Posted on 01/29/2015 2:54:42 PM PST by Kaslin
When 16-year-old Gabi Finlayson went to Paris with her mother and brother in December, she only bought one thing: a light pink dress with lace overlay that fell just below the knee. She planned to wear it to an upcoming high school dance. “I loved it,” she tells Yahoo Parenting. “It reminded me of Audrey Hepburn. It seemed like a classic dress I could wear forever.”
So on Saturday night, the Utah high school junior couldn’t wait to show up at the dance. “Being a 16-year-old girl, it’s hard to find something that makes you feel pretty and when you do, you want to share it,” she says. But instead of feeling like the belle of the ball, Finlayson ended up feeling shamed and embarrassed, she says, when she was asked to cover up her bare shoulders.
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“I’m telling you, this dress would have passed muster with our Jesuits and the nuns back when I was in high school.”
Last time I checked, Jesuits were followers of Christ. ‘Tis likely the girl was shamed (harrassed, too) by a Mormon who followed Smith.
This is an example of why what the English call “First Principles” matter.
Jesuits & Bible v. Mormons & Book of Mormon.
She attends a madrassa?
The shoulder straps look to be 2 inches to me. The sow who choose to make a big deal out of this probably thought it meant a dress needed capped sleeves.
She ruined that beautiful girls night by making her put her coat over her Paris dress. Maybe the sow should have brought some shawls with her, to provide for the stray students who didn’t follow the rules to the letter. But providing a solution to the problem would mean the sow wouldn’t have gotten her little dictator thrills for the evening.
A friend of mine used to get belted by his wife if he so much as turned his head near the high school. I was with him once and a few girls walked by, bare midriffs, tattoos, navel rings. He said “Nancy’s right; these girls don’t want people looking at them.”
You are correct.
Authoritarianism is dangerous in any form.
That’s a big part of why we home school.
To borrow your phrase, “petty fascism” should not be tolerated by people who wish to live free.
That is a really modest outfit.
A girl could be in a flannel shirt and farmer jeans...and boys would still “think about hitting it”.
Jackie Kennedyesque photograph.
Perhaps the dress is too classy for her HS.
She didn’t show enough skin in select places.
It’s Medusa!
“The best line in the article is where it says:
“....the onus is on the girls to make sure the boys don’t have unclean thoughts”
Right there is why/where one may understand the sheer weirdness of the perspectives that Smith popularized, and the unreality of his premises.
As any fool knows, teen aged boys are coping with the highest level of sex hormones they will ever have. To use the quaint wording of a Smith follower, “unclean thoughts” ARE what come naturally and very frequently, to teen boys.
The thoughts about females are natural. Smith’s followers call them “unclean” - note my use of “call”.
To place responsibility for the results of a natural process in hormone enriched teen boys onto the shoulders of girls is a “blame the temptress woman” on a scale which Muslims embrace.
Well, when Muslims are not busy embracing boys, small livestock, ad nauseam.
That’s very modest. The things I saw at school dances in high school....yikes.
“shoulder straps were to be a minimum of 2”.”
I’ve got gun belts narrower than that.
Muslims, and Mullah Joemar (Smith).
She looks lovely.
The real-life Maleficent!
That young lady looks great.I wonder what the School would have done if she walked into the dance wearing yoga pants?The S.O.B.’s would probably have let her stay.
There is nothing wrong with that dress.You can’t get anymore conservative than that.
Maybe they’d prefer a Burka.
Oh I don’t agree with the rule. I think simply stating “No strapless or spaghetti straps” would suffice. But I understand why a high school might need to insist on 2” straps. I also have no sympathy for someone who knew the rules before hand and decided they would not apply to them. If there was a question of the strap width they should have been measured before asking the girl to cover up.
This school has a high percentage of upper-middle class and “1%er” families. It’s really no surprise she thinks she’s above the rules, especially since everyone absolutely has to see her amazing pink dress she bought in Paris.
If she is Mormon, she wouldn’t be able to wear this dress to a church dance, so that’s probably why she was wearing it to a school dance.
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