{"id":1771,"date":"2009-11-19T14:27:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T19:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2009-11-19T14:27:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T19:27:27","slug":"gender-blurring-gen-y-gen-z-making-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/11\/19\/gender-blurring-gen-y-gen-z-making-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender-blurring Gen Y & Gen Z Making Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s lots of cross-dressing buzz in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s a semi-biased sample for your consideration:<\/p>\n

Oct. 17: CNN covers Morehouse College’s dress code which “cracks down on\u00c2\u00a0cross-dressing<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Nov. 6: NYT article asks “Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School?<\/a>” and describes U.S. high schools whose dress codes range from enforcing ‘traditional’ norms to allowing for students to more freely express their sex, gender and sexuality through their appearance. Is this a case of those with social\/political power being ‘out of touch’ with changing times?<\/p>\n

Dress code conflicts often reflect a generational divide, with students coming of age in a culture that is more accepting of ambiguity and difference than that of the adults who make the rules.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nov. 7: Sociologist Shari Dworkin’s post on the Sexuality & Society<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0blog<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0adds a more nuanced analysis of Morehouse’s policy and encourages a\u00c2\u00a0complex approach to understanding gender-based dress codes.<\/p>\n

Nov. 18:\u00c2\u00a0My guest-post<\/a> on\u00c2\u00a0the Sexuality & Society<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0blog takes on some of the questions left unasked and unanswered in\u00c2\u00a0that Nov. 6 NYT article about high school dress codes and considers\u00c2\u00a0Dworkin’s arguments.<\/p>\n

What are the overt and covert goals of school dress codes? Are these dress codes developed to ensure that students meet norms of professionalism, or do these serve as tools for schools to enforce heteronormativity and stigmatize transgenderism? Are schools citing safety concerns, warning parents about how to protect youth from harm, or do these intend to distract us from the ways in which dress codes serve to reinforce heterosexist norms? How well can we predict the unintended consequences of dress codes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c both the more \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctraditional\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and more \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcprogressive\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 policies?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today: I read a new NYT article online — in the Fashion & Style<\/em> section — that asserts, “It’s All a Blur to Them<\/a>” and goes on to describe today’s “urban” 20-somethings who,<\/p>\n

are revising standard notions of gender-appropriate dressing, tweaking codes, upending conventions and making hash of ancient norms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So, what are we to think? In early November, we read about\u00c2\u00a0a female high-school senior who was forbidden to wear a tux in her yearbook photo. A couple of weeks later, we read about the growing trend of unisex lines in the fashion world. Does this mix of media coverage reflect that the U.S. remains an ideologically conflicted patchwork of ‘blue’ and ‘red’ Americans? Or, if the generational-change argument holds true, then are we on our way to becoming a society that truly embraces ‘gender fluidity’?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s lots of cross-dressing buzz in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s a semi-biased sample for your consideration: Oct. 17: CNN covers Morehouse College’s dress code which “cracks down on\u00c2\u00a0cross-dressing.” Nov. 6: NYT article asks “Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School?” and describes U.S. high schools whose dress codes range from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,21280,2644,2109,2721,21381,21382,21387,18881,51,71,1976,21611,176,21795,3602,100],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-college","tag-cross-dressing","tag-dress-codes","tag-fashion","tag-femininity","tag-gen-y","tag-gen-z","tag-gender-studies","tag-heterosexism","tag-high-school","tag-intergenerational","tag-masculinity","tag-morehouse-college","tag-sexuality","tag-shari-dworkin","tag-third-wave","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}