Moms: Please Don't Do This.

[redqueen]

117. You didn't specify what kind of attention you meant,

and based on your description of it being something that they would be cudgeled for, I inferred it was something more intrusive than a glance.

IMO staring is harassment. It's rude, and people don't do it to people who are not clearly welcoming the attention, if they perceive the person they're treating rudely as having a higher status than themselves.

I'm 43 and I have known many men to be fine with their daughters dressing as sexy as they want. These are usually men with lower levels of education, as I'm sure many of the mothers who allow it are as well. If being uneducated is one of the "issues" you refer to, then I suppose you have a point.

If, however, you are referring to women who have been raped at a young age, molested as a child, or otherwise abused, then I find the use of "issues" to refer to their hardships as being offensive and a tactic that serves to stigmatize people unfairly.