[Tasha27429]

I’ve heard it said many, many times that if women dress provocatively, they deserve whatever treatment they get from men; it’s an argument that’s used both reasonably, with respect to ogling looks from strangers, and rather offensively, in trying to blame women for being raped… My two cents is that there is a grand assumption in saying that women are ‘trying to sell their wares to men’: that women dress the way they do for men, and that their actions and behaviors are tailored to mens’ reactions. I think this is only sometimes true in the case of clothing. From personal experience, women dress more for other women than they do for men, seeing as other women are often sharply tuned to clothing styles around them. And what a woman wears can depend on the style that was prominent in the household she grew up in, in the country she’s lived in, the size and shape of her body. What a woman believes is ‘comfortable and beautiful’ or ‘casual’ can vary wildly from female carpenters to ballet dancers, and what is considered showy in one person’s mind can appear conservative in another’s. I think it’s time to respect that womens’ dressing styles come from a variety of sources, most of them internal, and many others having nothing to do with men at all. If a man were to ask, ‘what does a woman think when she sees a man she’s attracted to?’, I don’t think we would be so quick to wonder if the man we’re talking about is dressing provocatively.

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Name : Tasha27429, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : New York, State : NY, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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