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I think it's quite possible to find extreme short shorts an ugly fashion that one wouldn't want to see on a young girl (or anyone) without getting into any slut shaming.  I work at a college and see young women walking around in ridiculously short shorts all the time.  Those shorts don't make them less smart or less hard working, but they must hurt a girl's lady parts.  And I was wearing those crazy short babydoll dresses in the 90s, and I'm sure people thought I was equally inappropriate.  Now I embrace my right as an old lady to say that the clothes kids wear today are weird and ugly.

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I agree -- "weird and ugly" is not slut-shaming. (And actually, I've thought every fashion since about 1995 has been weird and ugly!) But the OP was not about the OP's neighbor's teenage daughter wearing weird, ugly clothes. The OP was about the OP's neighbor's teenage daughter wearing clothes that will make men to leer, cat-call, and treat her like a slut. (The men don't want to do this! But the clothes will force them to all the same! Because men have no free will!)

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+1 to all of this.  I agree that many of the things I see on college campuses ([b]especially[/b] tank tops on the guys) are super-weird and ugly.  But women and girls need to know how to deal with unwanted male attention, and know that it is not their fault if men behave inappropriately.[/quote]

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