Boss sent me home for wearing "too revealing" shorts that I bought from the store I work at in the career section. pic.twitter.com/vrAnN4beC2
— Sylva (@queenfeminist) Hulyo 24, 2015
The employee, seventeen-year-old Sylvia Stoel did what any seventeen-year-old would do in this situation — she went to Twitter to air her grievances. Sharing pictures of herself in the aforementioned "career shorts," Stoel posed with a smile on her face in one shot and flipped the bird in another. And not only is this young woman NOT wearing shorts that could be deemed "too revealing", but she's also in the most patriotic outfit I've ever seen that wasn't being worn on the Fourth of July. HOW DARE YOU SEND HOME A PROUD PATRIOT, JC PENNY? BY DOING SO, YOU LET THE TERRORISTS — AS WELL AS THE MISOGYNISTS — WIN!
In an email to the Huffington Post, Stoel explained, "I told [my manager] that I thought it was unfair to send me home due to the fact that I had purchased the shorts from JC Penney's own career section, but he insisted that I go home and change anyways." She went on to explain that while she was only warned against wearing spaghetti straps, denim, short skirts and t-shirts when she was hired, she was not told that career shorts were prohibited. She also noted that she'd seen many male co-workers violate their own denim and men's undershirts bans, but had never seen any of them sent home to change. WELL THAT'S A SHOCKER.
This story has a happy ending, though, because Stoel QUIT THAT JOB AND IS NOW GONNA BE INTERNET FAMOUS ALLLLLLLL DAY, JC PENNY! On the other hand, in a way this is also a happy ending for JC Penny, because this thing has given them more publicity than they've had in 150 years — coincidentally, the last time a person actually shopped at a JC Penny. Now, that would have been 1865, the same year John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. COINCIDENCE???!!!! I think not. That's right, it wasn't the career shorts that sent her home — it was HER PATRIOTISM!!! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN.
In all seriousness, all of these unfair, hypocritical, misogynistic dress code rules against women and girls in the workplace and the schoolplace need to stop. That is why I've written this entire article wearing NO PANTS. *Mic Drop*