Lift The Skirt Campaign: Boys In France Join The Fight Against Sexism By Wearing Skirts

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-05-16 17:25

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'We all know children are the future, and schools in France are using a somewhat unusual way to change attitudes towards sexism in the country.

Education chiefs in the city of Nantes, western France, have caused a stir by inviting male pupils to take a stand against sexism and inequality by wearing skirts to school today (16 May).

We don't know what's more impressive: the fact that this was the brainwave of the boys themselves, or that they'd like to be part of the fight for equality for women.

Considering this is HuffPost UK's month of Men, we couldn't be prouder.

Schoolboys at 27 lycées in the city have been given the option of ditching their trousers for the day and replacing them with a skirt as part of a movement called 'Lift the Skirt' (Ce que soulève la jupe).

For boys who prefer not to take up the option of flashing their legs in front of classmates, they can wear a sticker supporting the event, which reads “I am fighting against sexism, are you?”'

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France is going the way of Sweden it seems. I mean that in the sense that lately the nation seems to be obsessed with gender equality (for women only, of course). I guess the French love to tilt at windmills. I remember coming across a film from France called oppressed majority, in which they try to make it seem like women are treated so poorly by portraying men as child caregivers and women as being a bunch of jackasses. I can't help but wonder if the makers of the film were simply projecting. Nonetheless, it was godawful. I only got through about three minutes of it, before I shut it off out of annoyance.

I find it absolutely laughable that these boys are fighting for "equality for women", in a country where they will grow up to learn that they have no rights to find out for sure if they are the biological father to their kids, by penalty of tens of thousands of Euros. Yeah, it's women's equality we need to fight for in THAT nation. [/s] Sigh. . .

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Submitted by xtrnl on Mon, 2014-05-19 00:41