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A teenagers call for her peers to lose their tight or revealing outfits and show restraint in their dress has prompted city officials to declare Dec. 3-7 Modesty Week in South Pasadena.
Saige Hatch, 15, launched the South Pasadena High School Modesty Club in September to combat the proliferation of short shorts, miniskirts and bare midriffs. Hatch blames popular culture and peer pressure for sexualizing women and girls.
Women have fought for their rights, liberty, and honor more in the past 200 years than in all recorded history, reads a statement on the clubs website, www.modestyclub.com. Our bright, heroic women are being made the fool. A fool to think that to be loved they must be naked. To be noticed they must be sexualized. To be admired they must be objectified.
Hatch is following in the footsteps of older brother McKay Hatch, who made national headlines and appeared on The Tonight Show after founding a No Cussing Club at the school in 2008.
South Pasadena Mayor Michael Cacciotti, who will proclaim Modesty Week during Wednesdays City Council meeting, declared a No Cussing Week in March 2008 to honor McKays efforts.
Brent Hatch, a real estate agent and cousin of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) who is father to Saige, McKay and five other children, said he initially was hesitant about his children taking their campaigns public for fear of the backlash they would face.
Its nerve-racking. As a parent you want your kids to fit in and get along with other kids, said Hatch, 50. I told my son what might happen, and everything I said happened and worse.
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