I am a former student of St Xavier’s College; I know what short skirts can do. It’s why I was very pleased to see that my alma mater has decided to implement what it once did in the 1990s and put a stop to inappropriate and indecent clothing on campus. It hasn’t specified what inappropriate or indecent means, but I’m pretty sure it’s a reference to skin, because that’s where everyone starts to have a problem. After all, history is rife with examples of how society starts to crumble whenever the skin of anyone female is revealed.

Several principals spoke to this newspaper a couple of weeks ago, explaining why a dress code needed to exist. One mentioned the problem of hairstyles too, which made perfect sense to me because I have lost count of how distracting a woman’s hair can be. I could probably have scored higher marks in college if my female classmates were to tuck their hair beneath a covering of some kind. I have also lost count of the number of times the glimpse of a calf or ankle in college distracted me from my studies and made it impossible for me to get through the day. Unfortunately, at the time, there was no one to police what my female classmates wore, and all male students had to pay the price.