Rant: Gender separation for graduation

I don't blame you one bit. And I guess I just don't understand why everyone has to be separated in the first place. I've never graduated in a ceremony before (homeschooled in high school) but from the little experience I have with graduation ceremonies, why not just group everyone alphabetically anyway so it's easier for everyone to come on stage as they're called?

But I'm sorry, man, and I know it sucks. Congrats for graduating though and here's hoping that when you get to college (if you plan on it), you'll get to be yourself walking on the stage.

 

Congratulations on graduating!

It seems to me the issue is not the color but the association. You could have the prettiest color belong to the girls and the ugliest color for the guys and I'm pretty sure you'd still want "the ugly one."

 

I honestly don't know why society likes to separate every little thing based on gender, especially now that they know gay people exist they can't play the "What if they're attracted to eachother?!" card.

If they separated it based on race for example, there would be an uproar.

At least this particular school lets students who are out wear the right one, seems like most don't even do that.

 

My students are kind of upset that boys wear blue and girls white. And those colors to those genders only.

I wonder what the trans boy will get...

 

Yikes, that would annoy me so much. I hate it when things are divided by gender. I'm glad at my school it's the same color for everyone.

Exactly. >.<

 

Make everyone wear purple :lol:.

 

I had to wear a white robe at my high school graduation since I was still female at the time. It's so annoying that something like this is separated by gender. I don't get why people think that this is such a good idea.

 

That's dumb. Gender seperation is stupid and it's ridiculous that it's still socially acceptable at all.

 

Yes, congratulations on graduating!

But also yes, this sounds like a completely stupid tradition rooted in nothing much, thought up for some twisted sense of cute. Why not just hand the damned gowns out randomly, if one color is undesirable enough that nobody (or far less than half the graduates) would choose it?

I'm infuriated on your behalf. One more thing to hate about our culture.

 

Congrats on graduation! I'm sorry to hear about the gender segregated colors for our robes though, that really is shitty. I really want to see more schools move away from that towards a single color or allowing all students to choose which color they want.

 

I don't know if it would help at all, but since you're school's accepting, maybe they would listen if you talked about this with someone in charge, or wrote a letter perhaps explaining why it isn't a good system and how you feel, etc.
Even if it's too late to change it for this year, maybe they would consider it for next year's students.

Anyway, sorry you have to deal with that:/ But good luck with graduation and all!

 

It would've been better if they segregated by color. That way people can choose which color they'd want. It isn't as if both lines will be equal right? I mean are there equal number of guys and girls? I don't think so right OP?

 

Black.

 

I get uncomfortable too when my class gets separated based on gender.

 

Guess it's a good thing we don't wear robes when we graduate high school in the UK. We just doodled messages on each other's shirts on our last day. Someone drew a penis on mine.

 

They still do that over there?
Where I live it went out of style a year ago.
(drawing dicks on everything; doodling wont go out of fashion for a long time)