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list of things my school required girls to do, which now feels like a fever dream
• wear hair in a braid if it was longer than exactly 6 inches in a ponytail. they’d check with a ruler
• wear maroon hair ties only. if u wore any other color, u were punished & made to buy one
• wear hair in a braid if it was longer than exactly 6 inches in a ponytail. they’d check with a ruler
• wear maroon hair ties only. if u wore any other color, u were punished & made to buy one
• only wear light colored/white bras. if u wore a darker one, they could see through the uniform they made us buy, and humiliated us about it in public
• never dye ur hair any color, even if it was another natural color, even if ur parents didn’t care at all
• never dye ur hair any color, even if it was another natural color, even if ur parents didn’t care at all
• no bangs! if u got bangs, u were made to pin them up, and got punished if u didn’t
• no long nails! they punished u for that too
• force girls to snitch on each other in assembly by making us raise our hands if we noticed the person in front of us had any violations
• no long nails! they punished u for that too
• force girls to snitch on each other in assembly by making us raise our hands if we noticed the person in front of us had any violations
• i very sincerely mean this, but slight eye contact with boys would get u close to a suspension. i genuinely wish i was joking. this seriously fucked up thousands of kids’ ability to ever speak to a person of the opposite gender if u didn’t make an active effort to make friends
• used to lift up girls’ skirts in 7th and 8th grade to make sure they were wearing bike shorts underneath
yeah. I really wish I was joking.
yeah. I really wish I was joking.
• slut shamed girls for having bigger boobs and hitting puberty earlier, or not behaving the way they wanted us to outside school
teachers talked shit abt me in their other classes bc i had friends who were boys OUTSIDE SCHOOL, or wore a saree in a way that they found slutty
teachers talked shit abt me in their other classes bc i had friends who were boys OUTSIDE SCHOOL, or wore a saree in a way that they found slutty
