New Morehouse College Policy Bans Sagging

[NinjaPoodle]

So, as I was reading this month's EBONY mag, I read this article:

http://www.ebonyjet.com/politics/edu....aspx?id=17442

A Modern Morehouse Man
Are HBCU traditions at odds with freedom of expression?
August 17, 2010
DO CLOTHES REALLY MAKE THE MAN?
By Kevin Chappell

They do if the man is a Morehouse Man. That’s the overriding opinion of school administrators, faculty, alumni and students who put the brakes on “feminine gender expression” last school year after a group of students showed up to class reportedly wearing tight jeans, blouses, pumps and purses. The cross-dressing students not only prompted a new dress code of sorts at the historically Black all-male school in Atlanta, but they also ignited a debate over everything from homophobia to masculine decorum to freedom of expression.

AT ISSUE: Exactly what does it mean to be a Morehouse Man in 2010?

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[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

So, as I was reading this month's EBONY mag, I read this article:


Click the link to read the rest

Interesting read...

As I understood what I read, it wasn't so much the "cross-dressing" as it was all "inappropriate dress" and Morehouse, Bynum, addressed it all at once.

Two things though:

Especially for Morehouse - not opening any worms here, but I did have quite a few friends I graduated with that realized they were gay. This was 20 years ago, so for Black men to say they were gay back in that day was verboten.

Then a close friend of mine who now works at Morehouse said that there was heinous unethical impropriety between Faculty and students, targeting gay ones. How does that help these young mens' self-esteem which is already at odds with the community?

What does this have to do with dress?

With a Lesbian friend of mine stated that sometimes when young males cross dress and they are not getting massively paid to do it like "impersonators", that they are doing it as their only form of protest--essentially to act out--like a cry for help sort of thing. Something I never considered. The Trevor Project for LGBTQI attempts to address this issue from a mental health perspective. Sadly, there is a derth of information for cultural competency in mental health...

So here is a door that can be opened in what is the "healthiest" sexuality preference that a Black male student can have at Morehouse College?

[33girl]

Thank you for explaining that. I was confused as a lot of crossdressers are straight as they come as far as they only have sex/want to have sex with women. In other words, putting on a dress doesn't make you gay and is often far from it.

[BluPhire]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Interesting read...

As I understood what I read, it wasn't so much the "cross-dressing" as it was all "inappropriate dress" and Morehouse, Bynum, addressed it all at once.

Two things though:

Especially for Morehouse - not opening any worms here, but I did have quite a few friends I graduated with that realized they were gay. This was 20 years ago, so for Black men to say they were gay back in that day was verboten.

Then a close friend of mine who now works at Morehouse said that there was heinous unethical impropriety between Faculty and students, targeting gay ones. How does that help these young mens' self-esteem which is already at odds with the community?

What does this have to do with dress?

With a Lesbian friend of mine stated that sometimes when young males cross dress and they are not getting massively paid to do it like "impersonators", that they are doing it as their only form of protest--essentially to act out--like a cry for help sort of thing. Something I never considered. The Trevor Project for LGBTQI attempts to address this issue from a mental health perspective. Sadly, there is a derth of information for cultural competency in mental health...

So here is a door that can be opened in what is the "healthiest" sexuality preference that a Black male student can have at Morehouse College?

As somebody that went to an old tradition HBCU and high school went to an all-male school. This is a fight that will not be won in days, months or years.

All this controversy has done has opened the eyes of the rampant homophobia within the black community. When you solve that issue, then the Morehouse issue will solve itself.

I guarantee this has been used against Morehouse in terms of recruiting new students.