Posts by Tess Rooney
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It's not a slippery slope, it's about context and social definitions of signals that certain clothes or ways of dressing send. Togs...undies :)
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@Craig - I once went to a party where one gay man was wearing skin tight silver hotpants and nothing else, okay I lie, maybe a bow-tie too. Are these the kind of shorts you are wearin? Because if so, then yes, you look like sexually available.
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"It is if we start by not telling them that if they wear short skirts they’re really telling all the boys they want them, which inevitably leads to sex and regret. Or perhaps by not telling them that it’s their job to not be “provocative”. You know. Small steps."
Yet again, I think it's context. No one assumes netballers are gagging for it because they wear short skirts - it's practical. Yet what about woman's beach vollyball which clearly has a male following because of what little they wear. I think we need to be realistic about social meanings that clothes portray.
Would anything a girl wears ever be unacceptable to you? Say she turned up to school on mufti day wearing a corsette and stockings, would this still be acceptable to you? Because to me it seems like a sliding scale of acceptabtility.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
That's fair. But do you think it's possible?
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Okay, do people here think that short skirts on teenage girls are NOT regarded by society as sexually attractive/suggestive? Or are we saying that yes, it is seen as sexually suggestive and it shouldn't be, or are we saying that short skirts on school girls and sexual signals are utterly unrelated?
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Emma that was a general question and was not meant to be specific to anyone.
Yes, okay there are various reasons why people wear short skirts.
Netballers wear them for practical reasons for example. Perhaps short skirts are the fashion and girls want to fit in. But in certain contexts short skirts are a social signal of sexuality.
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" nobody’s pathologised dousing oneself in Lynx"
Well they don't think much of Lynx advertising campaigns:
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Why is it so shocking to observe that human animals send sexual signals to one another?
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Sacha,
Yes, I completely apply it to boys as well.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Danielle,
I don't think she looked "slutty". And I disagree with the teacher using that bully word.