“Teens React After Yearbook Photos Are ‘Modesty Edited’” — Inside Edition, 2021, 2:10 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG0_OmJcYiw

Here we see an example of the sexist double standard applied to clothing in the context of yearbook photos. The concept of the double standard describes how rules are differentially enforced depending on one’s gender or other group affiliations. Because our culture sexualizes the female body, the school district “edited” many girls’ yearbook photos to minimize the amount of visible skin. Yet in the same yearbook, boys are pictured in speedos.

How else does this double standard manifest in our society? While women are the clear victims here, what might this practice assume about men?

From the video’s description: Several students and their parents at one Florida high school are outraged after their yearbook photos were altered to cover up more of their chests. Riley O’Keefe’s original photo had a black bar digitally added to the top of her shirt. In total, 80 photos were deemed “inappropriate” by the school and digitally altered. All of them were girls. They say their school outside Jacksonville, Florida applied a double standard.