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Does your choice of attire ask for negative attention from the opposite sex?Rebecca Boucher, Charger Staff As ridiculous as it is, society continues to believe that the "clothes
you wear" determine who you are. Unless you are willing to change the entire
world and eventually live alone in the tundra, cursing all humankind, a certain
amount of acceptance is required to operate in year 2002. One of the more obvious reasons to "dress appropriately" is to achieve
and possess a "good" job for adulthood. Most businesses wouldn’t
dream of hiring a person who shows up wearing holes in her jeans for an interview. Another reason, which I think is much more pressing, is the myth of how a woman’s
clothing portrays how she really is. Since I am, indeed, a woman, I have definitely
noticed the relationship between what women wear and how they are treated. Whether girls know it or not, how they are treated is often entirely related
to their way of dressing. If you wear short skirts and low-cut shirts, you’re
guaranteed to get more attention. Which gender this speaks worse of, the wearers
or the lookers, is hard to tell. Nothing is wrong with a woman "expressing her own sexuality" by wearing
what she wants, but she can’t be surprised when males come drooling over
to offer her a rose, which I’m sure they picked especially for her and
her alone. She is attracting the wrong, disgusting, repulsive kind of attention
from horny boys/ men. No one can honestly say they want to be loved entirely because of physical
appearance. Love is not obtainable in that type of relationship anyway. I imagine the majority of girls, however, are quite conscious of the immediate
effects of being "oh so sexy." But I wonder if they know why they
are all clamoring to show off their bodies, day in and day out, not realizing
that being a woman also entitles them to respect from others and from themselves.
Maybe it has something to do with the music videos in which the women sit around
the pool and in hot tubs. The absurdly sultry looks on their faces are funny
at first, but when you watch it more than once, they begin to look like that’s
how they normally are. Maybe it’s related to the TV shows where a date
almost always ends in earth-shattering sex with no consequences afterwards.
Maybe all the degrading song lyrics for all the ladies who “be givin it
up” can help us understand why women are and like being objects. Most women allow themselves to be objects and "crave" the attention.
Each generation of women go through a phase where showing off their bodies is
fun, but over the years, these phases seem to be lasting longer and starting
younger. It’s crazy to think I actually have to say that women are more than objects, and that some people, including women, will think it’s funny and dismiss it as annoying. How can women not see the negative effects? If any of you are looking for love, you’ll have to work through a nearly impossible maze that you set up for yourself.
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