If you have boobs then you’ll know that bras are the worst. So, some of us choose to forgo the societal pressure to wear them for the sake of comfort.
Unfortunately, this makes us seem as if we’re “loose women” or intentionally trying to show off our bodies in an effort to be sexy.
You try carrying around two boulders on the front of your chests all day long and tell us if not wearing a bra makes you feel sexy. Sexy…no. It feels absolutely damn exhilarating because you’re no longer placing that weight on your back in an unnatural fashion.
Because society sexualizes women’s breast and not men’s, some women feel as if there are a thousand eyes on them or that they should be ashamed when they don’t wear a bra all because they are trying to be comfortable.
Other women just DGAF. They want to be comfortable and that’s that.
That’s what Remy Altuna was going for. The Beaumont High School student took to Twitter to complain that her school called her out for not wearing a bra. She spent the day wearing her black bodysuit and baggy jeans without any comments from teachers or security guards, but when she went to the school office the assistant vice principal told her she had to wear a jacket.
“She said that my shirt was low cut; then asked if I was wearing a bar,” Altuna told Yahoo. “She went on to say that because I wasn’t wearing a bra, she didn’t want people to think anything bad of me or talk inappropriately or have anything bad to say.”
She administrator told Altuna that she was trying to protect her.
Altuna said she didn’t wear a bra that day so that she wouldn’t violate the dress code which says that shirts “must cover all parts of undergarments and shall not be low cut or revealing.”
The bra would have been showing if she wore one. She told her assistant principal that no one would assume anything about her and that if people had negative things to say she didn’t care.
BHS is so out of line. Now they want to dress code you for not wearing a bra. My underwear is none of there business. pic.twitter.com/HgocMryaGB
— ®emy (@remyaltuna) August 17, 2017
“Society is blaming women’s attire for being sexually harassed,” Altuna told Cosmopolitan. “What a woman is wearing does not justify inappropriate behavior from others.”
Apparently, Altuna isn’t the only girl the school is “protecting” instead of sending the message that objectifying women as sexual objects is wrong.
so today security heard a guy comment something sexual bc of my leggings & then tried to dress code me for it instead of talking to the him?
— Larissa M (@larissaamedina) August 16, 2017
Some have reported that girls are being targeted in the school while dress code offenses for boys, like wearing ripped jeans, go unenforced.
“In a school with 2,800 students, we acknowledge that enforcing the dress code is not a perfect process; administrators diligently work to ensure all students are following the dress code,” Beaumont High School Principal Christina Pierce told Yahoo in an email. “Our goal is to establish a school culture that supports a productive academic atmosphere and safe environment. We provide ongoing training for administrators and staff, who educate students in identifying sexual harassment, and hold regular discussions with students about respectful behavior at school and in the classroom.”
What “bad things” would someone assume? Like oh damn look at that girl being comfy and shit https://t.co/iI9lY2aM5S
— JoJo? (@jojoohohoo) August 17, 2017
Students in the U.S. just aren’t taking this dress code nonsense lying down anymore, and some are even protesting.
Thankfully, there are school districts who are changing their dress codes and doing it right like the Evanston Township High School. They recently modified their code to support “equitable educational access” that does not sexualize and body shame students or “reinforce or increase marginalization or cultural observance, household income or body type/size.”
Take note school districts, times are a changing and it’s time that you get on board.
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