Monday, 30 January 2012
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Too Sexy for School?
I came across this story that had a (to me) shocking photo. When I first saw it I honestly thought that it looked like a prelude to a nude pictorial in a magazine. Then I actually read the story behind it I found out that the picture was of a teenage girl and the photo was refused by her high school yearbook committee basically for being to sexy.
Then I heard that her parents were fighting it and supporting her in getting the picture into the yearbook. I couldn’t believe it. It looks like something girls take with their girlfriends and never show anyone or something they'd secretly send to their boyfriends not something that would go into a high school yearbook and the fact the parents are siding with her kind of makes me wonder about them.
I see this often and maybe I'm just a bit old school and its way too much for me. I would never let my daughter dress like this let alone go out of the house or take photos that make her look like she's aspiring to be in a men's magazine. This is coming from the opinion of a girl who developed 32c breasts by the 7th grade (I looked like a twig with two melons stuck to my chest). I had to wear shorts under my homecoming dress or my dad wasn’t going to let me go so I have no clue what its like to try and dress sexy as a teenager and I'm happy I had that restriction.
I think there is way too much sexiness in teens going on these days, but the same could be said for the mico-mini skirts and short- shorts girls wore back in the day. I think all things circle around but is it just a too much of a dangerous time nowadays for dressing this way?
Would you fight for a sexy photo of your daughter to be put into the yearbook?
You can read the article that I read here: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/colorado-student-banned-from-yearbook-over-racy-photo/
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I'd never allow my teenage daughter to ever pose for photos like this, much less fight for them to be put in a yearbook.
It's incredibly sad to think that this is what our society has come to. Teenagers who want to look like cheap prostitutes, and parents who allow it. Not in my house.
Such a touchy subject...the young woman in the first photo looks like one of those women I see on billboards all across town (I live in Vegas lol). However, I don't think this makes her slutty or anything like that. I don't think there's anything wrong with her getting a photo like that. I just think that a high school yearbook may not be the place to put it.
People need to stop fighting for stupid things. Getting "model" shots in the yearbook? By throwing a hissy fit about stupid things she will forever be remembered in that yearbook rather than for her pictures.
I wouldn't help her fight because it doesn't belong in a yearbook. It doesn't fit the subject of school at all. If she wants to dress like this outside of the issue at hand I don't care but it's so random in a school yearbook.
I would be the one leading the fight to keep that OUT of the yearbook.
And then me and my daughter would have a big problem.
This is where I pray my daughters are never interested in dressing like hookers.. I mean I wear low cut tank tops, but im married and my hubby appreciates me cleavage every now and then. But there is a way to do it without looking slutty.
You poor thing. You don't even know what you missed.
Girls used to wear mini skirts and high heels when I went to HS, but that tube top thing.... I don't recall it going that far.
I think if what she is wearing in the photos breaks the dress code of the school, then they have a valid argument. If her parents are fine with her taking those photos, then that's fine, but the school shouldn't be required to publish photos they deem inappropriate.
Isn't she 18? If so, she's on her own to fight her own battles and decide what she wants to do. But still bottom line is that freshmen will own that yearbook too. Something she needs to think about.
It doesn't look like something a teen would send to her boyfriend, it looks like a modeling picture. However, I do agree its inappropriate for a school yearbook. The picture itself, though, isn't slutty.
Believe me when I say that most teenagers don't really care what their parents have to say about what they're wearing. My dad used to try to tell me I couldn't wear certain things, but I would just laugh at him and keep walking.
I would not help my daughter fight to get those pictures in the yearbook. I don't think the picture is slutty. The first one is a nice modeling shot, and the second one is just cheesy (I'd be embarassed if my daughter wanted that picture in the yearbook). With that said, there is a time and place for everything, and the yearbook is probably not the best place for these pictures. I would encourage her to pick a picture that was a little less Lolita. Learning where and when to "dress like yourself " is one of those lessons you learn in life, and if this were my daughter, this would be the first of many lessons in making compromises.
The pose is inappropriate for a year book photo. She needs to get over it and pick a more modest one.
As beautiful and artistic as I find it and I'm sure she finds it to be.. just no.
In a yearbook, no.
In a modeling portfolio, absolutely!
This is sexy? Really? Sorry, she comes off as someone desperate for attention. Doesn't she realize having a photo like this in a yearbook will be immortalized for all eternity?
if you're talking about the first photo, i think you need to cool your jets. it's just a dress. it's really not that bad. it certainly doesn't merit the dramatic response you gave it. but the photo at the bottom of the article does look like a tacky intro to an old dirty magazine shoot. i don't think that one belongs in a school yearbook.
but as far as your last sentence goes, i don't think the times are any more dangerous than any other times.
It's like that one mom who sided with her daughter when she was found sexting during school. like seriously?
that girl is gorgeous and those photos are awesome. for the yearbook? probably not.
but...dressing like a hooker? like a cheap prostitute? you people are seriously awful. :(
and i dont understand the "more dangerous times" thing at all.
Meh, what ever. If the goal of the year book is to represent the people at the time, let it do that.
She's so lame looking she probably couldn't get a job as a hooker if she wanted too.
Hot. She could get it. This isn't the most yearbook savvy picture though.
That's why our high school had rules. No hands.
I feel that it is inappropriate. If the school has a dress code I would hold the photos that go into the yearbook against that code. If this is something that would be allowed to be worn (which I certainly hope it isn't), I would say the picture has no reason to be in that yearbook. What do those parents think they are doing? They certainly aren't helping their daughter! If anything they are ruining her reputation, they should be protecting her.
Yeah...I wouldn't want my daughter putting pictures like that in the yearbook. It's not the appropriate venue for that.
I cannot see how that is appropiate for a yearbook. It's not so much the dress, as the pose. It's highly suggestive.
Idk, my yearbook featured girls in bikinis on a summer-themed page. This seems tame by comparison.