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beccaelizabethI read in the Guardian several rounds of 'discussion' about a school head teacher saying parents must not wear pyjamas to school.
They're all about 'boundaries' and where a teacher should just mind their own business and so forth, and they all miss the blooming obvious question as far as I can figure: how do they know they're pyjamas?
What are pyjamas, when you get right down to it? Trousers and a top. Trousers and a top are perfectly reasonable to wear anywhere.
If someone is complaining about people wearing pyjamas, my first thought is to filter carefully for racism. I mean, complaining about the clothes Them Other People wear is a classic. And I've heard Chinese clothes such as seen in martial arts movies referred to as pyjamas. Plus pyjamas lately are more likely to be interesting patterns than stuff sold as trousers and tops separately, and wearing interesting patterns seems more likely from some groups than others. Also there's the money thing, cause you can get a nice set of pyjamas for less money than separate trousers and tops.
And I know that because basically all I wear at home is, technically, pyjamas. But the plain black stuff gets a different set of reactions than the ones with patterns on. And I can see that the fuzzy pyjamas are very unusual by current rules of attire, but they're the second warmest garments I own, after the actual thermals. I wouldn't wear them outside because they'd get stuff caught in the fuzz and also my mother wouldn't half have words about it and also people would stare. But I wear the black trousers around town often, because I can't find reasonable trousers of nice softness that aren't pyjamas.
So it don't seem to me that the argument is about what they're saying it's about. If people are turning up at school wearing any legal amount of coverage, fair enough. Calling it pyjamas is just weird.
Also, in other annoyance, the article that started 'how long can it take to get dressed? five minutes?'
has never tried it with a bad back, or other mobility issue.
It also suggested that people wearing pyjamas was diagnostic of depression, which ... :eyeroll:
They're all about 'boundaries' and where a teacher should just mind their own business and so forth, and they all miss the blooming obvious question as far as I can figure: how do they know they're pyjamas?
What are pyjamas, when you get right down to it? Trousers and a top. Trousers and a top are perfectly reasonable to wear anywhere.
If someone is complaining about people wearing pyjamas, my first thought is to filter carefully for racism. I mean, complaining about the clothes Them Other People wear is a classic. And I've heard Chinese clothes such as seen in martial arts movies referred to as pyjamas. Plus pyjamas lately are more likely to be interesting patterns than stuff sold as trousers and tops separately, and wearing interesting patterns seems more likely from some groups than others. Also there's the money thing, cause you can get a nice set of pyjamas for less money than separate trousers and tops.
And I know that because basically all I wear at home is, technically, pyjamas. But the plain black stuff gets a different set of reactions than the ones with patterns on. And I can see that the fuzzy pyjamas are very unusual by current rules of attire, but they're the second warmest garments I own, after the actual thermals. I wouldn't wear them outside because they'd get stuff caught in the fuzz and also my mother wouldn't half have words about it and also people would stare. But I wear the black trousers around town often, because I can't find reasonable trousers of nice softness that aren't pyjamas.
So it don't seem to me that the argument is about what they're saying it's about. If people are turning up at school wearing any legal amount of coverage, fair enough. Calling it pyjamas is just weird.
Also, in other annoyance, the article that started 'how long can it take to get dressed? five minutes?'
has never tried it with a bad back, or other mobility issue.
It also suggested that people wearing pyjamas was diagnostic of depression, which ... :eyeroll: