(05-15-2015, 09:18 AM)earth_spirit Wrote: As for young girls dressing provocatively, I suppose that's just early training for their ideal goal of objectifying themselves to attract sexual validation and getting a guy to look after them for a lifetime instead of studying hard and eventually working for themselves. I believe both boys and girls are roughly equal in terms of intelligence (girls are even said to mature faster), but girls start to lose out starting from adolescence as a result of pursing superficiality above all else.
Where I'm at pretty much all females go to college & then get jobs. I know a lot of females...& I don't know any that don't have a job...& most of them are mothers, too. Oh wait - I do know a few that don't have jobs - but that's bc they've retired. Did any of those girls dress provocatively when they were growing up? Take a wild guess. Was it bc they were trying to get out of going to college & getting a job? I find that laughable. The primary reason was probably just bc it gets really hot in FL haha.
(05-16-2015, 01:11 PM)Diana Wrote: I think everyone should wear what they want and express themselves. But that's the problem, people are rarely expressing THEMSELVES because they don't even know who they are. They follow societal prompts.
We live in a Hollywoodized society. Just look anywhere in popular media. Fashion has always been followed but it's insane today.
If I could tell young women one thing it would be this: You are already beautiful the way you are. Embrace your uniqueness. You don't need to show cleavage or draw attention to your intimate body parts. Down that path lies all sorts of confusion, unless it is really the way you want to express yourself.
A LOT of females, whether they know it or not, believe their sexuality is what makes them worthy of love. The competition to be the sexiest has reached a ridiculous pitch in this age of cosmetic enhancements and plastic surgery and revealing clothing that accentuates sexuality.
I was at a concert recently in a venue where everyone had to stand on a sloping floor and there was nowhere to sit. So many girls had 4" heels on. There is no way they were comfortable and by the end of the night their poor feet must have been a mess. It reminded me of the Victorian age when women wore corsets so tight they could barely eat.
Of course men are going to respond to women wearing sexually explicit clothing. Isn't this a no-brainer? So any men here who feel guilty about that, don't. It's instinct. You have a frontal lobe and can decide what you want to do about that attraction. And you have a heart and can sort out through the morass of sleeping humans the type of woman you really want, not just the type that triggers your animal brain.
idk...does Hollywood really have that much power? If so, why the obesity epidemic? I think that people in Hollywood are just regular people wearing exactly what they want to wear. Many choose to emulate them, yeah, but I feel that's bc they want to - not bc they've been brainwashed or w/e. A LOT don't emulate them, look around.
I think females/people are more strong-willed than people think. I think the ones showing more skin are doing it bc they want to...not bc famous people are doing it or bc society tells them to.
I think what it all boils down to is that we should have the *freedom* to be naked in public if we want to - at w/e age...in w/e location. Maybe a lot of the girls that dress provocatively feel this way too?
(05-16-2015, 10:46 AM)Minyatur Wrote: Why? You've probably been guys too.
Being a girl should be nice, except the downsides that all girls complain about.
I thought the pun joke would make the "why" obvious. When we hear about a child/person/animal that's been raped it's almost always a guy that did it. Those girls in that picture I posted...you think they want to be dressed like that? Guys are the reason they're dressed like that. It just seems to me like guys generally have a horrendously high sex drive...& I just feel like I wouldn't want that & like it'd be a hard thing to have.