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‘Young Lady, You’re Distracting the Boys’: How Women Are Losing Their Bodily Autonomy
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‘Young Lady, You’re Distracting the Boys’: How Women Are Losing Their Bodily Autonomy

For me, the selecting of clothes for school always happened subconsciously. I never batted an eye at the fact that I had to measure how short my skirt was just so that the guy next to me (who was more invested in his Nintendo anyway) would not get ‘distracted’ by me. Rules like this are what we’re used to. No one had ever shone a light on how much these rules take away our autonomy. Why is that?

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