Utah School Officials Who Edited Girl's Photos Allowed Boys To Go Shirtless And Show Underwear In

[Sheldon Cooper]

Yearbook Pictures

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/06/06/yearbook-hypocrisy/



If you were totally outraged and disgusted after learning that Wasatch High School officials in Utah selectively edited the yearbook photos of female students to cover their shoulders and arms, this update will send you over the edge.

When female students discovered that Wasatch County School District officials had digitally added sleeves to their pictures last month, it angered them. The media covered the story, placing administrators in the hot seat and forcing Terry E. Shoemaker, the superintendent of schools for the Wasatch County School District, to apologize. However, he only gave a weak half-apology for the incident.

His “apology” didn’t make the grade then, and it certainly doesn’t now, especially since new photos have been discovered in the yearbook that prove just how incredibly sexist the school dress code rules are.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, while girls were targeted in the yearbook, boys were allowed to wear anything they wanted. In an unfortunately titled yearbook section dubbed “Wasatch Stud Life,” male students are pictured wearing sleeveless shirts that girls were punished for wearing. And that’s not all. Boys also wore shirts that revealed their chests and waists. Boys were even allowed to show their underwear and tattoos. In what is clearly a major double standard the headline declares that this is “Studs doin’ what studs do best!”

Here’s a photo of the yearbook section via ThinkProgress.

Is there anyone, ANYONE, who is surprised by this? Anyone at all?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Can I spell Double Standard ... ? why Yes, I think I did.

[freshwest]

2. Surprised? Not really. Depressed at this, yes. All unfit to be called education.

I'm more concerned about the boy pictures. They are portrayed as brainless and coarse.

The title 'stud' implies they serve no purpose in society but service mares or females just like stud horses.

I see it not a celebration of their freedom to expose skin but objectifying them as nothing more than dumb animals.

As far as the sleeves on the girls, I think John Ashcroft must be involved somehow.

The girl with added sleeves look as if they are going somewhere in life and the boys look like they will never accomplish anything.

JMHO.

[nomorenomore08]

3. All kinds of fucked-up and sad all around, isn't it?

[freshwest]

4. Yes it is. Worse than when I was growing up. I feel bad for young people if this is all they know.

[nomorenomore08]

5. Seems worse, in some ways, than even when I was going to high school ('99-'03).

Now obviously, it depends in part on the school, but these days something tells me the kids aren't all right.

[TiredOfNo]

7. Can you spell "religious oppression?"

[eggplant]

6. They should demand free yearbook reprints with the original photos restored.

It seems only fair.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. Utah. It's Arkansas' backwaters cousin.

[DallasNE]

9. Boys Will Be Boys, Girls Will Be Sluts

Some things never change when it comes to the good old boy double standard. Disgusting.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. boys will be boys,

Rough and rowdy, disrespectful and self-stroking ("stroking" purposely chosen for its double-entendre value).....
Girls will be held responsible, repressed, limited, and controlled to pay for the excesses encouraged for boys.


Nice.

When Freud postulated "penis envy" in women, what he misunderstood was that the envy was for the freedom conferred by having a penis, not envy for the literal appendage.

Many girls notice the double standard very young.

[mopinko]

10. ya know, i have a dear, dear friend. an old crone like me.

a painter.
the group gorilla girls was, well, of her milieu. secrecy and all.
they live on. but back then they just passed out little fact sheet about representation of women in various museums. in front of the museum, dressed in gorilla suits.

i think of them every time i see this, because i think it would be great to have the burqa squad to swarm these fuckers.
we had this in evanston. the fucking people's republic of evanston. i think they backed down, but i think the whole rape culture discussion is about to ignite on campuses.

or, at least, well, i'm trying to pass out a few matches.

[Orrex]

12. Two questions, for clarification

1. Were the girls punished beyond the unauthorized alteration of their photos? That would be insult added to injury, I should think.

2. Were the "studs" allowed to wear their skin & underwear-baring fashion choices in their formal pics, or only in the act-like-a-dumbass section of the yearbook? Were girls likewise allowed such casual dress outside of the formal pics, or were they (as I suspect) restricted in both areas?


What a screwed up school with a screwed up yearbook policy.

[struggle4progress]

13. Some day these girls will want to be mothers. But what man would want to marry

a girl who trolloped shamelessly through high school with naked shoulders? And what conclusions would their own daughters reach if they saw such indecent pictures? Surely they would consider even more outrageous behavior themselves. A fad of exposed female ankles might sweep the country, inflaming impure thoughts in men

I'm shocked the authorities failed to photo-shop wimples onto the girls' heads as well