{"id":15948,"date":"2020-10-19T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/?p=15948"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T11:13:28","slug":"against-sexism-and-homophobia-hundred-students-wear-skirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/against-sexism-and-homophobia-hundred-students-wear-skirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Against sexism and homophobia: Hundred students wear skirts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students of a Canadian high school set an important signal: In protest against a sexist school dress code, toxic masculinity and homophobia, they showed a lot of courage and even more leg.<\/p>\n

Bullying at schools is a big problem. Gender roles defined by society and toxic masculinity can make school a nightmare for many queer children. This is not the only significant aspect of the Canadian students’ action – they also stood up against sexism and for gender equality. A real all-round blow!<\/p>\n

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Female students at the Coll\u00e8ge Nouvelles Fronti\u00e8res in Gatineau, Quebec in Canada are not allowed to wear skirts that finish more than 10 cm above the knee according to school regulations. That there is no similar regulation for boys’ shorts – is for Zachary Paulin and his classmates – in casual words – sexist crap.<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old Paulin had an idea: In protest against the conservative rule and for the freedom of every human being to wear whatever he or she wanted without sexist gender coercion, he wanted to put on a skirt. He told around 30 people about the idea – but he never thought it would take on as it did, as he told the Canadian broadcasting company CBC.<\/p>\n

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\u2b07\ufe0fEnglish version in comments\u2b07\ufe0f Voici le texte original que j\u2019ai lu a\u0300 l\u2019interphone aujourd\u2019hui: \u00ab\u00a0Bonjour a\u0300 tous et a\u0300 toutes, Aujourd\u2019hui, certains d\u2019entre vous ont probablement remarque\u0301 que des garc\u0327ons, comme moi, portaient la jupe. Eh bien, laissez moi vous parler du pourquoi de ce geste. En gros, le fait qu\u2019un garc\u0327on porte la jupe est un signe de re\u0301silience, de solidarite\u0301 et de support a\u0300 la bataille intersectionelle d\u2019e\u0301galite\u0301 des sexes. Le double standart sur la fac\u0327on dont laquelle une femme et un homme devraient se pre\u0301senter aux yeux de la socie\u0301te\u0301 est flagrant; si une femme porte un complet et des pantalons, ve\u0302tements associe\u0301s a\u0300 la masculinite\u0301, on n\u2019y pense pas plus que c\u0327a. Mais a\u0300 cause de la masculinite\u0301 toxique, le moment qu\u2019un garc\u0327on va faire quoique ce soit de fe\u0301minin, que se soit se mettre du vernis a\u0300 ongle, du maquillage, ou dans notre cas, une jupe, il se fait pointer du doigt et bombarder d\u2019insultes. On va dire qu\u2019il n\u2019est pas un vrai homme et on va imme\u0301diatement assumer son orientation sexuelle. Aussi, la jupe repre\u0301sente parfois un moyen pour certains e\u0301tablissements scolaires d\u2019abuser du code vestimentaire inconsciemment. Les agresseurs, tant qu\u2019a\u0300 eux, vont excuser leur geste en sexualisant les femmes inutilement et grossie\u0300rement. Donc, en portant la jupe, nous sommes solidaires aux femmes de la socie\u0301te\u0301 qui se font constamment sexualiser et a\u0300 qui ont dit de cacher le corps, et nous lanc\u0327ons un message contre la masculinite\u0301 toxique qui empe\u0302che les garc\u0327ons d\u2019e\u0302tre ce qu\u2019ils sont vraiment sans jugement. On est en 2020, et nous a\u0300 NF, on est ouvert sur le monde; c\u2019est-a\u0300-dire qu\u2019on n\u2019accepte pas c\u0327a la discrimination, l\u2019homophobie et le sexisme. C\u2019est ce que repre\u0301sente notre jupe. Merci.\u00a0\u00bb #jupepourtous<\/a><\/p>\n

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