Why the bikini photos?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depending on school many girls are going to get their Mrs degree...obviously this isn't something people talk about on this board, but it's a real thing especially in the south. And, aren't we past shaming women for what they want to wear and what makes them confident?

Skimpy clothes don't "make women confident." Women who are not confident (as well-rounded humans, not appealing sexual partners) wear skimpy clothes.

And you have NO evidence, other than your dated assumptions, that "many girls are going to get their Mrs. degree."

Your use of "girls" is the big tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, would you make the same comment about guys who would post shirtless beach pics in their introductions on college freshman FB/insta groups? Or waterpolo players and swimmer guys, who would likely include their speedo pics?

Drop this insane double standard and stop policing female bodies. Or move to Saudi Arabia or Utah

I'm the pp below you at 15:09 that said some of these are fake. The specific student I noticed was male.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, would you make the same comment about guys who would post shirtless beach pics in their introductions on college freshman FB/insta groups? Or waterpolo players and swimmer guys, who would likely include their speedo pics?

Drop this insane double standard and stop policing female bodies. Or move to Saudi Arabia or Utah

Yea of course. Guys submitting shirtless or Speedo pics for the college "look book" would be just as thirsty and pathetic.

I’m the PP who made the commodities comment. Yep! A male doing it is also devaluing himself by acting like a commodity. I do think women suffer more, even in our more progressive culture from being treated as commodities. It’s so depressing. Don’t kid yourself that American women are more liberated than others. I’m sure there are some liberated women who post bikini shots, but when a teenaged girl does this, it screams victim of sexism, not warrior against it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They want to signal they are "hot". Whether the girls totally understand what they are doing and that they are signalling sexual availability? Some do, some don't. Some girls' parents want them to land a guy in college still, so the man is the plan. The girls with the least amount of clothes or the tightest clothes usually date more guys.

+1. I love how all the pearl clutchers are trying to deny basic human instincts. Hot = higher social status = hot friends = hot sorority = dating and "mixing" with hot high status rich boys = happy parents. This isn't rocket science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not understanding why teens would post bikini photos to introduce themselves to their new classmates. This is crazy!
Wondering if all college teens do this.

Because they are adults and they can, why is this a hard concept to understand?

[Anonymous]

Okay, here come the facts…
The spread of photos you see from girls are meant to showcase how good they look in a variety of settings (the individual pic, the “look at all my friends” pic, the “I had a prom date” pic, the bikini pic, and the party pic). They do this because as girls scroll through pictures of potential roommates, they are looking for someone that will look good alongside them in their pics on their Instagram feed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg! A bikini! Take thee to a nunnery!

Get* thee to a nunnery.

A nunnery has a second meaning…brothel.