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Clare Ettinger, 17, donned this dress that met the dress code for her homeschool prom in Richmond, Va. But she ended up getting booted from the dance anyway.

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Clare Ettinger, 17, donned a dress that met the dress code for her homeschool prom in Richmond, Va. But she ended up getting booted from the dance anyway because some dads chaperoning the event feared the sequined silver number would cause boys there to have "impure thoughts."

Now, the whole incident has become a social media cause celebre, according to our sister website, Cleveland.com.

Already, the homeschool prom took down its Facebook page after a flurry of negative posts. And Ettinger isn't taking her prom ouster lying down.

She has taken to her sister's blog, Wine & Marble, to offer her defense. Chief among her complaints is that it was the dads who were having impure thoughts. She claims they were "ogling" her before she was asked to leave, according to Cleveland.com.

A New York Post story cited "provocative dancing" as the reason for Ettinger's ouster.

In response, Ettinger blogged that she wasn't dancing, only swaying to the music with her friends, when she was asked to leave. She and her group of friends did leave, but demanded a refund. Only Ettinger received a refund, Cleveland.com reported.

From Ettinger's blog post: "The whole situation made me feel violated, walked over and ostracized. My group of five people had to leave the prom because I stuck out, I have long legs and I was wearing a sparkly dress, I didn't look like most of the 13-15 year old girls there, I looked like a woman..."

Gawker reports the Facebook page for the prom was inundated with negative comments, which were deleted before the page eventually was taken down.