn't jump to this crap but it just did....

[sio]

i wonder how many of those sexist assholes are also racist and didn't like the fact that this gorgeous girl has a handsome African-American bf.

Re: i wish my mind didn't jump to this crap but it just did....

[jocelyncs]

I'd bet good money that's exactly what was really wrong. It's the SCANDALOUS site of a white girl dancing with a black boy that is the real "impure" problem in "Mrs. D's" mind. The dress was just a desperate pretense because Mrs. D knew the shitstorm that would come down if she revealed that prejudice in this day and age.

Re: i wish my mind didn't jump to this crap but it just did....

[moonshaz]

This makes perfect sense. After all, any white girl who dates a black man HAS to be a slut, right? #heavysarcasm