high school letter says 'keep "the girls" covered and supported', don't show 'sausage rolls'

[Liberal_in_LA]

A Pennsylvania high school that warned graduating seniors to wear appropriate dress to an awards ceremony is being accused of imposing a double standard on female students and using language that some found degrading.

Biglerville High School, just north of Gettysburg, caused an uproar when it issued a letter advising female students to "choose modest attire” and keep "the girls" - a euphemism for breasts - covered and supported.

"Please remember as you select an outfit for the awards assembly that we don’t want to be looking at sausage rolls," the letter said. "As you get dressed, remember that you can’t put 10 pounds of mud in a five-pound sack."

While the school, which has about 500 students, warned female students against tight clothing, it only advised boys to wear nice clothes and avoid low-hanging pants.

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http://news.yahoo.com/pennsylvania-schools-dress-code-letter-criticized-degrading-200844923.html

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Until I got to the end of the OP, I assumed that the

'sausage roll' line was aimed at the guys. What sort of anatomy on a female is a 'sausage roll'?

[fizzgig]

3. i had the same thought

i'm assuming "sausage roll" refers to muffin tops or fat rolls around the middle.

this seriously makes me want to :barf:

[KamaAina]

13. It's :puke:

[haikugal]

2. Welcome to my neck of the woods..however I don't think I'd see this in our Burg, damn!

Erich, good question!

[Romeo.lima333]

4. "As you get dressed, remember that you can’t put 10 pounds of mud in a five-pound sack."

this is such a lousy thing to say

[Tipperary]

8. I know. Please explain to me what this even means?

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. it means - don't squeeze yourself into clothing size too small

[Tipperary]

15. Ok, I guess I did get that.

I just found the reference to "mud" a bit odd.

[LibertyLover]

16. It's a riff on an old-timey, folksy saying

that you usually hear expressed as 'you can't squeeze 10 pounds (or quarts) of "excrement" into a 5 pound (or quart) container." At least the school used mud instead of the usual material.

[Snobblevitch]

5. I wonder who wrote this and why they thought it was a good idea.

[d_legendary1]

6. Maybe they use one of those corsets

And think students should use them too? Or someone who doesn't like belly fat? Either way I'm with you: were they thinking?

[rock]

7. "Because that's so tacky"

"And believe me, we know tacky!" Yep.

[gvstn]

9. +1000

[Nye Bevan]

10. What's with the infantile language like "The Girls"?

Aren't schools supposed to teach correct medical terminology? What's wrong with "breasts"? Do they talk about "weiners" and "hoo-haas" in health ed at that school?

[B2G]

11. Well it did reference the boys' underwear

Sounds to me like this was some middle aged persons attempt at sounding 'hip'...and failed miserably.

[Initech]

12. I'll let the great Weird Al have the say on what's tacky or not: