Too Many "Speedo-ish" Dresses Worn to Dances

I wrote this opinion piece when I was 16 years-old for my High School newspaper. It came from a talk we had one day in the journalism room with some of the Senior boys, who hated asking girls out to dances because they never knew what type of dress they'd have to dance with all night. It sort of went "viral" at my high school and was the first time I'd ever gotten attention for writing. I consider it a pretty pivotal piece in my writing "career", because it made me realize that if you said th...