Kind of funny that during the supposedly wicked days of blatant male dominance and patriarchy, women dressed in a much more modest and dignified manner.
Somehow, even though excessively skimpy outfits coincide with women’s liberation, it’s patriarchy’s fault that women choose to dress like sluts.
I guess the netizens in the manosphere don’t call it the rationalization “hamster” for nothing.
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Yeah. Owners who want to keep their property to themselves like to cover it up.
Free humans, on the other hand, are not property and can dress any way they damn well please, whether you like it or not.
During the days of blatant male dominance and patriarchy, women dressed less modestly as they were paraded around by their owners (i.e. fathers) so that prospective buyers (suitors) could see the merchandize. Once the purchase was done, the properties (women) dressed very modest and dignified, often hiding their hair in public (like women in the Middle East do now, with hijabs and chadors).
Women are now more free to dress how they want, but we're not completely free from patriarchy yet. Besides, men dress like sluts too; I see many more topless men in the summer, than women.
No, it's patriarchy's fault for slut shaming women who choose to dress how they please.
And don't tell me that you're not looking when you see a woman dressed like a "slut."
If you think patriarchal thinking has gone away just because feminism exists you haven't talked to many women OR men. Products are still being advertised in the most sexist ways possible. Careers in science and technology are still boys' clubs. And people still think of women dressed sexy as sluts but men dressed sexy as confident and suave. The patriarchal thinking hasn't stopped, it's simply become something that isn't admitted to anymore in polite conversation.
We can dress as we damn please? come on don't give me that bullshit.
It's not how they dress, but the ability to choose what they dress in.
I'm sorry, but the way modern society tends to push women to dress with less that is just another form of patriarchy, not a liberation like you seem to think.
But dressing in less shouldn't mean they are sluts (Even though that's not a bad thing. Sleep with who you want because you want to.) but confident in their appearance. If I had something nice to show, I'd show it off.
The problem is, if women are not modesto, it affects nobody. However, if men rape.........see the problem?
"it’s patriarchy’s fault that women choose to dress like sluts"
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Of course, the olden times always looks better for those who don't have to suffer in them, i.e. those at the better end of the deal.
... and on the subject of men dressing sexy...
http://youtu.be/pi2t58CRmbU
..yea.
You really don't understand how feminism works, do you?
Arctic: In fairness, pretty much anyone would be arrested for wearing Borat's swimsuit in public.
"Somehow, even though excessively skimpy outfits coincide with women’s liberation, it’s patriarchy’s fault that women choose to dress like sluts."
It's like he's not even trying. The same patriarchal social arrangement resulted in the beauty standard that encourages women to dress in the fashion he dislikes. That it happened after society became a bit more egalitarian doesn't mean we aren't still mostly patriarchal in structure; after all, take a pot of boiling water off the stove and it doesn't cool off completely in five minutes.
In the same way, those patriarchal influences will remain for at least a few generations after full social gender equality (which we haven't reached yet) is achieved. To use the above example, we haven't even removed the pot from the stove. We've just lowered the heat.
Hm. MRA rewriting history and skewing the world to fit their views as usual, I see. That's some impressive "rationalization hamstering" right there.
Yep, society at large doesn't scrutinize women for how they dress. Not one bit. So that has no influence at all, surely.
Confused?
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