http://libertarianrock.com/1999/09/student-in-skirt-challenges-dress-code/ Teenagers live in a totalitarian state. Mandatory schooling. Curfews. Prohibition. Libertarian Rockstars are fighting back. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://libertarianrock.com/1999/09/student-in-skirt-challenges-dress-code/comment-page-1/#comment-434 Charles Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:39:05 +0000 http://libertarianrock.com/wordpress/?p=193#comment-434 Newspaper archives in the U.S. are saturated with accounts from times past of school administrators---and many others---acting to stop any female from wearing any trouser. Women in pants were arrested and taken before magistrates. Editorial writers called for them to be sent to "the best conducted hospitals for the insane" (New York Times, May 27, 1876, page 6 editorial "A Curious Disease.") It's a common error that because there are 2 sexes, they should dress differently. That ONLY applies to the ways in which anatomical interface dictates---bras for women, athletic supporters for men. There are no actual sex differences beyond those. Reason always outrages all conformists. In 2011, the Greek, Fijian and Scottish armies still wear SKIRTS. Screw psychiatry and religious zealotry. Newspaper archives in the U.S. are saturated with accounts from times past of school administrators—and many others—acting to stop any female from wearing any trouser. Women in pants were arrested and taken before magistrates. Editorial writers called for them to be sent to “the best conducted hospitals for the insane” (New York Times, May 27, 1876, page 6 editorial “A Curious Disease.”) It's a common error that because there are 2 sexes, they should dress differently. That ONLY applies to the ways in which anatomical interface dictates—bras for women, athletic supporters for men. There are no actual sex differences beyond those. Reason always outrages all conformists. In 2011, the Greek, Fijian and Scottish armies still wear SKIRTS. Screw psychiatry and religious zealotry.

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