Anyway, what this story is really about, is that today, dressing up like a prostitute is “normal” way to dress up. Poor teens of today can’t tell the difference and so they’ll even go like that to a school ball!
How does a prostitute dress? Clingy dress only just covering ass, high heels, bright red lipstick. Oh dear.

Cassie, your inconvenient truths are spoiling the baby boomers’ narrative about how they brought down the establishment and changed the world.

What is wrong, is telling young people that sexual thoughts are “impure”, while at the same time they are saturated with hyper-sexualised and objectifying images of female bodies by a mass media that uses sex to sell anything from fucking soft drinks to socks.

Nailed it.

The US (and other Western nations) are churning out sexualised advertising, music videos; computer games, etc, etc, and a few blokes are upset at what one woman wears?

I’d say they’ve lost the plot.

@ Cassie – more secretive, you mean. Domestic violence and sexual abuse existed. It was just done behind closed doors. Just to keep society “a lot more stable”.

there were all those things plus massive amounts of homophobia, domestic abuse etc etc – only those too blind to see blame modernity

I did not give a specific example. I pointed out that the concept (note that word) is the same.

Furthermore, it is YOUR interpretation that girls dress in a sexually attractive manner when they dress for a ball / prom.

Not all of them do.

Many of them dress for approval of other girls, NOT men or boys. Ever think about that?

And anyway, that’s all completely immaterial, because men and boys are completely in control of their impulses because they’re civilised human beings. And if they feel “out of control” because an attractive female is dressed attractively right in front of them then they can remove themselves, or restrain themselves from, you know, raping her or otherwise committing any kind of crime.

And if they can’t? Then they’re not fit for civilised society.

Completely ignoring the context in which the opinion is presented and completely ignoring the experience from which the opinion originates… when you are a member of the more powerful group and the opinion you deride is originated and from the less powerful group… and you’re telling the less powerful group “you’re doing it wrong”?

Massive Fail. dude.

Stop telling me, a woman, how to do feminsim. And don’t tell me I’m doing it wrong. You. Have. No. Idea.

It’s not just opinion. It’s lived experience and thought as well.

“Funny old me. When I consider an opinion, I happen to think it correct to evaluate the opinion on its own merits, and not depending on the gender of the person who expressed it.”

That’s where you’ve gone wrong. Opinions can have different meaning depending on the context – such as time, place, who the opinion comes from, and who the opinion is about.

“It was a very short clingy dress ..add high heels & bright red lipstick- um daughter you look kinda like a… call girl . It’s a school ball, not a frigging night club.”

Can someone confirm what year this is? My computer says 2014, but the drivel I’m reading on the screen suggests it’s 1950.