Related, laws being passed to protect people from being discriminated against on the basis of their hair.
https://apnews.com/article/hairstyle-texture-discrimination-race-and-ethnicity-d6fd44b0226d4cd2d089953972377654
Honestly just fuck everything about sumptuary laws.
The district has argued that George’s long hair, which he wears to school in tied and twisted locs on top of his head, violates its policy because it would fall below his shirt collar, eyebrows or earlobes when let down.
Really curious what their rationale is for shoulder-length girls hair being okie-dokie but boys do it and suddenly the learning environment falls apart.
Their rationale is literally just that girls should have long hair and boys shouldn't. That boys having long hair looks "unprofessional."
Source: I went to a Christian high school. I got in trouble over this all the time. My hair is past my waist now.
got forced into that during school too, problem is that both Jesus and Mohammed had long hair
they're probably gender essentialist christian fash or something. Texas is a hellhole, not because of any curse on the land, and even some of the people are okay, but if the devil is real his hand guides the power systems of that abyss.Idk apparently there's a whole thing about how jesus is depicted in art and how that reflects what contemporary people believe about the past.
ah yeah that makes sense, i wonder if current contemporary artistic depictions will have like short hair and look well groomed
Women are naturally born with long hair, and men can never grow hair longer than a couple inches. That's just a basic biological fact. Are you really going to believe your lying eyes?
I actually haven't managed to find my hair's maximum length, it'll grow down past my ass and I have to trim it back because I keep sitting on it
Wouldn't be surprised if they had similar limitations on jewelry, skirts, and dresses that arbitrarily limit only boy's options (and I suspect they would probably apply those rules to trans girls as well). Its almost like its more about boomers trying to enforce their weird traditional gender and racial norms onto people rather than actually trying to make an healthy learning environment.
And at the same time they're harassing girls with rulers and berating them for having a bra strap showing.
Like there's some arguments to be made for dress codes, but very few good ones.
But that's probably because teens dressed like that distract them and that makes them look bad, but its definitely the underaged girls fault for dressing that way. /s
Its almost like its more about boomers trying to enforce their weird traditional gender and racial norms onto people rather than actually trying to make an healthy learning environment.
Yup, its exactly like that.
not even when boys do it, just when boys are physically capable of doing it, sounds like he kept it tied back while at school to appease these fucking kkkrackers
Why can a high school dictate what hair styles their students can wear? What an incredibly weird and arbitrary rule.
Was Foucault right all along?
Yeah, oppressive dress codes are the norm. It mostly targets girls and minorities - Girls get harassed for basically everything, especially length of skirts, makeup, jewelry, visible bra straps (RAEG), while minorities get harassed for anything that distinguishes them from whites. It's not universal by any means, there are school districts that are chill, but there are also lots that are absolute shitheads.
It's not universal by any means, there are school districts that are chill, but there are also lots that are absolute shitheads.
That's the issue with the fragmented authoritarianism that comes with American style federalism. Combined with how schools are run pseudo-democratically with a sizable and energized fascist voter base and even your cool, chill school districts can suddenly become extremely reactionary! Fun!
I'm not american so I had no idea this was a thing. It sounds completely absurd to me, what a strange country
The hair style aspect does scream private school to me since those were the only schools I remember having rules about hair. We had dress codes for public school but nothing ever about hair. But I wasn't in the south so I have no clue what they get up to there
General dress codes I can understand to some extent. You can at least change out of that when you get home, but you can't grow out your hair every afternoon.
I'm a black person in America who has freeform dreadlocks, and I'm not even in school nor do I work in public. Believe me when I say that I'm amazed how people still have a tendency to make comments on the unconventionality of my natural black hair even though it's absolutely none of their fucking business. Early on into developing my freeform dreadlocks, I had an older white man in a psych ward tell me "Did you know a nurse can give you a comb for your hair?". Good God, if I had reacted impulsively, I would've still been in that psych ward to this very day. He might not have said it in bad faith, but either way, the point is that it's not his fucking business at all!
I've also gotten this from black people too, mostly from my conservative Afro-Caribbean family who have said racist things about working class black Americans, believing themselves to be better than them, so that checks out. Once again, this is why I'm glad to be no contact with a lot of people that raised me or people that I grew up with.
That's it, that's the """offending""" hairstyle? I knew a guy with fuckin liberty spikes in high school and nobody gave a shit, but somehow this guy's hair is too much?
Brush said having different hair length restrictions for boys and girls “does not constitute discrimination”
Fuck off lmao
I had to sit in the back when my hair was up cause it blocked people's view. But as someone who had (and still still has) cool punk hair, it was commented on (generally positively, a lot of my teachers were in their teens or 20s in the 80s and were pretty stoked to see some kids were still punk). I wore a studded vest, patched up crust pants and band shirts with the collar and sleeves ripped off every damn day. Between the scene kids and the last remnants of the Marilyn Manson style goths I was just another different kind of weird. The kind that got shit on the least too, we couldn't be classified as emo and didn't have the applied vulnerability associated with the label
Was this the kid in Katy or another one?
It wild imagining them being so draconian about boys hair falling passed their ears or whatever when my rural school in BFE, TX let me have hair down to the small of my back. (Even outside the racism element/wouldn’t surprise me if that’s precisely why it became an issue in the first place)
