{"id":380,"date":"2012-06-07T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=380"},"modified":"2012-06-07T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:48:07","slug":"stuyvesant-high-students-dress-sexy-for-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/06\/07\/stuyvesant-high-students-dress-sexy-for-a-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuyvesant High Students Dress Sexy for a Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Slut Walks<\/a> in Canada, New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brightest high school students put together the most badass demonstration ever yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor, as the students dubbed it, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Slutty Wednesday.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Stuyvesant High School students stripped to spaghetti straps and short shorts to protest the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new dress code, which was imposed September of last year. The mini-skirt-and-tank-top-wearing smartest kids in the city marched into school with flyers reading \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Redress the Dress\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and some with examples of the current dress code crossed out with red Xs.<\/p>\n

The fresh sartorial regulations<\/a> are as follows: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sayings and illustrations on clothing should be in good taste; shoulders, undergarments, midriffs, and lower backs should not be exposed; the length of shorts, dresses, and skirts should extend below the fingertips with the arms straight at your side.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Since September, students have been butting heads with administrators not over the code itself, but \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rather\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s faulty, subjective enforcement of the policy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as Tiffany Phan, a junior, writes in an op-ed in the Stuyvesant student newspaper<\/a>. The Stuy Spectator<\/em> is crawling with grievances by students, particularly by female students, who experience the code as being aimed at them directly. They have their students IDs confiscated (evidently some kind of guideline at Stuyvesant High School), and are even given long grey t-shirts to cover their inappropriate dress. Writes senior Jacqueline Krass, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was advised to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthink knees,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or just wear pants. I was released with a warning, and left feeling like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been called out for wearing a bikini top to school, or a garter belt. It was an unpleasant, shaming experience.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Senior Lucinda Ventimiglia said an administrator told her, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the dress code was only instituted for [her] protection, because there are a lot of bad men outside school, and if [she were] raped, nobody would be able to take that away\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Then, she said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcand you want a husband, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

And so yesterday, in a radical act of free will, Stuyvesant students by the hundreds bared their shoulders and kneecaps. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to overpower the grey t-shirts,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Madeline Rivera, a senior, told reporters<\/a>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re outnumbering them now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Senior Benjamin Koatz, who is credited with having helped organize the protest, is quoted as having said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSlutty Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not actually slutty.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (I can only wonder if anyone wore anything from Top Shop<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, these kids are going to have an awesome time once they get to college, huh? (Image: Stuy Spectator<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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Forget last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Slut Walks in Canada, New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brightest high school students put together the most badass demonstration ever yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor, as the students dubbed it, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Slutty Wednesday.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Stuyvesant High School students stripped to spaghetti straps and short shorts to protest the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new dress code, which was imposed September of last year. The mini-skirt-and-tank-top-wearing … <\/p>\n

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