JCPenney Employee Sent Home for Wearing ‘Too Short’ Shorts — That She Bought at JCPenney
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The double standard governing women’s bodies: The critique of high school students was echoed by Stoel’s boss, when he claimed her shorts were “too revealing” — despite the fact that they were purchased, amazingly, from JCPenney’s own career section. (Mic has reached out to JCPenney and has not heard back.)
The irony underscores how arbitrary such “dress codes” can be: When a woman’s clothes make a man uncomfortable or are deemed “revealing” by male onlookers, that’s when they’re prohibited.
That standard, Stoel and many other women argue, is based on fundamentally flawed assumptions about women’s bodies and male responsibility.
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“I could’ve lectured [my boss] on feminist theory with an emphasis on body-shaming, but I doubted that my speech would be appreciated,” Stoel noted. “So, I saved that bit for Twitter.”
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