Where can I download this ADD-A-BURKA app for myself?

Did they edit the guys to make sure they had button up collars and ties?

To much chest hair showing is dangerous... Another day and more sexism out there in the world.

I guess you'd have to get smacked by a "sexism" sign for you to feel like something was sexism?

Good lord, and to the inevitable jury who gets this post I'm not advocating that leftyohiolib actually get hit with a sign I am just saying that how can the poster miss the blatant sexism pointed out by the OP. Seriously?

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Not defending them (and certainly not defending airbrushing pictures), but rules against visible tatoos, cleavage, bare shoulders are pretty common for high school yearbook pictures.

restrictions. When my daughter was in HS she worked for one of 2 photographers authorized for yearbook photos, I'll have to ask her about it. I think I'd rather a re-take than to have someone shop my pic though, or knowing me in HS I would have said not to include me in the yearbook.

exist to keep boys from being distracted during class. But the yearbook photo isn't distracting boys during class.

I really think this is just about control. And again I have to mention that they appear to have only targeted girls.

My son's friend hates it there. I feel bad for him. Weird, weird place.

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Commenters are responding to this story by suggesting that is reflective of something uniquely puritan about Utah. And certainly airbrushing/photoshopping yearbook pictures takes things to a new level. But the fact is it is possible to find similar restrictions on yearbook photos in every state, including yours. Here's an example from Rochester, New York, selected at random. http://www.westirondequoit.org/ihs/Yearbook/Main%20Page.htm

SENIOR PORTRAIT SPECIFICATIONS
Photos may be color, black and white or sepia
The color of the background may NOT be white
Photos may be shot inside or outdoors
Photos must be vertical-horizontal shots not accepted
Head size-top of head to chin is 1-1.25”
Print size is 2” width x 2.5” height
Head and shoulders only, no hands
No props, no graphic T-shirts, no hoodies, no writing on clothing
No spaghetti strap tanks, no revealing clothing
Shoulders should be covered, no cleavage
Files should be a minimum of 300dpi

By the way, I'm not defending these restrictions or what the Utah school did -- just pointing out that there is nothing unique about the type of rules that the Utah school was ham handedly trying to enforce.

and you have an opportunity to submit another.

The superintendent here is using weasel words to defend this modesty patrolling. Students were informed that their photos may be edited, he says. To a normal person, that would include cropping or adjusting contrast levels, not adding modesty panels and airbrushing tattoos.

People like to stir up an issue when there is nothing there.

The doctored photos were. And as is noted in the OP, there was also glaring inconsistency about it. Two students wearing similar tops, one was photoshopped, one was not. So some young women had their bare shoulders covered, others did not.

And as I wrote above, the typical treatment of unacceptable photos is to reject them and let the students submit new ones.

"Where are the boys?"


Well, could it be possible that some boys got edited too, but they just don't give a shit?


So, OK. Now all these poor girls have had their lives ruined...RUINED!!!

There are a bunch of people dead and injured in California in yet another school shooting, and all these little girls can whine about is how awful it is that their yearbook photos were altered.

In the article it says that there was a dress code and the students knew that their photos would be subject to editing if necessary.


So it's the yearbook where the photos of other kids are also printed. Maybe they don't want to appear in a book where their classmates are flouting one simple rule...dress appropriately.

One positive thing, though...maybe some of those kids who had their clothing edited have their very own social media pages where they can post whatever the hell kind of pictures they want to.

And they're graduating, which means they're old enough to leave the horrible state of Utah for greener, less restrictive pastures.


Anyway, those poor girls. I wonder how they'll ever recover from this trauma?

I dodged high school picture days, and then I dodged high school itself.

In any case I think a lot of this yearbook Photoshop work is sub-contracted, some of it to foreign nations even.

The randomness of the editing would be explained by that, each editor having either their own standard of "modest" dress, or awareness of the "standards" the photos were to be edited to.