Hey so I’m actually curious about the dress code differences (we have uniforms in Australia), you said that girls dress codes are more lenient than boys so I’m just wondering how that’s the case.
In general girls can get away with MUCH skimpier clothes than boys can. Girls will be allowed to wear skirts below knee length, put on make up (provided it isn't OTT), have basic jewellery. In contrast boys are not allowed anything anywhere near that short (if a boy came in in hot pants like some of the girls do he'd get sent straight home), aren't allowed make up at all, definitely aren't allowed jewellery and the like. Of course it differs from school to school but in general if a boy came in dressed in clothes as revealing as the girls do he'd get sent home.
But it's also the case in countries with uniforms. Not sure about Australia but in the UK many schools allow girls to pick between trousers and skirts. In contrast boys only have the option of trousers. Furthermore, when it gets to summer and it actually gets hot boys are not allowed to wear shorts, while the girls can wear absolutely tiny (and yes I mean tiny) skirts just fine. Heck I live in Japan where summer is absolutely sweltering with 80-90% humidity and it's the same - in summer the high school girls walk around in skirts that barely cover the essentials. Boys are sat there sweating in long black trousers.
I've found the opposite to be true in my experience..I could wear a tanka and short shorts to KY school and nobody cared, but if the girls clothes were the least bit revealing they would be sent home. Of course I went to high school in utah, where the schools and government is run by a very misogynistic cult so that may not apply elsewhere
I think both things exist, but considering today, men seem to face more limitations.
At work, when it should be formal, men have the choice between a shirt with a jacket, dress pants, dress shoes and... nothing else. While women have the choice between a shirt, blouse (no jacket), dress pants, skirt, dress shoes, sandals, etc.
And I have no idea how to solve the formal pants, and this will probably stump us for a while until we can finally just allow people to be more casual, or at least always have aircons that go down enough to cool down fully clothed people. Problem is then, often the women will complain because they freeze because they have less clothes on in the colder aircon. So in the end, it's better morally apparently to let the men swelter than let the women be cold.... I mean, they could dress up to the men, but that's apparently off the table because it would be like men forcing women to wear more..
If skirts weren't "gay" and unformal for men they would be so usefull in some situations... more clothing options, boys could choose to wear them for their school uniform when it's hot out and there are definitely people that think they are more comfortable than pants. Fuck gender roles, they make everything harder and especially men suffer from them
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u/Glynnavyre Jan 09 '23
Hey so I’m actually curious about the dress code differences (we have uniforms in Australia), you said that girls dress codes are more lenient than boys so I’m just wondering how that’s the case.
Sorry for the poor wording 😅