A High School Girl Got Kicked Out Of Prom For Wearing A Dress Too Revealing And Was Told By A Teacher 'Us Big Girls Gotta Cover Up'

Someecards – But for Amy Steverson, her reminisces of the over-rated high school event will be filled with body-shaming, because that was the theme of prom for this high school senior. According to Cosmopolitan, the Maryville High student wore a kickass dress to prom that her school didn’t approve of because their standards make no sense.

Steverson was first denied entry because of her “revealing” dress. If you’re baffled at what seems revealing about this tasteful dress, Tiffani Taylor, a mother of one of Steverson’s friends, wrote a Facebook post elucidating that the school felt there was too much cleavage going on. Only after being shamed for her body and tossing on her Vice Principal’s tux jacket was the girl allowed into prom.

I feel like every year these “This girl got kicked out of prom because the school said her dress was too revealing” stories happen and every year I’m more and more baffled by it. Several years ago it was girls wearing dresses that were like labia-out-at-da-club attire getting kicked out and it’s like, okay, makes sense. Then it was chicks with their stomach showing or too much of their back showing and it seems kind of dumb. But now it’s just girls wearing a dress with her shoulders exposed and a whatever amount of cleavage? Do they want them coming to prom in some sort of genderless jumpsuit from a sci fi movie? Either have clear cut guidelines in advance and tell all the students or let them live if they’re not inadvertently creating underaged pornography with their outfit choices. It’s much simpler.

But also this one blows my mind because it’s sort of a political correctness standoff. You’ve got schools acting overly sensitive and banning dresses because God forbid a teenager sees an inch of skin on someone besides the billions of hours spent online watching porn. And on the other side you’ve got both the “You can’t call her a big girl, she’s totally happy with who she is!” crowd and the “her body is just doing what her body intended” feminist-y types along with probably a cameo from some #FreeTheNipple aficionados who’d be in on her expressing her body however she wants even if she wore a Missy Elliot suit made of Saran Wrap. On paper it seems like an easy and deserved victory for Team Prom Dress but this is Tennessee and repression is the name of the game.

Lastly the biggest loser here is definitely the teacher who said “Us big girls gotta cover up.” I bet she was genuinely trying to console and help this crying girl but instead she’s the one getting headlines across the country because she’s doing all the shit a teacher is not supposed to do with imposing limitations on some girl who may not even consider herself a “big girl.” The vice principal or principal could claim they were just doing their job and enforcing whatever policy but the dumb husky teacher who tried to help 100% will lose her job over it. Big girls gotta shut up next time I guess.