Dress Code Argumentative Essay

In schools, girls are dress coded for the most foolish reasons. Women on the streets are called rude names for wearing certain outfits. Girls and women are told how to dress, what clothings are presentable, and what is too much. As long as there are commands placed upon women on how to dress, women will never be free.

Women are often deemed as sluts or whores when they wear provocative clothing. When women wear certain clothing pieces, they are the accessories to the clothing. Schools and others should stop sexualizing women's bodies and placing rules on what to wear. The clothing isn’t the problem, it’s the sexualization of the clothing. “The dress code controversy operates within a larger cultural context--one which women are frequently sexualized and
Rev, 1041). Schools should not make girls feel like they are sex objects that need to cover 24/7. Women can’t live in fear of arousing the other gender and getting punished. The gender of the person shouldn’t be the determining factor of what is “sexy” or the amount of denceny they have when wearing certain clothing. Instead of punishing those who sexualizal the female race, schools and society punishes the girls wearing clothing that their bodies are comfortable in. Women have bodies, men have bodies, all humans have bodies. All society and schools got to do to stop sexualization of female bodies, is recognize that human beings have different body shapes that come in different sizes, not matter what the gender of the person may be. To press on the topic of female bodies being sexualizal by soiecty, is that sexualizaling a women can cause damage to their self esteem and bring down their views on themselves. “Why my objectification and sexualization was paramount in our relationship, while my achievements and personality fell by the wayside, unexplored, uncelebrated. Only years later did I begin to process the emotions I felt that day and the interaction that lead to them. Much time passed before I began to