Why are some graduation gowns STILL gendered?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they look nice and it helps family members pick them out of a crowd. But maybe that was my school- my graduating class was over 1k.

How about the trans kids then? kids who are they/them?

Each of them should be able to choose the color that they want. Different colors help with identification in a crowd. The easiest grouping was always male/female but, honestly, it doesn't matter who wears what. It just matters that you can pick out people in a crowd of many that all look alike.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t stand the tradition of girls wearing white. I actually wrote my college application essay on this topic 25 years ago. Our colors were green and gold but the gowns were green (boys) and white (girls).

My school (in California, not the DMV area) colors were black and gold. At graduation boys wore black and girls wore an ugly shade of yellow that was supposed to be "gold." Anyone with a GPA above 4.0 wore white. A big part of my best friend's motivation for good grades was to be able to wear the white gown instead of the ugly yellow.

Laughing at the idea that everyone should wear the ugliest version of their HS colors unless they get good grades. So funny.

[Anonymous]

That does seem silly. I bet some kids wear the opposite gown just for kicks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they look nice and it helps family members pick them out of a crowd. But maybe that was my school- my graduating class was over 1k.

How about the trans kids then? kids who are they/them?

Each of them should be able to choose the color that they want. Different colors help with identification in a crowd. The easiest grouping was always male/female but, honestly, it doesn't matter who wears what. It just matters that you can pick out people in a crowd of many that all look alike.

Identification in a crowd? It doesn't seem to apply here, unless you're talking about something very specific only your child wears... because there are hundreds of boys and hundreds of girls! Not very useful for ID, you know!

Completely nonsensical reasoning.

[Anonymous]

Who cares?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they look nice and it helps family members pick them out of a crowd. But maybe that was my school- my graduating class was over 1k.

How about the trans kids then? kids who are they/them?

There are a miniscule number of trans kids and presumably they would wear the color of the gender with which they identify. This isn't hard. Why are trying to make it so?

There are lots of nonbinary kids who don't identify with either gender, and thus, can't do what you are suggesting.

It's a stupid tradition. My high school used to have separate valedictorians, male and female. That was also a stupid tradition. There is no reason not to just have one color.

No, there aren't. Pick a color.

[Anonymous]

Just wear what you want and stop expecting the entire world to kowtow to your microminority situation.

[Anonymous]

My nieces go to (went to) a tiny, arts magnet school in Seattle and all the kids pick any color gown they want. Their pictures looked awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My nieces go to (went to) a tiny, arts magnet school in Seattle and all the kids pick any color gown they want. Their pictures looked awesome.

I like that! I would have preferred a purple gown to the baby blue one I had to wear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t stand the tradition of girls wearing white. I actually wrote my college application essay on this topic 25 years ago. Our colors were green and gold but the gowns were green (boys) and white (girls).

My school (in California, not the DMV area) colors were black and gold. At graduation boys wore black and girls wore an ugly shade of yellow that was supposed to be "gold." Anyone with a GPA above 4.0 wore white. A big part of my best friend's motivation for good grades was to be able to wear the white gown instead of the ugly yellow.

Laughing at the idea that everyone should wear the ugliest version of their HS colors unless they get good grades. So funny.

We just had gold tassles for National Honor Society. I think that's sufficient.