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kwashikwashi · Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Location: Gangnam

I teach at a coed public high school. A few of the female students wear the male uniform and haircut. I'm not mistaken, because I've seen these students walking into the girls' bathroom.

Why are they doing this? Are they trying to present themselves as tomboys, lesbians, or is it just some superficial whim?

I asked some of them, and at first everyone said they really were boys. Then they said they just didn't like wearing skirts. Is there a deeper answer to this question?

Died By Bear · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:17 am Post subject:

Could it be an expression of defiance?

Hotwire · Joined: 29 Aug 2010 Location: Multiverse

Girls who like boys who like boys who are girls who like boys to be girls who are girls who like boys?

nero · Joined: 11 Mar 2009

redaxe · Joined: 01 Dec 2008

The uniforms with skirts for the girls are kind of sexist. There's no reason why girls have to wear skirts instead of pants just to get an education. And then you have some girls rolling their skirts up to make them shorter on purpose. Can you say jailbait?

In China all the kids wear matching track suits to class. That's the uniform. Same for girls and boys. I think that's better. It doesn't cause any issues.

jvalmer · Joined: 06 Jun 2003

Girls do have the option to wear pants, even in girls schools, for at least the last 10 years. But it is rare to find one that does go with the pants option. I'd say 1 in 2000 girls will wear the uniform pants. I've taught in 2 girls schools over 3 years and have only seen one girl wear pants and it was because she had some weird leg deformity.

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

There's at least two girls wearing pants (unfortunately made with the same skirt material) in my girls' middle school of about a thousand students.

redaxe · Joined: 01 Dec 2008

Kaypea · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

It is interesting... at my school, only one girl wears the winter/fall pants, but she wears the summer skirt. In the winter, the girls are too cold. They often wear their tracksuit pants for PE under their skirts.

I also think the Chinese tracksuits would be good, or maybe a black pants and sweater for everyone.

Steelrails · Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Location: Earth, Solar System

There are plenty of explanations for why this is done. Not everything is some defiant act. Not everyone is 19 and ticked off at daddy and the world.

Their parents might be Christians who believe in modest dress. Or maybe they are poor and feel that pants are a more economic option. Or it might be the choice of the student- gender identity issues do happen in High School.

machoman · Joined: 11 Jul 2007

i have a middle school student who is #1 in her grade. her english name last semester was joan, then it switched to john. she has a boys haircut and she's the only girl who wears pants. we played a game and one question was "what is the best part about the human body" and she responded with "bosoms."