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In reply to the discussion: Women in public, no matter how they're dressed, are not "inviting" ANYTHING. [View all]chervilant
(8,267 posts)Let's try this from a different perspective:
I have a dear friend who looks like Morgan Fairchild, only with red hair and green eyes. She has a slender, well-proportioned body. She dresses stylishly, but not provocatively (eg, no short skirts or skimpy blouses).
For her entire life, she's had to contend with clueless men staring at her, wolf whistling at her, making suggestive or sexually vulgar remarks to her...I could go on and on.
I remember walking through the Galleria with her and watching a guy turn completely around so that he could continue watching her -- until the woman HE was with punched him on his arm hard enough to knock him into the wall. When I asked my friend if she saw that, she said, "I've learned to look straight ahead and not respond to those sexist asswipes!"
That has been her life experience -- with men who can't understand "what's wrong with staring."