Kim Kardashian style waning: I'm flabbergasted at degree of crass sexism shown by Queen's University of Belfas
If it wasn't for the reference to Kim Kardashian you'd have thought Queen's had fallen into a time warp. "Think Grace Kelly, not Kim Kardashian" - that was one of the university's unsolicited "style tips" to female graduates.
"Short skirts and cleavage on show are totally out of the question," the Queen's website instructed, before thinking better of it and hastily withdrawing the guidance from public view.
Don't dress like Kim Kardashian: that's the key message to women students.
Keep your breasts under wraps, don't expose your derriere, and definitely no topless selfies outside the Whitla Hall.
Even in the 1950s, the Grace Kelly era, I think universities might have thought twice about telling women what to wear to their graduation ceremonies.
But in 2016, such crass, blatant sexism is, frankly, flabbergasting.
Most women do not turn up for their graduations in dresses slit to the navel.
But even if someone did, that would still be entirely her own affair.
Likewise if she arrived in a binbag with a belt round it. It is absolutely not the business of the institution to instruct women in approved standards of personal appearance.
It cannot dictate that certain ways of dressing are "totally out of the question", which it seems to have belatedly realised. But the fact that the advice was posted on the website in the first place is alarming.
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If it wasn't for the reference to Kim Kardashian you'd have thought Queen's had fallen into a time warp. "Think Grace Kelly, not Kim Kardashian" - that was one of the university's unsolicited "style tips" to female graduates.
"Short skirts and cleavage on show are totally out of the question," the Queen's website instructed, before thinking better of it and hastily withdrawing the guidance from public view.
Don't dress like Kim Kardashian: that's the key message to women students.
Keep your breasts under wraps, don't expose your derriere, and definitely no topless selfies outside the Whitla Hall.
Even in the 1950s, the Grace Kelly era, I think universities might have thought twice about telling women what to wear to their graduation ceremonies.
But in 2016, such crass, blatant sexism is, frankly, flabbergasting.
Most women do not turn up for their graduations in dresses slit to the navel.
But even if someone did, that would still be entirely her own affair.
Likewise if she arrived in a binbag with a belt round it. It is absolutely not the business of the institution to instruct women in approved standards of personal appearance.
It cannot dictate that certain ways of dressing are "totally out of the question", which it seems to have belatedly realised. But the fact that the advice was posted on the website in the first place is alarming.
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