Living in the same country as people like this is probably adversly affecting our brain cell count. Kinda like eating lead paint chips.
Wait, wait, it gets better:
Is this boot camp, or is this a fucking high school yearbook?
Jesus.
I must be disconnected from reality, because I can’t imagine how people could be this dumb.
Conform or be cast out. 
It’s the job of the school to prepare kids for harsh reality after all.
I want to know what the hell her being a lesbian has to do with anything.
Because only lesbians wear men’s clothing!!!
Good point. I wonder if the principal would have had a problem if she was simply going for that oh-so-retro late 80’s/early 90’s “women in suit jackets and ties” look.
Or a really, really uptight riff on Avril Lavigne.
Rush reference? 
I’d say it has everything to do with it. Obviously girls wear pants. And they probably wouldn’t have a problem with a guy in a dress as long as it was a “joke”. My bet is if the kid in question was not an aknowelged lesbian they would have let the matter slide.
Assholes.
Why not? That’s the way it was in my high school. Then again, that was over 20 years ago and my small town was generally at least 10 years behind the times. Then, of course, there’s this lovely quote “When uniformity is compromised, then authority no longer holds.” Welcome to Stepford, ladies. Check your minds at the door. You won’t be needing them. :rolleyes:
CJ
In the high school halls… and enforced by administration and the community aparently. sigh
Exactly. Because this girl is obviously flaunting! her! sexuality! by wearing what she wants to wear. It’s fine, you know, as long as “they” don’t scare the horses reading the yearbook.
Right – unwritten standards that you only find out about after you have broken them.
Well, at least one person at that high school gets out of this mess looking good. Congratulations to Keri Sewell for having the courage to stand up to an autocratic principal.
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth
The world gets scary when lyrics by Canadian power trios are coming true. :eek:
Ugh. Yeah. And having a female wear a little scrap of fabric that doesn’t at all cover her shoulders and is fairly low cut is nice and proper (ignoring that fact that if someone were to wear a shirt like that to school, at most places it would be against the ‘dress code’.)
We would only know this for sure if there was another girl, a straight girl, who also wore pants in her yearbook picture and was allowed to have her picture in the yearbook.
Until then, I’m willing to see this as sexism, but not necessarily anti-lesbian.
The principal was on CNN saying that the girl was trying to use the yearbook to make a statement. Sure sounds anti-lesbian to me.
Thing is, most yearbook pictures are from the waist up-I was wearing cut off JEAN shorts in mine, but you’d never know.
It’s not the pants, it’s the fact that she was wearing a tux instead of a dress.
Sooo, if I wear a kilt, I’m not going to get my picture in the yearbook? Woo-hoo! Another pointless high school milestone vaulted!
Gah, I don’t miss high school. Not even a little bit. Someone recently asked me what it was like when I went back go my high school reunion. I looked at her like her ears had turned into giant flaming Olympic torches.
Stranger