I love the ridiculous news stories that pop up on CNN. Can we talk about the teenage girl who pulled a Paris Hilton-esque exposure in her yearbook photo?
If you haven't seen the story, you can watch the video here. (note: they don't show the exposure. It's not that kind of video, it's the CNN interview.)
I mean, okay. First of all, you are 16 years old. Do not go to school without your britches on. As a matter of fact, do not go anywhere without underwear, period. What did you THINK was going to happen if you wore a tiny little dress with no undies and sat in the front row for a school photo?
And I don't buy the whole "I didn't want to have panty lines" excuse. Victoria's Secret came up with a solution to that problem a long time ago.
I take issue with this entire topic. Even what the girl is wearing in the video offends me. She's being filmed for national television and she wears shorts that are so tiny they virtually disappear when sitting on the couch for the interview. Why would her mother think this is okay? Why did her mother not intervene before now? I mean, at no point did it occur to her to tell her daughter to put some dang clothes on? Let's be honest. The whole dress is inappropriate for high school. No high school student needs to sit in math class with that much cleavage hanging out, let alone wear it to first period with no underwear on. That is ridiculous and should not have to be said.
Does it suck to be 16 and have a money shot in your high school yearbook? Heck yes it does. It's completely mortifying. Should someone have caught that before yearbooks were printed and distributed? Absolutely. But do you know what would have prevented the whole ordeal? WEARING UNDERWEAR TO SCHOOL.
I am an advocate for modesty. Yes, I probably have higher standards for what I think is appropriate clothing for teenagers than most. At 25, I am sure I go against the norm in my outrage. But I honestly don't understand. I don't understand being in the checkout line at Publix and noticing that the junior high aged girl in front of me is wearing shorts so tiny that I can see her cheeks. And not the ones on her face. I don't understand how her parents can be standing there with her oblivious to the fact that their minor child is practically in a state of undress. I don't understand why NO ONE TOLD HER TO CHANGE BEFORE LEAVING THE HOUSE.
If I had attempted to leave the house like that in high school, my mother would have chased me back to my closet with a wooden spoon. And rightly so.
