Dress code in schools

• howard mcsweeney1

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  9 April 2018     12:59342216
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  Even Dover college is joining in.
  
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/boys-to-be-allowed-to-wear-skirts-at-leading-boarding-school/ar-AAvD4uv?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartanntp
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• Sue Nicholas

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  9 April 2018     13:09342217
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  The worlds gone mad.Im glad that wasn't the policy when my son was at Dover College.
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• Guest 1933

  • Registered: 30 Nov 2016
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  9 April 2018     13:28342218
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  Standards please Daily Telegraph! I feel the journalist - Joel Adams - needs to hoik up his / her / their trousers / skirt (whichever dress code they decide to express themselves with) and go back to school...Devon College? with instead of which.....
• Captain Haddock

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  9 April 2018     14:31342221
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  Oh dear. Sky News has started a poll of whether people think the offspring will be a boy or a girl (as though there were ONLY two genders plus a load of people with mental health problems!). I can't see the replies going well .....
  
  
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Weird Granny Slater

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  9 April 2018     15:18342227
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  Aren't people are getting their linguistic knickers (or pants, if you prefer) in a twist here. Surely 'gender' is masculine / feminine (or some combination thereof) and is culturally determined. 'Sex', on the other hand, is male / female (and all points in between) and is biologically determined (that's not to say that claims about what constitutes that 'biology' are not, or have not been, problematic: see, e.g., Andreas Vesalius' anatomical drawings).
  
  (Of course, confusingly, 'sex' can also mean that range of intimate activities in which males and females (and all points in between) engage in various combinations. But the less said about that the better. )
  'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
• Button

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  9 April 2018     16:00342232
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  Apparently, gentlemen attending Royal Ascot this year must wear a black or grey morning dress, with shoes and most definitely with socks: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/royal-ascot-2018-style-guide-strict-guidelines-off-shoulder-jumpsuits-a8246346.html (just keep scrolling down).
  
  Fascinating stuff and probably less complicated to be a horse or jockey.
  (Not my real name.)