17-Year-Old Girl Told to Put Band-Aids on Her Nipples Because She Was 'Distracting' Boys

  • da: Care2 Team
  • destinatario: Braden River High School and Manatee County School Board
Yet another young girl has been sexualized and penalized simply for existing. Lizzy Martinez went to school in a gray shirt and without a bra. Then young boys starting talking about it and she was pulled from class and told to put bandaids on her nipples because she was violating the sexist dress code and distracting the boys. The boys were not punished. 

Sign on to change this sexist dress code and be sure justice is served to all who shamed this young girl.

Bras are very uncomfortable. I often do not wear a bra. It is no surprise or problem that Lizzy didn't want to wear one. It's also no surprise that the young men around her have not been taught that they are in charge of their thoughts, words and actions. That's why a male student went to the office and reported her. Her third period teacher, an adult (supposedly), also "reported" her. 

She was then pulled from class and sent to the nurse's office, where the nurse gave her four bandaids to cover her nipples. Then they made her wear a different shirt and jump up and down to see how visible her nipples were.

Lizzy says she went into the bathroom and just cried. She was shocked and embarrassed and violated. All because OTHER PEOPLE's experience of her appearance. She was shamed and punished simply for existing.


I would like to see the teacher and the nurse given a three-day suspension for their actions. Sending the message to a young girl that her education, dignity and bodily autonomy are less important than her male peers' is unacceptable. 

But the real culprit here is a sexist dress code. Women's bodies are targeted and sexualized unfairly. 

Lizzy wasn't rocking an obscene image on her shirt or wearing a hotdog costume. She was a young woman, dressed in normal clothes. The only reason people deemed her "a distraction" is because she has breasts. Well, tough titties, Braden River High. Most women have 'em and you don't get to police the way she does or does not externally support them. Lizzy is still feeling too uncomfortable to return to school knowing that a teacher was so phased by seeing her boob jiggle that she was reported for it. 

Now the school wants to add a specific thing to their dress code requiring a bra. But will they require men to wear pasties such that their nipples cannot be seen when hard? I doubt it.
Aggiorna #15 anni fa
Update: the school has done nothing. But Lizzy is telling her story and you’ve got to read it. Keep sharing the petition. They don’t get to shame her and other young girls like this and get away with it.
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