Posted on 04/18/2023 7:17:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the seasons change and the weather warms, American adults are yet again being subjected to the uncomfortable spectacle of teenage girls wearing outfits more befitting a runway show than a school, a store, or any other public setting. Every winter I hope the trend loses steam or reverses, but every spring it returns worse than the previous year.
I wish there were a way I could word this in a less tawdry manner, but I can’t, so I’ll just be blunt: Mom and Dad, we can see the bottom of your teenage daughter’s ass. And we shouldn’t be seeing the bottom of your teenage daughter’s ass. At her age, the only one who should is her proctologist. And it’s your fault that we’re seeing it.
I hesitated writing this article because I foresee my arguments falling on deaf ears of those who feel I have no right, as a male, to dictate social norms to females. But this is an erroneous approach. I make my arguments not as a male to a female, but as an adult to a child. My gender is incidental to my arguments, and I would have no qualms with a female adult objecting to a male teenager dressing inappropriately. I’m specifically targeting the current trend among teenage females not from any leftist chimera of implicit misogyny or ingrained patriarchy, but because the consequences of said behaviors are far more serious for the teenage female than for the teenage male.
Sex and sexual behavior are always more consequential for females than for males. A teenage boy dressing inappropriately can harm himself socially, but never sexually. But as our daughters are being hypersexualized at younger and younger ages by mass marketing, the celebrity class, social media, and rapists posing as teachers,
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Well a tight sweater can be pretty “provacative”.
I googled it and went to their website. Looks a lot baggy gym shorts to me.
What? I too grew up in the 60’s. Do not ever remember seeing women dress like they do today. Guess I lived under a rock.
It’s about time someone finally spoke up. The ONLY reason girls dress in a revealing, provocative way is to attract the attention of a guy.
A woman/girl can dress very classy and nice without sending messages that they are available.
I've seen adult women dress like hookers for church.
Holy hookers?
Me too! Years ago, I taught a group of high school confirmation students. When their big day approached, I told them to dress for the church rite in a manner their grandmother would approve of. Not their parents. It worked. This was a very classy group that showed up.
My son and his friends in high school had a slang term for overly sexy girls: THOT. That ho over there.
I taught my son that there were people you were going to have to show more respect for, than the person showed to themselves. You are going to have to avert your eyes from those who lack the judgment and self respect to dress with dignity.
Sure, just ask Dylan Mulvaney.
How recent is recent for you? Are you not old enough to remember the 1960's and 1970's. It was also a thing in the 1920's too.
Hot pants and halters were the norm
But not at church or shopping
The sure do. Most of what I see today are very short, loose fitting thus pieces and parts are hanging out. At least in the 50’s when they bent over or sat down you didn’t get the full view like today. Give me the 50’s anytime.
I guess I don’t get out much. I don’t see anything like that. Thankfully.
Great story. I think kids dress provocatively to test the limits. When there’s no parental/other adult pushback, they think they’ve “won” something. They haven’t.
Thank you for pushing back.
I think the difference is girls could NOT dress provacatively at SCHOOL...we had a dress code...in 1969...I got told not to wear a culotte dress I had made because the hem was just above the knees.
And, not at school, also.
The first college I attended was a private Christian College. 1971. The women’s dean would literally walk around with a ruler and measure the girl’s skirts from the knee to the bottom of the skirt.
Not a bad idea to become a Muslim. At least, we can become masculine again. Right now, we are effeminate.
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