Erykah Badu wants high school girls to wear longer skirts so men won’t be distracted

Ms. Badu - what did you do? Erykah Badu had Twitter in a frenzy Monday afternoon when she started tweeting about the need for high school-aged girls to lengthen their skirts as not to "distract" male teachers...

TheGrio Staff

Apr 12, 2016

Ms. Badu – what did you do?

Erykah Badu had Twitter in a frenzy Monday afternoon when she started tweeting about the need for high school-aged girls to lengthen their skirts as not to “distract” male teachers.

The singer was responding to and agreeing with an article published in The Guardian about a New Zealand principal who had advised girls to make changes to their skirt length to “stop boys from getting ideas.”

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So Badu tweeted her agreement with the principal’s sentiments – and then things got real:

I agree.We are sexual beings .
We should consider everyone.
Young girls are attractive. Some males are distracted. https://t.co/q6N7bpxO0Z

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 11, 2016

There was an article ruling that high school girls lower their skirts so male teachers are not distracted. I agreed because…

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

…I am aware that we live in a sex l-driven society. It is everyone's, male and female's, responsibility to protect young ladies…

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

…one way to protect youth is to remind them we are all sexual in nature and as they grow and develop it is natural to attract men…

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

…it is not them who is doing anything wrong by being beautiful and attractive but with such imbalance in our society it is smart to be…

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

… aware and awake. Men and women both go thru cycles of arousal. Men automatically are attracted to women of child bearing age….

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

…I want my daughters to understand this. I want them to be themselves and wear what they like, yet be aware. Not ignore our differences…

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

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Males should be taught to be responsible for their actions from childhood. It's not ok to "prey" on young women…

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

…But do I think it is unnatural for a heterosexual male 2b attracted to a young woman in a revealing skirt? No. I think it is his nature..

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

..Consequently, we must all be aware and responsible.
We must protect our young women. We must teach our young men…

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

…if I had a school I would make sure that the uniform skirt length was a nice knee length… It is fair to everyone…

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

…young women you are beautiful. Young men you are beautiful. Protect one another.

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) April 12, 2016

To her credit, Badu has been actively responding to much of the criticism she’s received from Twitter users:

this implies the visual consumption of women is something that can be managed or distracted from by a hemline https://t.co/5yhVNLkfbk

— ceciATL (@ceciATL) April 12, 2016

sure if you could somehow desexualize young girls/women by lengthening their skirt then fine but thats not how that works, like at all

— ceciATL (@ceciATL) April 12, 2016

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Check out Badu’s timeline, she’s still replying to tweets as of Tuesday midday.