My ankles are the biggest sluts.
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I’m sure there must be a Chuck Tingle book about this
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2 scandalous 4 u @manybellsdown
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Exactly, I wanted to go on to explain why I said innumerable life choices but then the troll admitted to trolling.
To even try to follow this terrible advise, one would have to examine every tiny choice about both appearance and any activity that dictates appearance, like playing sports or going to a formal event. Examine and reexamine these choices though a variety of imagined different eyes.
Then we would have to take all the real life responses and try to make sense of them and come up with a plan.
So, in reality, it’s impossible because of course you can’t actually control other people with your clothes. You would drive yourself crazy trying.
And of course that’s the complaint, most of us already drive ourselves crazy second guessing ourselves, and then get this advice like we’ve never even considered it.
There is a false belief that we could just be default and have no problem, held by people that believe that any attraction they feel has been carefully cultivated by the source of the attraction. This leads to the belief that sweaty sports wear, tall socks, or palazzo pants are intentionally provocative.
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Barb, or G Dub?
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There’s an infamous poll that was done of male students at a Christian college, where a good percentage of the respondents said that a cross-body purse was “provocative” because the strap goes between your breasts and thus draws attention to them. (I can’t find the link now, I thought I’d saved it)
Like, I really don’t have that much energy to spend caring about what every random person I pass is thinking. I couldn’t even imagine some of these things anyway.
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Where is that cartoon
“Well, if didn’t want me to tackle him, why was he dressed like that?”
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Yea, baby!
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As a Gen X’er, I try to hold my tongue when it comes to baby boomers.
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They also figure prominently in Orwell’s 1984
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I remember that one.
Those communities emphasize how impossible it is to define “correct” dress. The restrictions just get tighter and tighter, and the harassment just gets angrier and more self righteous.
Women are treated more disrespectfully when they are expected to dress “proper”. Improper dress is an inexhaustible excuse for disrespect, it can always be found when you’re looking for it. Respect has to be the primary value, you can’t cheat your way there.
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Ah, well. The butt wants what the butt wants.
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Rule 34 suggests that this is a game that can never be won.
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This is the hard part, for me - she actually is on the side of progressives, and has been trying to fight gerrymandering although that’s much of why she was elected.
Also, she sends responses to my emails & calls. They may be form letters, but they’re tailored to whatever the issue is, and sent within a week.
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Now I have an urge to throw up.
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To be fair, not everyone in the 60s who was a boomer was a progressive radical. There were plenty of conservatives, too. Goldwater got a fair amount of youth support and many of today’s GOP are boomers, too.
The Baby Boom was a large generation and the first generation of teenagers, so they got a lot of focus and attention. Plus they were a huge cohort (especially compared to us Gen Xers, who came after the normalization of the pill). I’d guess that the hippies and radicals got far more attention even though they were only a noisy minority of their generation. I’d bet you dollars to donuts that if you took a percentage of youth who participated in the anti-war movement/hippie culture/leftist radical culture, and took the percentage of late boomers/ Gen Xers who participated in the anti-nuclear movement/punk/hip hop cultures/underground culture (as active participants, not just buying the Sex Pistols or Run DMC), the percentage would be the same, even if the raw numbers were still with the boomers.
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I understand the reasoning behind Kaptur’s statement; she sounds like my conservative friends and my older female relatives, who truly believe that if you don’t “advertise” you won’t get sexually harassed or assaulted.
But these are the same women who will stay quiet if they had been raped or abused, because they’d rather have a rapist free to damage others than to admit that they were “damaged goods”, because they must have been asking for it, right?
Society is changing again, and it seems like most reasonable people know that unwanted sexual advances, let alone sexual assault, is not the fault of the victim. Even if the culture finally catches up to progressive thinkers who believe in equal rights across the board, older people (and younger ones who have been thoroughly conditioned) will not change their ingrained viewpoints. Look at Roy Moore, for example. A majority of white women would rather have an ultra-Xtian child molester with a record of being removed from the bench for not upholding the Constitution over his interpretation of the Bible than any Democrat. Those are women who probably think the victims were asking for it when they hear of a sexual harassment or assault.
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