I’m talking mainly in regards to a story about a cross-dressing teen who was told by the school that he could not wear a dress to prom. This is not a new phenomenon where gay, bi, aardvark, or whatever sexual preference individual decides to wear something outside of the bounds of an established dress code. Guys dressing as girls, girls as guys, or somewhere in-between the mix on the lines of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
What gets me is that in every case I've seen crop up on the news each of these individuals who are challenging the time-old dress codes all chant the same dang thing, “everyone should be treated equally.” That astounds me as they are indeed getting treated equal to everyone else bound by the dress code. Every last student attending the prom is bound by the same dress code. They are all treated equally. If you do not abide by the dress-code you do not attend. Simple as that.
If I were to take a job working in a formal business setting where the dress-code of the company is established in the employee manual as what I could and could not wear. Does it make sense for me to put on fishnets, dye my hair green, and go into work wearing a bra thinking I wouldn’t get fired? Better yet would it make any more difference what my sexual preference is? I’d be fired. I would be fired because everyone is treated equally. If i break the dress-code, regardless of sexual preference, I’d get fired. Equally so would be anyone else who decided one morning they wanted to be treated equally by making a statement via wardrobe resulting in the same outcome.
At least in this case Ellen isn’t bringing the individual onto the morning talk show, applauding their individuality, and excusing it as fighting for a ‘cause’. Better yet this person isn’t getting a fat check from Ellen for their courageous statement. At least not yet. What is up with this country? Why on Earth do people think this has anything to do with equality? That’s basically the fit-all excuse to allow an individual to get what they, the individual, want.
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