As spring approaches, students in schools across America will begin to strip down and wear cooler clothes. However, many schools will impose a specific limit on the number of diapers students can shed this year, with strict dress codes promoting modesty. Although compliance with clothing requirements is mandatory for male and female students, the main goal of the dress code appears to be more about covering the female body. While the majority of schools resort to enforcing "dress codes" to discourage gang behavior and promote uniformity within the student body, they ultimately reinforce the outdated idea that women's bodies distracts attention from sexual objects that need to be concealed. What do dress codes say? on the female body? The majority of restrictions accompanying school clothing requirements apply only to women. Schools across the country have banned items revealing the female figure, from leggings to strapless dresses (Brown, 2005). One of the main ideas behind these restrictions is to avoid “distracting” other students (i.e. males). Even though men's behavior is excused, these dress codes place all the blame on women to ensure that their bodies are not seen as an inherent sexual threat by their classmates. » When you tell a girl what to wear (or force her to do so (cover up with an oversized T-shirt), you are controlling her body. When you control a girl’s body – even if it’s ostensibly for her “own good” – you take away her free will. You tell him that his body does not belong to him (Valenti, 2013). “Forcing women to cover their bodies not only takes away their ownership of it, but forces them to view themselves as hypersexualized individuals who must be tamed. This view can lead women to be... middle of paper ...... suggestion of cleavage. This is not the case. Suggesting that the intellectual abilities of male students are too limited to concentrate in the presence of cleavage is also insulting to men. It is dangerous to think that a boy who would never have used this excuse for his lack of concentration could hear his teachers preparing it for him and then start using it himself. While men are far less distracted by women's exposed bodies than many schools give them credit for. , the idea that women are responsible for the behavior of both sexes is dangerous. Asking women to cover up is a superficial solution to much more socially rooted problems, such as misogyny and rape culture (Valenti, 2013). As long as a woman is always sexualized, no matter how much she hides, she will always be blamed for her inappropriate behavior..