Some Senators will now be allowed to dress like slobs

Good news! Upper house U.S. Senators will now be allowed to dress any way they want, even if it's the same way Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman dresses. 

Fetterman, as you may know, dresses like he's lounging around his home watching "House of Cards" in his shorts and hoodie. All he needs is a Bud Light in his paws and a slice of pizza to perfect the look.

Now the US Senate will no longer enforce a dress code for members of the upper house but this will not be so for " . . . others entering the chamber must comply with the dress code. Coats/ties for men. Business attire for women," Chad Pergram, the Senior Congressional Correspondent for Fox News tweeted.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck "Nostrils" Schumer (D-NY) covertly sent the directive to the Senate's Sergeant at Arms, Axios reported.

Of course, this change will allow Fetterman and other uncaring slobs to dress like kids who've been kicked out of school for the way they dressed.

Fetterman suffered a severe, life-threatening stroke which turned his speech into Biden-like blather, but his use of a computer program, to help him with intake and output of communication, allowed him to elevate his verbalizations to be on par with those of VP Kamala Harris. He spent six weeks at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he was treated for "clinical depression." He also suffered hearing loss and was fitter for hearing aids.

When the style-starved senator returned to do the work of the people, he refused to dress like a professional and came up with a "workaround" to the Senate dress code.

"He votes from the doorway of the Democratic cloakroom or the side entrance, making sure his ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ is recorded before ducking back out."

"The tips are happy fine business," Fetterman said, referring to the few quarters and dollar bills he receives handing out cloaks without knowing who they actually belong to.

"Senators are able to choose what they wear on the Senate floor. I will continue to wear a suit," Schumer told Axios, with the proverbial stick still in place where no man has tread before.

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United Airlines gets out tweeted over leggings ban

Not So Friendly Skies -- United Airlines came under attack Sunday after they banned two teenage girls from boarding a flight by a gate attendant because they were wearing leggings. 

For those who are unfamiliar with leggings, they are articles of clothing that cover the legs and make men lose control or write nasty letters to companies that accommodate girls wearing leggings.

The flight was leaving from Denver, heading to Minneapolis.

The girls were traveling under an employee travel pass that includes a specific dress code and leggings isn't 'in code' and therefore out of code compliance. Jonathan Guerin, a United Airlines spokes puppet, was assigned the unpleasant task of explaining this to the media.

The dress code prohibits pass travelers from wearing spandex or Lycra pants, which includes leggings and Mafia wife workout pants. The girls agreed to change their illegal traveler's pass clothing and take a later flight, Guerin said, but Twitter went berserk on the company.

Tight clothing activist Shannon Watts of Denver tweeted that she saw what happened with her own eyes (as opposed to the eyes of casual acquaintances) and questioned United's decision to police women's clothing, although there apparently were no police women on the plane.

Watts vehemently declared that the girl's father was allowed to board the plane while wearing Sansa-belt shorts, a shirt that didn't match it, along with calf-high Argyle socks,  brown wingtip shoes, a straw hat that looked as if it was once used for a nest, a gold chain and a leather man-purse.

Not only was Watts appalled by how the father was dressed, she went so far as to call the airline's policy sexist.

Because it's all about money, regular passengers don't have the same dress code and can wear leggings, hijabs or even a burqa if that's the way they roll.

United said this about their dress code later on Sunday: 

"When taking advantage of this benefit, all employees and pass riders are considered representatives of United. And like most companies, we have a dress code that we ask employees and pass riders to follow. The passengers this morning were United pass riders and not in compliance with out dress code for company benefit travel. We regularly remind our employees that when they place a family member or friend on a flight as a standby passenger, they need to follow our dress code." Then they added, "to our regular customers, your leggings are welcome."

 But this wasn't acceptable to many Twitter tweeters, (although President Trump remained silent on the subject in spite of an itchy twitchy finger). 

Some tweeters wanted Guerin to apologize to the girls and then be fired by United. And many wanted everyone on Twitter to boycott the company until they run them out of business. 



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Students claim dress code perpetuates rape culture but burqas don't

Female students at Boston Latin School, a middle and high school, were upset with the enforcement of the long-standing dress code requiring them to wear the hems of skirts and dresses no higher than 4 inches above the knees, forbids gang-related colors, shirt-shoulder straps narrower than 3 fingers, and leggings worn as pants.

In a Change.org petition the students claimed the dress code sends the message that "we still live in a patriarchal society where men can decide whether a female's clothing is appropriate or inappropriate." It also claimed the dress code creates "a sense of shame towards girls bodies" and reinforces the notion that "yes, it is our fault when girls get raped because they should have covered up and avoided the situation by dressing in a way that does not attract another person."

After the petition went out, school administrators went back on part of the policy and now decided that leggings worn as pants will be permitted unless they are "sheer or see-through." The remainder of the dress code will remain and take effect on November 1st.

In January of this year, two students posted a YouTube video calling on classmates to discuss racial incidents that occurred to them at Boston Latin School. The activism by the students ultimately led to the resignation of the headmaster and another top school official due to claims that the school had not appropriately discipline white students who used racial slurs.

Fortunately for the students, there are no females in attendance at Boston Latin School who are required to wear burqas, hijabs or niqabs by their fathers' insistence because if that were the case, it really would be the video that caused the violence.

But I doubt the students would actually protest that dress code.


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