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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The sexual politics around this question are disturbing. The underlying premise is that there is something wrong with women being overtly sexual.

The response might be that you can be sexual without dressing to advertise that fact. Which is true. But if there wasn't anything wrong with female sexuality, this discussion wouldn't happen. (Or is it because she's getting older? Same basic thing, except now the premise is that there is something negative about older women being sexual.) [/quote]

It's not sexual politics to realize that we have a choice as to how we want to dress and the message we choose to give others.  Do you really think that Rihanna, Britney, Beyonce, and Mariah aren't aware of the outfits they wear as opposed to Michelle O., Laura B., Nancy P., and HRC?[/quote]

Please state explicitly what message each is making. If you can do that with judgment free language (e.g. no "lady" or "slut" type language with implicit value judgments), we can better evaluate whether there are sexual politics involved with how we evaluate the clothing choices.[/quote]

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