A North Dakota high school has banned female students from wearing leggings, jeggings, or tight jeans, citing concerns that such attire can be distracting to their male classmates, and also makes girls look too much like a pre-bathtub-scene Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.

No, seriously: Valley News Live reports an assistant principal at Devils Lake High school introduced the new policy by playing two clips from Roberts' star-making performance as a prostitute to show students how the banned outfits supposedly made them appear.

The news station also reported that an English teacher explicitly told students their tight pants made them look like "prostitutes walking the streets." The assistant principal—the same one who showed Pretty Woman—said the teacher probably shouldn't have put it that way.

The dress code isn't about objectifying girls, the slut-shaming administrator said, it's about making sure boys and male teachers aren't distracted.

It's a pretty common argument in favor of dress codes for girls, but also a bullshit one. A Devils Lake High mom told Valley News Live that parents aren't buying it.

"[Parents] were talking about how they think the boys should be able to control themselves and the girls should be able to wear the leggings and the jeggings and you know, the squirts and stuff," Candace Olsen said.

The squirts might be taking it a little too far, but good point about not forcing girls to take responsibility for boys' behavior and sexuality.

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