by A row has broken out in the southern Indian state of Kerala after a government school allowed teenage female students to wear trousers.
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a throng of protesters - kept in check by dozens of policemen - who were unhappy that girls could now wear trousers and shirts, just like the boys.
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the new uniform has not gone down well with conservative Muslim groups who say their children are being "forced" to wear the new outfits.
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"The decision was taken without calling a general body meeting of the PTA and now our girls are being forced to wear trousers and shirts like boys. It's also a huge financial burden on poorer families," said Mujahid Balussery, a member of the Muslim Coordination Committee against unisex uniforms.
But a bigger concern for Mr Balussery is his belief that a uniform change is part of the state's Communist government "agenda to impose their atheistic ideology on children" which he says will lead them astray.
"We cannot compromise on our faith," he says. "Girls and boys must keep their distinctive identities. Allowing girls to dress up like boys is like initiating them into free sex. It will lead to sexual liberation by ending gender differentiation."
Girls wearing trousers is initiating them into free sex? Have these men ever had sex? It's a damn sight easier to engage in free sex in skirts than in trousers!
And that atheistic agenda the fruitloops are always going on about - the nefarious agenda apparently also includes sartorial preferences.
But yeah, same insane controlling shit from fundamentalist fuckwagglery, different country. In this case, the tenor suggests that what these fundies actually fear is a world in which girls choose their own sexual partners, presumably because they know that unless they coerce girls into being submissive sexual partners via the weight of tradition, they won't get laid.
