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Showing posts with label Yearbook. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
High School Senior SLAMS Sexist Dress Code with Scathing Yearbook Quote
Yearbook quotes used to just be little cute ways of being remembered or sharing jokes with friends.
Now, in the age of social media, many students hope to be able to share their sense of humor or their ingenuity with thousands of people who never attended their school. Sometimes, it works, and their photo and quote get shared all across the world.
One student’s yearbook photo has gone viral for making a hilarious point about sexist dress codes.
When Tori DiPaolo tweeted this photo from the yearbook, she included a caption.
“Tori: 1; Dress Code: 0.”
She wasn’t just congratulating herself for an entertaining quote that poked fun at the hypocrisy of school photos that bare those scandalous shoulders when the school itself bans them.
She’s apparently waged a lengthy battle against the school’s outrageously sexist dress code policies.
“Over the past four years, myself and many of my friends have received dress code violations for clothes that were nowhere near inappropriate.”
That’s all too common.
And while many students are quick to blame teachers for reporting them for their “offenses,” they should realize that most teachers only do so for fear of getting into trouble if they don’t report dress code violations.
“I became a bit infamous around school for fighting the administration about dress code, so I figured I’d use my senior quote as one final jab.”
Great callbacks to your reputation are a great way to use a yearbook quote.
Second only to the folks who use their yearbook quotes to come out of the closet.
“I just found it funny that the outfits for senior portraits technically violated the dress code by exposing our shoulders, so I saw my opportunity and ran with it.”
Funny, yes … but not funny haha, you know?
Dress codes can be especially onerous in the south, where soaring temperatures can combine with humidity to make even a tee shirt feel like its smothering its wearers.
But no matter the location, dress codes are clearly and aggressively based on gender discrimination.
“It’s all based on sexism, and it is completely unreasonable.”
She’s not pulling that out of nowhere.
So much of dress codes has to do with the idea that a girl’s bare shoulders or, gasp, if her tee shirt rides up, will distract the boys in the classroom.
You know, because shoulders and the small of your back have magic powers that force boys to stop paying attention.
One of my favorite anecdotes about girls responding to stupid sexist dress code enforcement was a girl who was told that her bra strap was showing so she needed to change outfits who then reached under her shirt and removed her bra.
All the while without breaking eye contact with the teacher.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Or bras.
“There have been a number of incidents where I was called into the office due to what I was wearing. Whether it was my bra strap showing, or my midriff being a quarter inch exposed, administration always gave me a problem.”
Pulling her out of class and wasting her time when she could have been learning.
Shame on them.
Like, the idea of a dress code makes sense, but basically you should just need to wear clothing that wouldn’t get you banned from Instagram or, like, a McDonald’s.
That’s just part of life.
Instead, students — most of whom are in the middle of growth spurts and many of whom may not come from families who can afford to be picky about clothes — are expected to go above and beyond.
Because apparently certain parts of the human arm are just too darn sexual.
(But in ways that only impact boys)
Policies are inconsistently enforced, so a girl might only get in trouble for her attire after having worn it a dozen times before, thinking that it wasn’t a problem.
The most insidious part of how dress codes are enforced is that, in case she might distract boys from their educations, girls are called out of class or even sent home.
Which effectively prioritizes the educations of hypothetical boys who lack basic self-control skills.
The fact that girls are supposed to be responsible for their male classmates’ educations is ludicrous, but it’s enshrined in countless dress codes across the country.
That kind of thinking is only a few steps below “that witch hexed me into lusting after her!”
DiPaolo isn’t the only students or former student to have expressed these concerns or fought this battle.
There have been viral stories, like that parent of a female student who invited the school’s principal to go shopping with them to see how absurd the dress code was an how difficult it was to meet.
There are adults fighting similar battles against what’s considered inappropriate for grown women vs what men are allowed to do.
There are even cases where men are directly impacted — right now in Europe, there are numerous men wearing skirts to protest their companies’ bans on wearing shorts during soaring temperatures.
Though, honestly, skirts have to be way more comfortable.
Maybe they’ll stick with them.
And maybe society should care a little less about how people decorate their meat prisons.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
"Bachelorette" Star Peter Kraus" High School Yearbook Shows He Wanted "Bachelor" Fame
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
Arizona Student Flashes Penis in Yearbook, Gets Arrested
Move over, Florida Man.
And make room for… Arizona Teen!
According to Reuters, a student at Red Mountain High School in Phoenix got arrested this week after he pulled out his penis for a yearbook photo.
Editors apparently did not notice the unit just hanging out of the football player’s pants… ran the revealing photo… and were then inundated with complaints after it was printed in all of the school’s yearbooks.
HA!
The yearbooks were printed for approximately 3,400 students, but only about 250 books had gone out at the time the school was made aware of the exposed penis.
The school really hopes to get back all of these yearbooks, while each one still in the school’s possession will be edited to cover the inappropriate content.
The student, meanwhile, is named Hunter Osborn.
He is 19 years old and he told authorities that he was acting on a dare from a fellow football player.
There are actual court documents of the case that state Hunter “exposed his penis through the top of his waistband of his football uniform pants.”
We’ve shared a censored version of the offending image above.
Osborn was released from custody on Sunday after being his arrest.
He faces 69 counts of misdemeanor indecent exposure and one count of felony furnishing harmful items to minors because 59 students – ranging in age from 15 to 19 years old – and 10 faculty members were present at the time he pulled out his junk.
The senior is yet to address this incident in public.
However, told police in an interview that he knowingly exposed himself… yet was “disgusted by what he had done.”
We somehow doubt that. We’re guessing he was highly entertained by what he had done.
But we understand why that statement may not have gone over well with the cops.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Blac Chyna Shares "Chubby Face" Yearbook Pic!
While most folks would rather keep their yearbook photos buried deep in a closet at their mom’s house, Blac Chyna is openly sharing hers.
Rocking straight blond(ish) hair, minimal makeup and one of those traditional black, off-the-shoulder drapey things they make the girls wear on picture day, the model recently shared this pic to Instagram:
“Girl bye… Chubby face… 17 years old,” she wrote in the caption.
Looking like a typical high schooler, Blac (known as Angela White back in the day) appears adorable yet far less glam than we usually see her.
However, her face is still pretty much the same when you compare it to this makeup-free photo her boyfriend Rob Kardashian recently shared:
Okay, maybe she lost a little of the “chubby face.”
Blac posted the throwback pic on the evening of Rob’s family birthday party at Nobu in Malibu – the one she was conspicuously absent from.
We don’t know if she wasn’t invited or she opted out, but it looks as though Rob’s family is still not quite ready to accept her just yet.
Of course, Blac’s baby daddy Tyga was there with her arch nemesis Kylie Jenner, so her presence may have been a tad awkward.
Still, Rob picked Blac to spend most of his special day with.
The two celebrated the day before his birthday at Legoland, and she was with him on the day of his birthday as well, when they kept it low key with a cheat-day trip to In-N-Out Burger.
Whether makeup-free or ultra glam, it looks like Rob’s affection for Blac is only growing stronger.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
For the Nguyen: Asian Students Pull Off Epic Yearbook Prank!
We thought that high school senior who posed in mesmerizing fashion with a cat came up with the greatest yearbook photo idea of all-time.
But we apparently spoke too soon.
Heck, even that gay high school student’s farewell quote now must take a backseat.
Because a quartet of Vietnamese high school students just won the Internet via a photo that was shared this week on Reddit, presenting in the form “/funny” without comment.
But no comment is really needed here to explain the hilarious motivation.
As you can see above, all four young women share the last name Nguyen.
And we’re guessing they’ve been asked about a gajillion times whether they are related and why they look the same and other stereotypes often associated with Asian-Americans.
So Alice, Kim, Theresa and Vivian took it upon themselves to get the last laugh, using space typically reserved for inspirational quotes to write a single word each:
WE. ARE. NOT. RELATED.
HA! We love it!
We don’t know if this slipped past school administrators or if the administrators were totally cool with it or what.
All we know is that it’s totally awesome, a much better use of this space than whatever overwrought Theroux quote their classmates probably chose instead.
(Editor’s Note: The name “Nguyen” is pronounced similar to “win,” making our headline totally genius. We’re just saying.)
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