Posted in freedom of speech, you WHAT?, tagged body image, children, choice, culture, discrimination, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, gender roles, human rights on 10 November 2009|
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The title of this post says it all. See the SMH’s article for more detail. (By the way, SMH, I fixed that passive-voiced headline for you!)
Look, I’m not pissed off that the Catholic school has suspended the student for shaving her head as a fundraiser for cancer. I’m pissed off that the Catholic school has suspended the student for shaving her head. The school is, essentially, discriminating against her on the basis that she is now not expressing gender “correctly”, in their eyes. That’s basically what “dress code policy” means.
I should add that I’m not making any assumptions or implications about the gender that the student intends to express – I’m pointing out that the school is.
The fact that she’s done it for a good cause just adds a layer of hypocrisy to the stupidity of the Catholic school’s actions. (It also makes it a bit more of a freedom of expression aspect, in the sense of political expression.)
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