Just like coffee, tea, and alcohol are considered "habit forming' and "gateway drugs" by the Morg, we now have the latest efforts in eliminating the scourge of "gateway joints" in Utah.

That is, body parts that are too sexy to show in public, lest they lead to lustful thoughts, fornication and the eventual moral decline of the human population.

http://fox13now.com/2014/05/28/students-at-utah-school-upset-to-discover-yearbook-photos-were-altered-before-publication/

Which is your favorite gateway joint? The shoulder, knee, ankle, thigh, midrift or hint of cleavage?

Just saw this on NBC 'Today' morning show...

the panel was all like: "WTF??"

one asked: 'What Country?'



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Oooooh Myyyyyy Gawwwwwd!!!

Is this a public high school? What gives them the right to say that the mormon little-capped-sleeve look is ok but a denim jacket that comes all the way to the end of the shoulder is not? And the ones where they added a dickie look to the front were NOT too low cut. All the original pictures were fine and should have been fine for a yearbook at a public school. And obviously what they were wearing fit the school dress standards or they wouldn't have been wearing it to school.

This just makes me livid. I detest that capped sleeve look. Even now. I wear sleeveless or longer sleeves. And since I'm older now and hate my arms, I rarely wear sleeveless. But that capped sleeve look just reminds me too much of Utah and I can't stand to even wear it myself. They are so frucking arrogant to say that if it wouldn't cover their buttugly underwear, it's immoral for everyone else. The top of a girls arm is not considered an erogenous for anyone but puritanical, self-righteous mormons.

Actually I think cap sleeves make your arms look fatter. Elbow length or longer or no sleeves. Cap draws attention to the flab on my arms. LOL!!!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2641453/Qatars-clothing-modesty-campaign-clarifies-stance-leggings-new-advertising-campaign.html

Maybe Qatar should annex Utah. Or Utah can at least glom onto the advertising campaign....

Qatar thought about it but then realized that those Mormons are just too crazy!

LOL. I'm sure there are many people in SLC who think they should be able to put one of those up at the airport. With a big X if something doesn't cover the top of the arm, if there is any flesh above the kneecap or more than 2 inches from bottom of neck to top of shirt. Oh, and don't forget that if it's a guy you can't have any sockless toes showing. And X out tattoos and more than one piercing.

They were talking about this on the radio this morning. They mentioned how Utah never makes national news for anything noteworthy...it's always something embarrassing like this.

My comment, upon first seeing this article, was that there was a time in history (about 400 years ago) when shoulders and ankles were considered very erotic. It's nice to see TSCC keeping up with the times (anyone who doubts that the photog was a TBM is deluding themselves).

This is an example of total and complete "forceable interferance" In my opinion it is completely unconcionable and done by a hypocritical,sanctimonious,bigot who without honour and of questionable parentage and ancestory!!!

For mormons, any body part covered by garments is considered pornographic, so yes, shoulders = nipples in their twisted little world.

But the most annoying part is that they take their oppressive lifestyle and force it on everyone else. I wonder how many of those girls in the yearbook were non-mormon but were edited (forced) to look like mormons?

Ridiculous.



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Some naked ankle on a nicely formed leg really get my motor running!

Ditto NormaRae,
if you're going to alter people, don't make them uglier! that cap-sleeve under a tank top is the dowdiest look.

It's like drawing mustaches on portraits and wondering why they're angry. I hope those girls and anyone else who want one, can get a refund if requested.

1) The whole thing is silly because I don't see anything in the girls attire that is a problem. LDS ideas of modesty are archaic and do more to objectify than they ever help IMO.


2) That said don't feel that these girls shouldn't too surprised because they knew the rules. Fact is it sometimes sucks to live in Utah if yer not LDS. I know.

That said I had to quickly Photoshop this.
http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/images/modesty-fix.jpg

3) I went the Sacred Gifts exhibition at the BYU museum recently (religious art by Carl Bloch, Heinrich Hofmann, and Frans Schwartz). The art was all beautiful despite the fact that I no longer buy into the narratives and themes anymore. Anyway it reminded me that the LDS Church had applied the 'modesty filter' in Photoshop to one of them in the past.

http://www.dovesandserpents.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/side-by-side.jpg

Hard to see but on they right they put sleeve on the angels shoulders. I find such a disrespect for the artists work a little offensive. Sure I'm fine with stupid photoshop work in irreverent satire (see above) but this modesty stuff is just dumb.

ETA: Interesting to not that it's OK to JCs nipples but not the angels shoulders. What gives?

Then there's this.

http://rationalfaiths.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/primary.jpg

It's just all such a waste of time and energy when real problems are all around.



And then there's this:
http://rationalfaiths.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/36498_417688491597522_180142732018767_73066004_1085869005_n1.jpg



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I love it! The photoshopped burqa tells the whole story

How about a voluntary dress code for participation on the Satanic RFM Board. You have be naked from either the waist down or waist up.

Can you guess my current status?

So much for free agency.
I dislike their nasty little fingers in public school systems and politics. It freaks me out.



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snuckafoodberry Wrote:
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> So much for free agency.
> I dislike their nasty little fingers in public
> school systems and politics. It freaks me out

There is no such thing as "free"...agency. It's just Agency now, and it's not free!

I'm going to do my best to never set foot in Utah again, but if I do, I'll be wearing a tank top and shorts with flip flops. I might even wear a veil.

Ooooh, be careful if you do, the Utaliban is always watching

On the first one, it's obviously to cover up a tattoo. The only one that they might have a reason to do anything to was the one with the bra strap showing, but they should have just made it flesh colored, not put sleeves on her, and then only after contacting her and her parents.

What's not clear is there one dress code for every day school, and one for picture day? Any dress code should be the same for both. If they were in violation of an every day dress code, then they shouldn't have been allowed in school that day (or any day).

Photoshopping school pictures is just wrong. Just another way of Mormon rewriting history to make it what they want, not what it actually is.

Maybe next time they could paint themselves a la Fantasy Fest in FL...

Anyone else see the pics of Rumer Willis walking topless through the streets of New York City?

Her motto is "free the nipple" LOL

Rumer has a good figure and you can bet the old geezers in SLC were oogling and googling the pics.

I think the school has a right to enforce a dress code. They did it wrong here, though. They cropped some photos and let others go, thus giving unequal treatment. The thing they should have done is told them they couldn't even take the photo unless the person was within the school dress code.

I have nothing against the human body, I even like nudes in the right time/place. School is not a place to show a lot of skin, though. I think US kids should wear school uniforms K-12 like they do in Australia and NZ, then dress however they want to when not in school.

Yes, I also think Mormons have too much influence in the public sphere in the Morridor. They are obsessed with modesty.



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My biggest turn on was always a cute face. Leave the bare shoulders in but remove the faces.

What high school did you guys go to? These are senior pictures taken at a studio, not class photos at school.

@emmahailyes
No, they are not senior photos, they are class photos. At least one was a sophomore.

In an interview on TV, the first girl (with the tattoo, which says "I am what I am") said she ran getting the tattoo by the school before getting it, and they were fine with it, yet they edited it out for the picture.

She also said she had worn that same dress to the school numerous times, and there was never a problem with it violating dress codes.

Channel 13 just ran pictures (blurred) from the same yearbook cheerleaders with crotch shots. Yep, those are fine, but tattoos and sleeveless dresses aren't.

So...what is going to be done about it?? The class photos retaken and given a dress code?

Whole Thing SUCKS.

pretty soon, Temple 'dress standards' are going to take over the Moridor if others don't get back in control.

'of course' TSCC can stand aside & claim they hand 'Nothing to do with it'.


Sick People make Sick Rules


stupid cult.

Its the mormon taliban.... run run run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could understand if there was "nip slip" or a derogatory Tattoo, but this is clearly LDS dress code standards in a public school.

Shame on them for editing and "shaming" selected FEMALE students.

There was nothing wrong with these students attire.

If the students were clearly breaking dress code on picture day, then send them HOME.

Schools make MONEY from picture day and yearbooks.

That is just taking things too far and Im fine if I never step foot in Utah again.

Pardon me while I go topless for rest of the evening in protest.

RMM

To those who think this is going too far - what standards to you propose?

Pretty much everyone believes in some kind of restrictions, and there are tribes that wear nothing and think they are ridiculous.

Seems we all have arbitrary standards that someone considers too strict.

Pardon me while I go topless for rest of the evening in protest.


Hahaha.

I feel the same way. I want to go to Utah and dress "inappropriately."

Edit to add: meant to be under RMM's post.



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