A lesbian high school student will not have her picture in the yearbook due to the crime of posing in a tuxedo. Students posing for yearbook pictures in this Florida high school have two choices: a tuxedo or a piece of black fabric draped across their breasts.
This was the same choice I had back in the 1960s!
Like many girls, Kelli Davis dresses in jeans and t-shirts. She doesn't wear make-up. She says she's always been uncomfortable about "exposing" her breasts. Too bad, said her principal.
School officials stress that this is not about sexual orientation, rather it is about gender.
Well, duh. Sexual orientation is about gender, dummies.
The gender rules say girls will accentuate their breasts and legs, wear make-up, and at all times make themselves pleasing to males.
The number one gender rule: Girls and boys will display a sexual interest in the opposite sex, only.
Break the gender rules and you will be punished and maybe even rendered invisible.
While Kelli Davis is a self-identified lesbian, there are many many heterosexual girls who also object to the enforcement of rigid gender rules.
This story is yet more evidence that we are regressing big time. A friend of mine was expelled (or suspended) from UT-Knoxville back in the 1970's, for the crime of wearing pants to class. In those bad old days, women who wore pants lost their jobs.
Contact the principal and tell him that women actually wear pants in the workplace these days, and girls should certainly be allowed to wear pants in the yearbook, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Ask him why he forces girls to flaunt their breasts. It may be the first time he's ever thought about it.
Principal: Sam Ward sward@mail.clay.k12.fl.us
Fleming Island High School * 2233 Village Square Parkway * Orange Park, FL 32003 Telephone 904-541-2100 * Fax 904-541-2110
