GOP proposes dress code for female politicians?

[CWSmith]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry:

'Lost their minds': Missouri Dems cry foul over GOP-proposed dress code for female state lawmakers

The Missouri House of Representatives has started off 2023 receiving scrutiny nationwide as they have debated the proper attire that women legislators should wear when they are on the floor of the Capitol in Jefferson City, reports the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

The state of Missouri, which was under the nation's critical eye during the racial discrimination protests at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2015 and 2016, in the immediate aftermath of the Michael Brown killing in St. Louis, has now garnered attention for their House of Representatives for opening a debate that many female lawmakers have decried as sexist.

In this particular case, the Missouri state legislature is considering a ban on women's apparel that exposes bare arms.

St. Louis Democrat Pete Merideth roasted his Republican colleagues for even making this a topic of discussion.

"The caucus that lost their minds over the suggestion that they should wear masks during a pandemic to respect the safety of others is now spending its time focusing on the fine details of what women have to wear (and specifically how many layers must cover their arms) to show respect in this chamber," Merideth tweeted.

Merideth said the debate originated in last year's session when several lawmakers thought that select female legislators were not dressing up to the legislative standards. The previous dress code allowed women to wear dresses, skirts or slacks with a blazer or sweater along with "appropriate" dress shoes or boots. The current rules make female legislators wear a second layer over a dress or a top, with many legislators preferring to wear shawls or other apparel.

Republican Representative Brenda Shields of St. Joseph accidentally touched off the debate when she requested that lawmakers change the dress code to allow cardigans be defined as jackets. After the debate, the amendment was allowed to stay in, and female legislators can cover their arms with cardigans.

Kansas City Democrat Representative Jamie Johnson called out the debate as ludicrous and unnecessary on Twitter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...5ee9e6cdbdc457

[ron ll]

Welcome to the Taliban.

[Joe (SoCal)]

When is the hippy pendulum gonna swing away from this Bull**** ?

[skuthorp]

I think they might find themselves on very dangerous ground.

[ron ll]

I think they might find themselves on very dangerous ground.

How long have we been saying that now?

[Keith Wilson]

Satire has become impossible.

[hawkeye54]

Can't get Jim Jordan to wear a suit jacket - and we are expecting women legislators to cover their arms ? ?

[Nicholas Carey]

Can't get Jim Jordan to wear a suit jacket - and we are expecting women legislators to cover their arms ? ?

Nekkid girl skin be terrifying.

[Breakaway]

If they were smart, they would just crank the AC. They'd get what they want without saying a word.

Kevin

[wizbang 13]

It’s that uppity troublemaker AOC .
make ‘em wear those Japanese schoolgirl uniforms.

[hawkeye54]

If they were smart, they would just crank the AC. They'd get what they want without saying a word.

Kevin

It 'may' just have something to do with that pesky 4th word from the beginning of your post . . . . I can't be sure

[Garret]

It's about control: 1) controlling women & 2) they can't control themselves. Pitiful excuses for human beings.

[Rigadog]

How about a Hooters get up?

[Bflat]

How about burkas?

[Peerie Maa]

[Too Little Time]

They had a prior dress code for women. Perhaps they had one for men also. Once one has accepted a dress code for both genders, it is difficult to make a claim that a dress code is not appropriate.

[John Smith]

GOPstopo?

[SchoonerRat]

Satire has become impossible.

Difficult, but not impossible!

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...o-give-it-back

[AlanMc]

whining about a dress code now? lets have our nations law makers show up to work in some flip flops, swim trunks, and sleeveless muscle shirts.

[leikec]

If politicians do their jobs and actually govern wisely I could care less about flip flops.

Jeff C

[stromborg]

As a state Missouri is:
#42 in healthcare
#30 in education
#45 in crime

And they are arguing over how long female legislator's sleeves need to be? DSE

[George Jung]

Again, it's a control issue. Notice no such interest in what 'the men' wear.

[WI-Tom]

whining about a dress code now? lets have our nations law makers show up to work in some flip flops, swim trunks, and sleeveless muscle shirts.

Hey, as long as they can bring their guns! Right?

Tom

[willin woodworks]

Thats why they want the second layer on the women, to hide the holsters....

[skuthorp]

Woman legislators wearing a sleveless blouse could bring an AR to the session and dare anyone to raise the subject. Seems that's where this is going.

[stromborg]

Maybe all the female legislators (there are 57 of them) should show up in burqas one day and ask if that is acceptable?

[Joe (SoCal)]

Why are men so afraid of women ?

[hawkeye54]

Post # 27, Joe - this has been so for possibly 3000 years ! ! !

[John Meachen]

I know nothing of the proportions in the assembly,but it would amuse me if the female contingent was large enough to insist that dresses had to be worn in the chamber-by everybody.Odd in a way that the Taliban are terrified of educated women and a bunch of Missouri politicians find just their arms to be such a threat to their functioning as an administration.

[SaltyD from BC]

Well if they want a dress code might as well make it interesting hoodies and leather biker vests only. Face tats optional.
I can't believe anyone would have the gall to suggest such a stupid thing let alone try to make it so.

[Garret]

whining about a dress code now? lets have our nations law makers show up to work in some flip flops, swim trunks, and sleeveless muscle shirts.

Fine - though in my experience people behave more professionally when dressed professionally - with obvious exceptions. However, it's the guys on "your team" that are scared of naked arms. God forbid any of the women should show their ankles!

[WI-Tom]

Why are men so afraid of women ?

LYSISTRATA addresses that question, from 411 BCE.

LYSISTRATA There are a lot of things about us women
That sadden me, considering how men
See us as rascals.
CALONICE As indeed we are!

Tom

[WI-Tom]

For what it's worth, most dress codes are egregiously sexist, with far more restrictions for women than for men. This has been an issue in schools for a long time, too.

Tom

[skuthorp]

Hang over from the days when all women were property, and the blood line of succession was important……….. and it still is in some societies.
Males seem never to have gotten over the fact that only women can reproduce their successors. And that they could never be sure that another man might act as they would given the chance.

[David W Pratt]

Doesn't the Second Amendment protect the right to bare arms?