# Sure you can come to the dance, but only after I inspect your panties. WTF?? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 30, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561 "2002-04-30T21:54:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/61 "2002-05-11T23:04:33Z")
I said this in another thread - the concept that some one might, under **some** situation(s) voluntarily show their panties in **no mother fucking way** gives some one else a right to lift their skirts/whatever. Gee, she’s had sex before, so she shouldn’t complain about it this time. :rolleyes: Voluntary vs. involuntary. ---
**Author:** ![shimmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shimmery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shimmery)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/62 "2002-05-11T23:16:50Z")
thong-related hijack: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by shrew \* > \*\* Why are junior high girls/high school girls wearing thongs in the first place? > > \ > > Thong underwear disrupts class, distracts other students, and generally is too sexually provocative for high school. It’s their right to wear them, and the administrator was completely out of line, but the whole thong phenomenon truly does trouble me. High school girls need to focus on their schoolwork, not on how many guys are getting a hard-on just by seeing their panties. \*\* Thong underwear does not always equal skanky underwear. Not everyone wears a thong hiked up out of their pants. The point of thong, in fact, is that you DON’T want your underwear to be noticed. I, as a high school girl, own several (decidedly not sexually provocative) thongs because in some pants or skirts I have, it is necessary to wear one to avoid underwear lines. (If you are being facetious, **shrew** , then, uh, never mind!) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/63 "2002-05-11T23:22:46Z")
Now, really. Even if a hundred thong-wearing 15-year old girls do the “freak dance” every Friday (there’s a mental image… :p) , that is not an excuse to subject a single one to this. You kick out anyone doing something they should not, maybe ban him/her friom the next dance. OR ban the “freak dance” to begin with. Then if the kids want to “freak dance” they can do so at a private venue, no need for school officials to be concerned with underwear. If the adults cannot control the kids who behave badly, well, then maybe the problem goes a little bit beyond lewd dance moves… And insofar as the thongs themselves are concerned, the news stories DO say that the school dress code DOES forbid visible underwear. So that should cover **shrew** ’s concerns. It also explains why Wilson had to have the girls partly disrobe: the thongs were NOT visible going in [sub](stop snickering)[/sub]. BTW the story update **RTFirefly** quotes goes on to include a prolonged cry-me-a-fuckin’-river whine from Wilson as to how she has been demonized and her career ruined by the media and the parents. Well, DUUUHH! ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/64 "2002-05-12T00:18:54Z")
wonder if anyone took pictures ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/65 "2002-05-12T15:40:30Z")
I’m a high school senior with less experience than I would like on this topic. What’s wrong with 750 teenagers simulating sex? That’s not rhetorical. Who is being hurt by this? My impression was that the purpouse of dances was to allow Nervous Nellies and Nevilles to (gasp) touch each other in a societally accepted situation. Oh, yeah, the O.P. Forget being fired, I say sue. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/66 "2002-05-12T15:53:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cagiva650 \* > \*\*the kids in question need to rediscover the notion of modesty. \*\* And the way to do this is by forcing them to show their underwear to their _teachers?_ ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/67 "2002-06-02T13:30:50Z")
Shrew, you’re probably going to want to beat me with a stick, for on Friday night I chaperoned at a pep rally and dance (as part of Saturday’s Dragon Boat Youth Race Festival), and guess what: lots of happy, well behaved kids, well dressed kids. Not a problem in the lot. Time for you to move north. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/68 "2002-06-19T11:50:23Z")
[Update](http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/18/thong.check.ap/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/69 "2002-06-19T12:37:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Wilson said she was concerned the combination of revealing clothing and suggestive dancing could lead to sexual assaults. Oh the irony. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/70 "2002-06-20T02:26:22Z")
That’s IT? She’s now in a TEACHING position? Fucking hell! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/71 "2002-06-20T03:38:23Z")
If I were in one of her classes this fall (and if I had the guts, which I probably wouldn’t) I would go in on the first day and say, “Oh, Mrs. Wilson…just wanted to show you I’m not wearing a thong!” ( | ) ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/72 "2002-06-20T03:47:17Z")
She’s been demoted. Now she can only check bras. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/73 "2002-06-20T04:37:42Z")
Jumpin jeebiz. Where’s the logic here? “I don’t want anyone to see your underwear, so lift your dress in front of the boys so I can see your underwear”? As far as I am concerned, using one’s position as an authority figure to coerce young women into revealing their underwear choices sounds rather a lot like sexual harassment to me. If the authority figure in question HERSELF lifted the dresses to peek underneath, I’d call that sexual assault. Good thing this bozo wasn’t at my prom. I wore a skintight red satin dress, cut halfway down to my navel and halfway up to my mussentuchit with NUTHIN’ underneath. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/74 "2002-06-20T05:27:26Z")
Well, this gives me an idea. For safety reasons, entry to all future NYC Dopefest venues will be contingent on a thorough Undergarment Check. We need volunteers for the search duty. Anyone…? Anyone…? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/75 "2002-06-20T05:28:43Z")
LifeOnWry: I don’t think it constitutes sexual assault, but lewd and lascivious behaviour certainly seems to be the correct charge. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561/76 "2002-06-20T19:14:24Z")
Gotta be careful about how your underwear fits, y’know- you can’t have [this](http://lileks.com/institute/frahm/index.html) happen! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-you-can-come-to-the-dance-but-only-after-i-inspect-your-panties-wtf/106561.md?page=3)