# Did thosegirls in the 7th grade know I was peeking up their skirts? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 27, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275 "2003-12-27T17:44:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/1 "2003-12-27T17:44:36Z")
Seems like an appropriate topic for this sex-obsessed season. Keep in mind that 7th grade was, for me, 1958 or so. Also, I was in catholic school. Pubic mounds and butt cracks were rarely on display back then. 😉 Thongs were worn on the feet. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/2 "2003-12-27T20:20:09Z")
They do now. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/3 "2003-12-27T20:43:23Z")
I don’t do it _now_. :eek: :o And that’s an “embarrassed” smiley, not “fellatio”. ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/4 "2003-12-27T21:33:42Z")
Seeing as how I wasn’t even alive in 1958, nor would I be for another 27 years, I can speak for 7th graders during my day. It’s really quite simple, if they’re wearing a skirt, they know people will be looking. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/5 "2003-12-27T21:53:14Z")
Well I’m only ten years than you **Duder** , but I wouldn’t have realized it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/6 "2003-12-27T23:53:08Z")
What I don’t understand is how boys can peek up girls’ skirts. I mean, it’s not like we’re walking around on mirrored floors (well, I can’t comment for _every_one, of course). How does one accomplish aforesaid peekage? Drop a pencil and look up while you’re picking it up? I just can’t imagine how this works. ---
**Author:** ![gubernator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@gubernator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gubernator)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/7 "2003-12-28T00:03:26Z")
Dropping something and picking it up is one thing used, in my middle school days. I’ve also heard of people using tiny mirrors attached to their shoes in public restrooms, or a cam-corder with it’s lens popping out of the top of a sports bag that they can place on the ground and use to capture what lies beneath the skirt. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/8 "2003-12-28T00:20:57Z")
heh girls sit. Some girls wear short skirts and don’t cross their legs. A good old fashioned pencil drop works. Some girls not only don’t close their legs but sit with them open you don’t even need to get into a weird pencil drop positions to look up theirs. Wait…er I mean I have no idea how a person would look up a skirt. THat’s gross. ---
**Author:** ![Bandanaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@Bandanaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bandanaman)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/9 "2003-12-28T00:25:27Z")
Think Molly Ringwold in Breakfast Club. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/10 "2003-12-28T03:16:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bandanaman \* > \*\*Think Molly Ringwold in Breakfast Club. \*\* Or read _Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?_ ---
**Author:** ![HomerIU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HomerIU](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HomerIU)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/11 "2003-12-28T03:52:47Z")
If I had to guess, since I wouldn’t know… ``` If they're short enough, stairs. Open Stairwell, look up. Miniskirts....usually the pencil gag or dropping something and bend over. You're getting into creepy territory in my mind if you go to the mirrors on the shoes. ``` ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/12 "2003-12-28T04:11:16Z")
I’ve never actually seen anyone put mirrors on his shoes. And my group was pretty creepy. We all talked about the mirrors though. Bleachers were pretty cool, but you _always_ got caught. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/13 "2003-12-28T04:47:17Z")
I remember 1958 very well. There was a danger to becoming adept at catching females sitting in an exposed position. The danger was that old ladies are bad about sitting in a very exposed position. In 1958 the term “beaver” was not in use yet, and so we called it “squirell hunting”. 😉 Oh, and to answer the OP. **Sometimes they did and sometimes they didn’t.** ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/14 "2003-12-28T05:04:11Z")
From m-w; “4 usually vulgar : the pudenda of a woman”. 😃 No date for this useage. Now what sounds more vulgar, beaver or pudenda. Anyway, I seem to remember “beaver cheaters” from pretty early on. Beaver cheaters were long-legged panties that went about half way to the knees, and often had ruffles. I don’t remember the reak name. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/15 "2003-12-28T16:17:09Z")
Of course they knew. It’s why their mothers all told them to sit with their knees together and ankles crossed. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/16 "2003-12-28T16:22:26Z")
Back in grade school we would con the girls into using the monkey bars. Quite effective. ---
**Author:** ![herman\_and\_bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@herman\_and\_bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herman_and_bill)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/17 "2003-12-28T17:07:42Z")
Just get the essence of what you are looking at and don’t stare all day or you will get caught and get the dreaded snarl…WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? ---
**Author:** ![Alereon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alereon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alereon)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/18 "2003-12-28T18:05:19Z")
Hmm, I wonder if the easy availability of Internet porn to youngsters these days isn’t actually an IMPROVEMENT… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/19 "2003-12-28T18:51:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ParentalAdvisory \* > \*\*Back in grade school we would con the girls into using the monkey bars. Quite effective. \*\* “I see London, I see France, I see **Parental’s** underpants!” ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275/20 "2003-12-28T19:10:08Z")
Uh oh! :eek: Ok, stop laughing at me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-thosegirls-in-the-7th-grade-know-i-was-peeking-up-their-skirts/221275.md?page=2)