Girls Forced To Leave Football Game Over Painted Bodies (boys allowed to stay)

[The Straight Story]

Girls Forced To Leave Football Game Over Painted Bodies
Cummings: 'We Did It To Show School Spirit'


MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. -- Two girls at a Florida high school were booted from a football game for painting their bodies to show school spirit, even though boys with painted bodies were allowed to stay.

Manatee High School student Monica Cummings, 17, and her friend Jessyca Altenbach, 17, painted their entire bodies in school colors for a big game this week.

However, both were kicked out of the game in the first quarter.

"People think we did it to be rebellious senior teenagers but we did it because we wanted to show school spirit," student Monica CummingS said. "That's all we did it for."

School district policy states that it is up to administrators to decide whether something is appropriate or not and in this case, the principal decided that the girls' outfits were not appropriate.

http://www.local6.com/spotlight/14349304/detail.html

[Richard Steele]

1. Does this look "inappropriate" to anyone?

Or was some asshhole just being an asshole when
these girls were kicked out?

[redqueen]

2. Not at all.

Just another authoritarian asshole.

[ourbluenation]

4. gender discrimination - flat out. end of story. n/t

[Mika]

In Fla they are supposed to wear burkahs now. n/t

[Hepburn]

6. IMO.....

....they look just fine to me and I am a senior female who is kind of conservative regarding matters of appropriate dress. If I give them a pass, it is hard for me to see where in any manner they were offensive to anyone. In fact, I think they look kinda cute with what they have done!

I sure as hell have seen less appropriate outfits on HS kids who are walking home from school and it sure as hell does not look like those offensive outfits were not allowed to be worn all day long in school.

Out of line to send to bar them IMO.

[HughBeaumont]

8. They look like T-Shirts.

And if it was clean enough to picture, they're clean enough to stay.

What is EVERYONE'S hang-up with exposure? Seriously.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. Would they have been allowed to stay without the paint or was it

the bathing suit tops that they wore? I don't see anything wrong with what they are wearing, paint or no paint. If they were kicked out, the boys should have been kicked out also.

[damntexdem]

12. Yes -- inappropriate to kick them out.

And inappropriate to not treat males the same.

[JerseygirlCT]

17. Just being an asshole nt

[MikeNearMcChord]

3. Jesus! How many times on TV

Especially at college football games, you see young women painted with colors or the names of their schools. This wasn't a case of Lake Havasu here. The Taliban rules Manatee County Florida!

[zbdent]

11. or shirtless guys with bigger boobs than the girls

for that matter ...

[MikeNearMcChord]

13. Yeah I know

No knock on the Big 10, Big 12 or the SEC, but there should be a style committee on shirtless guys who paint themselves,and be seen on TV EWWWWW :hi: (Not that I can talk either:-) )

[MindPilot]

5. Is the principal a former Southwest flight attendant? n/t

[DefenseLawyer]

7. As Seymour Skinner once lamented

I'm a small man in some ways, Bart. A small, petty man.

[frazzled]

9. "Offside" (Iranian film)

I just happened to watch this very enjoyable Iranian film by Jafar Panahi on DVD recently.

It's about six Iranian girls who dress as boys to be able to get into the stadium for the big Iran-Bahrain soccer (football) game. (Though fictional, it was actually shot at that game, which Iran won and went on to the World Cup games.) Women are not allowed to attend games, because they might be ... sitting near men not their brothers or fathers, or overhear some swear words. Of course, they all get caught and arrested .... and it's a charming philosophical comedy of relations between the annoyed soldiers charged with guarding them and the annoyed girls, who don't understand why they can't go in (after a while, neither do the soldiers, but they're under orders).

Highly recommended ... especially in light of our own gender-inflected sports rules imposed by the moral arbiters of Florida.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Ridiculous case of discrimination

[book_worm]

15. looks no worse than boys who do the same thing and go shirtless

[cayanne]

16. That's my alma mater

I graduated from Manatee High in the early 60's. Funny how little changes in 40+ years. Back in Jr. High, it was Walker Jr High then, I was expelled for the day because I and several of my friends came to school in sack dresses made from towels. Every thing was well covered but it was the bathroom towels that made it so suggestive in the principals eyes. We thought it was pretty cool.

[Solon]

18. Someone double check this...

But here's the school's website, I think, drop them a line and tell them what you think...

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/highschool/manatee/