Comments on Me Versus the Blog: The one-armed man couldn't wear pants

This one in SC made it into the media, but unpubli...

2009-06-09T14:51:42.235-05:00

This one in SC made it into the media, but unpublicized similar incidents have continued to happen in recent years at who-knows-how-many other school districts in the country (probably most in the south), unfortunately. Some of the schools have quietly changed the policy after enough students boycott graduation; some just keep right on with the misogynistic discrimination regardless.

As the AMC Network was made to play only "US ...

2009-06-08T14:29:42.076-05:00

As the AMC Network was made to play only "US Marshals", I find myself using that quote on a weekly basis.

RE: MC Because it was a stupid rule. To not let he...

2009-06-05T15:10:51.438-05:00

RE: MC
Because it was a stupid rule. To not let her graduate because she didn't wear a dress? That's just a school being steeped in it's own self-righteousness.

RE: Anonymous 1:42
The argument wasn't about discrimination. It was about the rule being dumb. It was. And now it's no more, but the school officials look like bullies. Was this fight worth it? I

This is just a good example of what goes on all th...

2009-06-05T13:42:37.212-05:00

This is just a good example of what goes on all the time . . . if you don't like something and have a way to wiggle discrimination into it, go for it. The "power", in this case the school, will always give in to avoid the legal hassles. If the school had forced her to wear a dress, women rights would have been all over it for sexual discrimination.

Why couldn't she just wear the dress? Is it r...

2009-06-05T13:36:53.821-05:00

Why couldn't she just wear the dress? Is it really that big of a deal? Sometimes we don't get to have it our way (not even at BK evidently).

RE: Anne They'll probably start with a small g...

2009-06-05T12:45:34.260-05:00

RE: Anne
They'll probably start with a small group like Mixed-race, Bla-sian tweens who equally love Disney musical-comedies and baseball.

Along with this incident, I wonder how many studen...

2009-06-05T12:28:59.124-05:00

Along with this incident, I wonder how many students were kicked out of school for their hair being too long, a' la Lumberton style? Is there no end to the silliness? What's next? Black kids? Asian Kids? Kids of mixed race? Kids carrying Hanna Montana lunch pails and Astros tee shirts?
Oh the pain! The pain!