She's asking for it

I know that Ms Hammond is free to dress how she will, and considering what girls today wear, she was dressing conservatively, but when I see her throwing herself on a man she KNOWS is married, I say she is a tramp. Then when she stops in the stairwell to fix her garters, I thought she is asking for it...then you see the student watching her and you know she is about to get attacked. I know no woman is asking to be raped, but the thought still flashed through my mind "she's asking for it" (plus she was asking for it, just not from the student...a little consensual nookie with Mr. Dadier would have been great). Makes you think, should Ms Hammond have been dressing more conservatively (say in nun's robes?) she knew how she looked, and was even warned by another teacher, yet she still wore provocative clothing. This issue is still around today, with the strictures of Muslim women's clothing. The question remain, how far do women have to go to curtail the male attention? I know that I make harsh remarks about the girls walking around in skirts that don't even completely cover their asses, calling them sluts...that's probably  just be me being jealous since I could never pull off that look. But even Dadier's wife makes a comment about Ms Hammond provoking the boy who attacked her. Do you  think that the conservative clothes idea came about from jealous women who felt they were not attractive enough to keep their husbands at home? Victorian era dresses were so low cut sometimes that you could see the top of the aureoles, yet it was socially acceptable at the time, even when showing an ankle was not.  It is strange how sensibilities change throughout the ages.

I hated the fact that there was not one strong role model for women in Blackboard Jungle, the women were sluts, timid wives, nosy old neighbors or meek and dowdy teachers. I felt that this movie was meant for the guys to watch, because the women were supposed to be at home taking care of the wash. Was the social scare mainly centered around the male youth? 

I noticed several posters throughout the movie depicting the Marines. I thought it was interesting that when Dadier is talking to West about reform school and the military they are standing in front of one of the Marine posters.

I enjoyed this movie the first time I saw it and I am glad I got the chance to watch it a second time because I wasn't solely focused on the plot, I was able to take in smaller details which enriched the film for me (mostly made me laugh...) like when the guys are at the bar, Edwards keeps orders two more rounds of drinks after Dadier said he needed to get home, or the fact that Anne Dadier is so vapid at points, she has no initiative to ask her husband about the so called woman, instead she does the laundry and cooks dinner.