To me, feminism is a supporting equal rights for women. In my life as a high school student, I don't feel like I am really that discriminated against, except for dress codes.
Dress codes are utterly ridiculous. They should only have the bare minimum, like preventing wildly offensive slogans on shirts and things and making sure people actually do wear clothes. But determining how long of sleeves a person can wear or how short shorts can be is ridiculous.
These rules are mostly aimed at girls. Girls are generally the only ones who wear short shorts, and this is only because it is extremely hot outside and on buses (at least in my area). Also, girls are more apt to wear spaghetti straps or strapless shirts. What about our shoulders is so enticing? I don't understand. Boys could wear tank tops and be fine at my school but girls could not. This is blatant sexism.
My middle school principal said these rules were to keep the boys in line and undistracted. This is wrong. Why should I have to cover myself up and be uncomfortably hot just to keep the boys from "losing control"?
What schools should be doing is teaching boys to control themselves. I strongly believe that by teaching girls that it is their bodies that make boys distracted, and that they must cover up to stop this, public schools and therefore the state governments are promoting rape culture. And this must stop.
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