How I feel about sweating the small stuff

I first want to say that the fact that Mark Bittman wrote this while he was in Seattle makes me super happy because I'm going there in 49 days.  I love that he's on book tour and he writes about how it is to be on book tour.  I often go to see author Ellen Hopkins when she's in town and this made me realize how she must feel while on tour.  While Mrs. Hopkins was in town last year, I went to her book signing and she answered the questions almost exactly to how Bittman answers them in this article.  The harder questions she answered shorter, while the simpler ones she had more fun with.  I believe this is because, as authors with a wide fan-base, they don't want to offend anyone with their opinions.
Mark Bittman talks about how we should worry about changing the smaller things, rather than the larger ones like war, poverty, and other things of that nature.  While reading this, I thought about how girls in schools are being given harsher and harsher dress codes because they're being "distracting" to the boys in the classrooms.  With the fashion industry basically forcing girls to wear tighter shirts, shorter skirts, and tops that show their shoulders, girls don't have several options of clothes that are "dress code friendly."  In order to change girls getting called down to the dean's office to change every day because of the clothes that they're being forced to buy (let's be honest, a LOT of girls would rather have shorts that cover their butts, rather than the ones companies are selling now), the clothing companies would need to change their clothes.  Instead of making thousand of companies change, why don't schools who feel like this is an issue enact a program that teaches boys and girls about things like sexual harassment and rape.  I've heard people say boys should be taught those things, but girls need to be taught as well.  It's a small thing, compared to boycotting companies that sell "inappropriate" clothing, that can change a lot.
I really enjoyed this article and completely agree that we shouldn't focus on changing the big things, but rather the small ones.  With little changes, our lives can change drastically.