[Morgana]

I like this one:

"* If your pants are hanging around your thighs, then they have ceased performing their essential function as pants and you are dressing immodestly."

Dare I say why we can't enforce that form of modesty?

[ansel12]

females should quit wearing men’s clothes.

[Tupelo]

This column apparently is talking about student dress codes.
I think TEACHER dress codes should be the obvious starting place. Any dress codes should start with teachers required to wear Business Attire. At the minimum slacks and shirt. No jeans and tee shirts.

[fhayek]

If a female wears provocative clothing, I will stare every time.

[JoeDetweiler]

Liberal Oakland instituted uniform Dress Codes several years ago, under Mayor Jerry Brown, believe it or not. And it turned out that the parents loved it! The biggest selling point was that they no longer had spend big bucks keeping up with the latest fashions. Everyone now wears khaki pants or a khaki skirt with a green top. Simple and inexpensive.

And the kids look a lot better too ;-)

[Ann Archy]

UNIFORMS!!!! Uniforms are GREAT!! Talk about being EQUAL!! And it's much CHEAPER and creates a much better atmosphere at school. No one is embarrassed because EVERYONE is!!

Every third world country we've been in, we have seen very poor children in uniforms and they look darling! Plus it makes them look BETTER and WEALTHIER.

[Robert A Cook PE]

But the SCHOOL bureaucrats DEMAND iron-clad, explicit, specific, by-the-1/4 inch rules so THEY do have to use THEIR judgement in front of parents who refuse to use THEIR judgement. (Or never had it in the first place.)

And the liberal socialist “thought police” use every one of those arguments to get ALL rules thrown out. Except what the liberal socialists demand in their policies!

[T-Bird45]

The author uses logic to make multiple good points about joint responsibility for making modest choices. The main point he overlooks are the basic facts of human biology and sexual drive. These facts have been in play even back when showing a little ankle could cause a major scandal. The human male is easily visually enticed and the human female knows this. Also, the largest human sexual organ is the brain which can launch off into fantasy and imagination even if everybody were wearing sackcloth robes from neck to floor. Modesty is good and so is a sense of perspective that’s linked to biological reality.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

When it comes to the distraction caused by immodest dress, this fallacy occurs when one side only supports what they think is the common sense solution – tell the female students to stop dressing immodestly so that no one is distracted. The other side then fires back with their only solution, which I have to admit, is a catchy slogan,

“Don’t tell girls what to wear, teach the boys not to stare!”

Whoever came up with that last sentence is obviously female - no one who has ever experienced male puberty would bother trying to tell teenage boys not to be distracted by teenage girls. Might as well tell them to flap their arms and fly to the moon.

And no, it doesn't matter how modestly the girls dress - there's no denying human nature. Girls went to school covered from neck to toes 100 years ago, boys stared.

[morphing libertarian]

We stayed at a villa on the north coast of Jamaica, east of Ocho Rios, circa 1979. Did a lot of walking. Very poor villages, neighborhoods.

However, each school day we could see waves of kids in different color uniforms, by level of school. Walking to and from school.

Very nice and something to see in the middle of a city or town.

[Georgia Girl 2]

School Uniforms. Every public school in the US should be requiring a school uniform. Studies have proven that for one thing it improves discipline. It also takes away the gang colors problem and the status issue of poor kids trying to wear the expensive clothes and shoes. If everyone looks the same they can concentrate on their studies and not who’s wearing what.

[elpadre]

take hormones out of the equation by having single sex schools.

[donna]

A society’s first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. These behavioral norms, mostly transmitted by example, word-of-mouth and religious teachings, represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error.

They include important thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not murder, shalt not steal, shalt not lie and cheat, but they also include all those courtesies one might call ladylike and gentlemanly conduct.

Policemen and laws can never replace these restraints on personal conduct. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society.

This failure to fully transmit value norms to subsequent generations represents another failing of the greatest generation.
- Walter E. Williams, Nov. 21, 2007

[Tax-chick]

By the time the students are my age, they could walk around in a bikini without being an occasion of sin for any man who hasn’t spent the last year deployed on a submarine.

[spokeshave]

Dress code Eh....

First lady "leading from behind"

[spokeshave]

Presidential dress code:

Blue suit......check

Blue tie.......check

Blue shirt.....check

Flap ears......check

Pelosi stare....check

Flash dentures....check

Extend laugh lines....check

Transfer $240Million to Dallas Baptist Church Charity to house illegal alien children....check

Cheesey grin....check..

[minnesota_bound]

This is what you guys wore in the 90's.

[metmom]

Men and women should also dress modestly so that they don’t unnecessarily arouse sexual feelings in other people.

And yet they do, knowing full well that it will.

And when challenged on it, they then turn it back on the other person and accuse them of having their mind in the gutter, when they know full well, they are enticing.

I remember well enough back in the day when I was a teen.

Girls dressed specifically to attract the attention of the boys, and human nature being what it is, they are still doing so. They have no complaint when they get it.

IMO, they are not fooling anyone but themselves.