Worth the Credit?

For my Modern and Popular Culture Music class we were offered, what seemed to me, a very odd and unfair opportunity to receive extra credit. Every semester the professor for MUET 3020 directs and host an educational music performance. At this performance attendees-students and their guest(s)-are exposed to various Vaudevile traditions. As a student enrolled in the class I was offered many ways to be involved with the performance that would give me extra points. One of the most interesting ways was to participate as a hula dancer; this role would have provided me with the most extra credit, and I wanted to choose this role initially for obvious reasons. However, as he began to describe the role, he revealed that women hula dancers were required to wear bikini tops accompanied with small shorts to go under the grass skirt. The professor stressed the importance of a bikini top, and said if a dancer showed up in anything different that they would be cut from the show. On the other hand, the men hula dancers were allowed to show up wearing a white t-shirt and basketball shorts to go under their grass skirts. While on the day of the show the men did not wear a shirt, they were still provided the option to do so. I do not agree with the way this situation was handled, and I think it is absurd that the professor did not take the women's feelings towards the not attire into consideration.