Posts by Tess Rooney
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"I’m not sure how we get from ‘short skirt’ to ‘promiscuous’, though..."
Short skirts highlight the upper thighs. They skim just below the buttocks. As a woman walks in a short skirt her hip movement is accentuated and her thighs can be seen rubbing one another.
None of this causes promiscuity.
However it does send a sexual signal. I'm saying we should reign in teenagers from giving out sexual signals. If you disagree with me, fine.
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"So what is your objection to young people in short skirts if you realise it is not harmful? Seriously, if you don’t think that they are “asking for it” I don’t grasp what your issue is. Because if it is just that sometimes teenagers act sexual, you won’t win that battle. See: the youth of ALWAYS."
I don't think anyone ever "asks" for rape, no matter how anyone ever dresses. Rape is always the fault of the rapist.
I don't agree with schools allowing kids to dress in a sexually provocative way. I think adults have a duty to tamp down raging hormones until kids grow up and their rational brains kick in. Well at least until 18, although as someone said the brain fully matures later.
We won't win the battle about a lot of things, doesn't mean we should agree with them.
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"Anyone of any age of any gender should be able to wear what they like, when they like, and not be abused for it."
No one should be abused full stop.
"Her teacher went against most of the Code of Ethics that all registered teachers must adhere to."
I agree.
"Do not conflate your personal experience onto this child."
I've tried to not talk specifically about this girl. The attitudes I have read about her really disturb me. I have tried to talk about teenagers generally.
"I don’t like it when young women wear revealing clothing."
Why not?
"I would defend them."
As would I. I would expect any decent human being to do so.
"I would have to say to you that it really doesn’t matter what message we want to send with our clothing. I can guarantee you that the message you will never be sending is “Rape me”, or “Abuse me”."
I completely agree.
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"You do realise that if someone finds a young girl tittilating and does something that she does not agree to they are at fault not her, right?"
Of course!
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@Deborah
You're quite wrong. You're looking at my Catholicism and either not knowing or not taking into account my university social experiences. I don't think women who wear short skirts are "sluts" at all. Given my social history I'm quite comfortable hanging around people dressed up in fetish gear and I know that their clothing has no bearing on their sexual behavior. But these people are adults, not 14 year olds.
Clothing sends messages, see the GQ Glee photo shoot if you disagree. Does this mean Lea Michele is actually sexually promiscuous? No, absolutely not. But those photos were designed to titillate men and thus to sell magazines.
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I see your Britney and raise you a Glee:
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Emma - I didn't say that KAOS parties were irrelevant, and I mentioned a party for the specific reason of my memory of the guy in the silver hot pants. You just happen to know it was a KAOS party because either you were there and remember too or you know that was where I partied bar a very few exceptions.
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@Craig, there's a difference between looking sexy and being sexually available.
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Emma: yeah but at KAOS parties we weren't 14. And we dressed the way we did to get attention from each other. KAOS parties were about consensual sexual expression between adults (among other things like dancing and just generally having fun). But when I wore skimpy clothes or merely underware it was because I was out to look sexy. None of us dressed up in party wear for girls' nights.
Did wearing that little make me promiscuous? No. But it certainly sent a sexual signal. That was the whole point.
Adult women can do and dress as they wish, but even they are getting messages to cover up when they dress, as per the Stuff article. I don't think anyone should be called slutty let alone a teenage girl by a person in power over her. But I think acknowledging the short skirt/sexy school girl trope is fair enough.
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I just googled "sexy school girl". It was short skirt world folks.