Tuxedoed lesbian buys ad to get photo in yearbook

local6.com - News - School Board Bans Photo Of Girl Wearing Tux:
"Kelli Davis, 18, had her senior class photo taken in a tuxedo top and bow-tie outfit provided for boys rather than the gown-like drape and pearls provided for girls. The school's principal decided it could not appear in the yearbook because she didn't follow the dress code.
"Kelli, a straight-A student with no discipline problems, is a self-proclaimed lesbian. She said she was uncomfortable to have her chest exposed in the photo."

It is unfortunate that Ms. Davis has decided she is a lesbian, and one suspects that might have had something to do with her attempt to have her senior picture published wearing a man's costume. After all, if she had objected to baring too much skin and offered to appear in a less revealing drape one suspects the administration might have been more flexible in its interpretation of the dress code.

On the other hand, what sort of nonsense is it to impose such a stultifying dress code for a mugshot in the high school yearbook? In my own high school yearbooks in the 1960s in Virginia, and my mother's from the 1930s in Indiana, The boys could wear whatever jacket and tie suited them, and the girls whatever modest dress and jewelry they (or their mothers) thought best.

In this case, the school administration not only refused to have Ms. Davis picture among those of her classmates, they even discharged the yearbook editor for taking Ms. Davis' side in the controversy. But they were willing to accept $700 from Ms. Davis' family to buy a two page ad in the yearbook that will include Ms. Davis' photo in all her tuxedoed glory. This may be a victory for something, although I don't know what, but it certainly wasn't for any principle I can discern.

Prediction: This may encourage other students who would like to make a fashion, lifestyle or political statement to buy ads in future yearbooks so that they can appear in a photograph that represents their unique character and rejects the cookie-cutter mentality of our government indoctrination centers to which they have by then been exposed for 12-15 years.