"Belly dancers = sluts" is a huge peeve of mine. It comes from the same ridiculous attitude as "asking for it": The only possible reason a woman (or girl) could ever have for showing her body is sex, and an intent to give a man an erection. And anything a woman (or girl) does or wears that could trigger an erection must be shamed.
This may well be appropriate for bellydancing, but it's not appropriate for school, or simply walking around the mall:
No one is saying that bellydancing outfits automatically make a girl a slut.
But context is important. The wrong clothes at the wrong time leave the wrong impression.
Wearing such an outfit on the street at dusk isn't "asking" for anything to happen, but one must admit that the chances of something happening are much larger than if they wear the appropriate clothing for the activity they are involved in.
In the same way that the "genderless child" couple is attempting to change societal norms, you can indeed wear, or not wear, whatever you want (within public indecency laws, I suppose) whenever you want wherever you want. It's going to take a lot of people, however, to get a school to say that the above outfit is appropriate dress for school activities.
You could take the time to write your local school board and lobby for such changes to the dress code, I suppose. I guess I don't see the point, but I was never one for playing dress up, so I don't suppose I will be able to understand what the point of showing off your midriff is. I always assumed it was to attract the attention of others, but perhaps there's a more important need that it fills, and we should be allowing our children to wear as little as they want to school.
(the smiley is a partial apology for stepping over the line firmly into trolling territory and goading you. Sorry, but not enough to re-write the post...)
