20 Sep 13-Year-Old Schoolgirl Was Told Her Outfit Was “Too Distracting To Boys”, Dad Has Brutal Response

From an early age, there are a lot of societal expectations placed on girls to look a certain way. I grew up without social media, and I’m glad I did because I can only imagine that the pressure to constantly look good is greater in the age of the selfie.

A sad reality of being female is that we are constantly sexualized, even when we are still children. When I was in a girl guides group as a young teen, I was told to change the skirt I was wearing because it would give boys the “wrong idea” about me.

This sexualization is the reason Tony Alarcon was outraged when he received a call from his 13-year-old daughter Demetra’s middle school saying that he had to bring her a change of clothes because the romper she was wearing (pictured below) was “too distracting to boys”.

Demetra attends Fisher Middle School in Los Gatos, California. It’s no secret that the area frequently has extremely hot weather, and Demetra had decided to wear the above outfit in an attempt to keep cool when she went to school on August 28.

However, what happened to Demetra on this particular day was not an isolated incident. “When I got dress coded one-time last week, they said my bra strap was showing,” Demetra said in an interview with The Mercury News. “Lord forbid I might be wearing a bra.”

Tony was upset not only because his daughter had been told that her outfit was sexual, but because the dress code has made her uncomfortable at school. Now Tony’s taking on Fisher Middle School in a bid to have their stringent and sexist dress code changed.

“I mean, today it’s 90 degrees outside and she’s wearing leggings because she doesn’t want to be dress-coded for wearing shorts,” Demetra’s father Tony said to CBS Local. “And it’s not OK. It needs to change.”

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