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Mrs. Duncan beckoned her over and escorted her off the dance floor. “She took me into a corner in the hallway, with another woman – who I’m assuming was a parent chaperone – and told me that some of the dads who were chaperoning had complained that my dancing was too provocative and that I was going to cause the young men at the prom to think impure thoughts,” Clare wrote in a blog post. It seems like the dads were the ones thinking impure thoughts. If anyone should be sent home, shouldn't it be the people staring? Furthermore, saying her outfit causes "impure thoughts" isn't much of a stretch from "she asked for it" when people blame victims of sexual assault for what they were wearing. Are the thoughts and actions of young men and their fathers really her responsibility? According to the school, yes. Well, Clare wasn't going to take this lying down. It was time to fight back.
She and her friends tried to reason with them. Visibly upset and with tears rolling down her cheeks, Clare and her group of friends were all thrown out of the prom "because I stuck out," she wrote. "I have long legs and I was wearing a sparkly dress, I didn’t look like most of the 13-15 year old girls there, I looked like a woman. I am so tired of people who abuse their power to make women feel violated and ashamed." “I was told that the way I dressed and moved my body was causing men to think inappropriately about me, implying that it is my responsibility to control other people’s thoughts and drives,” said Claire."We walked out of the prom, frustrated and angry and feeling very disrespected and violated," Clare said. But Clare wouldn't let it end there. She took to the internet to blow the whistle on this injustice, and women the world over heard her message loud and clear."The whole situation made me feel violated, walked over, and ostracized," wrote Clare in a blog post. "How is it that what I look like and how I dress constitutes the level of respect you give me?"
"When the lady kicked me out, they said the dads had complained about my dancing and that meant that they had to have been watching me," Clare fired back. The seventeen-year-old felt that she had been targeted because her body was more mature than those of some of the other girls in the room. "This is a message to girls built like me, who can’t find jeans that fit!" Care wrote in her blog. "The girls with long legs, who are forced to prove that their dresses fit the dress code, just because they have more leg showing then most girls."
“This is a message to the women who understand that sometimes it doesn’t matter how much you pin a dress, you’re still going to have cleavage show when you bend over,” Clare wrote. "Enough with the girl shaming," Clare continued. "I'm not responsible for some perverted 45 years old dad lusting after me because I have a sparkly dress on. And if you think I am, then maybe you're part of the problem."
She and her friends tried to reason with them. Visibly upset and with tears rolling down her cheeks, Clare and her group of friends were all thrown out of the prom "because I stuck out," she wrote. "I have long legs and I was wearing a sparkly dress, I didn’t look like most of the 13-15 year old girls there, I looked like a woman. I am so tired of people who abuse their power to make women feel violated and ashamed." “I was told that the way I dressed and moved my body was causing men to think inappropriately about me, implying that it is my responsibility to control other people’s thoughts and drives,” said Claire."We walked out of the prom, frustrated and angry and feeling very disrespected and violated," Clare said. But Clare wouldn't let it end there. She took to the internet to blow the whistle on this injustice, and women the world over heard her message loud and clear."The whole situation made me feel violated, walked over, and ostracized," wrote Clare in a blog post. "How is it that what I look like and how I dress constitutes the level of respect you give me?"
"When the lady kicked me out, they said the dads had complained about my dancing and that meant that they had to have been watching me," Clare fired back. The seventeen-year-old felt that she had been targeted because her body was more mature than those of some of the other girls in the room. "This is a message to girls built like me, who can’t find jeans that fit!" Care wrote in her blog. "The girls with long legs, who are forced to prove that their dresses fit the dress code, just because they have more leg showing then most girls."
“This is a message to the women who understand that sometimes it doesn’t matter how much you pin a dress, you’re still going to have cleavage show when you bend over,” Clare wrote. "Enough with the girl shaming," Clare continued. "I'm not responsible for some perverted 45 years old dad lusting after me because I have a sparkly dress on. And if you think I am, then maybe you're part of the problem."
