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This.  Or, better yet, if boys think it's sexy, then they need to learn to deal with it.  That's their problem...it's not the girls' problem to fix by wearing different clothes.  What are we teaching our daughters here?    [/quote]
I am the second quoted pp here. I think it's unfair to say "it's their problem" to boys who are going through puberty. Maybe if we stopped trying to pretend that adolescents don't have sexual feelings we could allow girls to wear what they want AND teach boys how to behave appropriately. [/quote]

You do realize that this is the same line of reasoning employed by Muslim extremists who make laws requiring women to veil and dress very modestly?[/quote]

No, it's not. (I'm not the poster you're responding to.) I think that the PP is saying that we should acknowledge that adolescents (girls as well as boys, presumably) have sexual feelings and need to learn how to behave appropriately given their sexual feelings.  That is certainly not the position of any Muslim extremists I've heard of.

Now, in my opinion, society in general is pretty clear on the idea that adolescent boys have sexual feelings but is highly uncomfortable with the idea that adolescent girls have sexual feelings (except for sluts, of course, whom we must shame).[/quote]

I think we all need to realize and admit that middle school boys and girls have sexual feelings.  But I also think we need to realize that kids need to deal w/ those feelings.  If boys have feelings because of the girls are dressed, then they need to deal w/ those feelings and learn to not get distracted, etc.  The girls do not need to wear different clothes.  And, certainly, schools should not be setting dress policies on this premise.  If they are, shame on them, and shame on the parents supporting such policies.  What will the boys do in high school or college when there's no dress policy?  [/quote]

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