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In reply to the discussion: About the "me too." [View all]Demit
(11,238 posts)I once had a dress, it was a cute dress, that had a long zipper up the front with a decorative pull. I was hanging out with a group of friends in the neighborhood, and one boy just reached over & pulled the zipper down. Naturally, instead of thinking that HE HAD NO RIGHT to do that, I thought it was my fault for wearing a dress that zipped up the front. That incident made me start to become aware of how a lot of women's styles are designed to look like they're halfway off already, or easy to take off, like tube tops. I think designers are deliberately appealing to men's fantasies of taking a woman's clothes off. Young women today feel that they should be able to wear whatever they want, be as provocative as they want to be without repercussion. I don't know. Maybe they're right. I just know I never bought a dress like that again.