Women's self-loathing is big business and supports a global capitalist system

[MineralMan]

19. I'm not a father, so I can't speak to my own reaction, but

I've certainly heard a lot of fathers talk about this in relation to their own daughters. It's very troubling for them, and they aren't sure what to do about it, either. "You're not leaving the house dressed like that" is pretty ineffectual today, just as it has been in the past. Fathers stress about this stuff a lot when it comes to their own daughters. Sadly, the issue is often complicated by those same fathers having their eye caught by a woman who is dressed to attract attention.

We're awfully complicated, we humans. There's so much situational complexity to our reactions.

And then there are adolescents and 20-somethings. For many of them, all of this is ridiculous. Their priorities are sometimes quite different from those of an older generation. Personally, I remember being in that age group, and appearances were far more important to me at the time than they are now. If I think back on that earlier time, I can clearly see what the motivations of me and my peers were, and of both sexes. They were different than they are now.

I'm just not sure what the answer is, to be frank. I'm really not.