New dress code outlaws dresses and skirts in Texas school district

[3catwoman3]

23. I grew up in Rochester NY, and attended high...

...school in the late 1960s. No pants allowed for girls. No one drove to school in those days, and waiting for the bus in deep winter with the harsh winds blowing up your skirt/dress, was no fun. I would have been delighted to have pants required.

That said, I do certainly see the misogynistic hypocrisy here.

When my late mother was a school nurse in a junior high way back in the late 60s, the vice principle used to grumble about how tight some of the trouble maker boys wore their pants. (A tailor would NOT have had to ask, "Which side do you dress to, sir?) He once commented to my mom, with reference to high temperatures decreasing sperm counts, "Well, maybe they won't be able to reproduce." She got a good chuckle out of that.