Do you think it’s okay to be concerned about minors (especially tweens and lower) wearing revealing clothing?
Clothing does not cause rape or molestation.
You know those “What I was wearing” projects?
Posture is often deliberately chosen, yes. However, I would hazard that what they mean is that if you want to show that you are sexually available, you can pose to do so. However, if you do so, you are also prone to suffering the consequences of being objectified.
Maybe not a definition, but descriptions and trends do exist. While no pose will be sexually stimulating for every audience, there’s a lot of overlap. Just to describe a few:
- chest pushed out
- butt pushed out
- hip position exaggerated either to the side or back
- for women, pushing breasts together with arms or hands
- laying prone, particularly with legs in the air, spread open, or both
- emphasizing lips (licking, duck face, etc)
Basically, it generally involves posing in such a way as to draw attention to the sexualized parts of the human body (which vary by culture and preference), or just imitating actual sex positions.
Welcome to decadence.
Women who dress in revealing clothing absolutely want attention.
The thing is it’s possible women want attention and just don’t want it from you.
It’s a bit cruel that women dress in a way that attracts people she’s not attracted to but such is life.
Women who dress overtly provocative, are asking for unwanted attention and shouldn’t chastise people who look.
I’m a woman and I wear things I think will make me look pretty.
How significant is the pressure on young girls and women to wear revealing clothes beyond their actual comfort level?
The worst pressure comes from the clothing stores. Nearly every option in nearly every clothing store is revealing. If you want to dress ‘modest’ as a young woman, you will have to look and find hard.
Even children get this insane pressure. It’s frankly extremely significant and I’ll bet it’s the most significant factor.
If you see someone showing a lot of skin, and you check them out, then realize they are young and your thought process is “holy shit, they are only 16” or whatever age and then you look away.
However if you check the person out, realize they are 16 and think “hell yeah, fresh meat / unused / barely legal/ insert other gross porn fetishes here” .
Sounds dangerously close to calling them “jailbait”.
If sexual harassment is such a problem for women why do they dress in more revealing clothing than men?
This is harassment. That is assault.
Harassment is stuff like cat calling, assault is much more severe. Assault is usually perpetrated by family members and people close to them and is often opportunistic.
Cat calling and sexual harassment is often by randoms and acquaintances.
I’m sure you’re tired of hearing “Don’t flaunt your jewelries in the street, especially area of the city. You’ll might as well asking to get mugged”.
“We expect freedom in wearing clothes and not get harassed”. By all means, but there are bad people out there and saying “don’t catcall” or“don’t rape” can’t protect you from these situations.
Most of the response are either: – “so you’re blaming the victim?”. No, I’m saying be reasonable and (for lack of better word) not stupid.
I never said it’s ok to harass others for existing in a space.
“I’m fully clothed and still experienced harassment”. I’m sorry that happened to you.
My point still stands: revealing clothes have effect on the chance of getting harassed: in your case, the effect is 0. In some other case, it may be > 0.