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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I surprised no one got harassed as a teenager when wearing skimpy clothes. I learned not to wear a tank top and short shorts on a Greyhound bus.
But if your daughters are not getting harassed, more power to them. [/quote]

How have you not learned that it doesn't matter what a teenager/woman wears, she gets harassed.  I grew up in the conservative midwest, dressing conservatively, and my friends and I were harassed.  My DD is also harassed - even when she was wearing her unflattering softball uniform!

Harassment is a reflection of the person doing the harassing, not what the target is wearing.[/quote]

Then your experience is different than mine. I was harassed [b]more [/b]when wearing skimpy clothes. [/quote]

Proving the PP's point - you were harassed no matter what you wore, you were just harassed 'more' when you wore more revealing clothing. Yet, you're still judging girls/women for the behavior of boys/men.  smh[/quote]

[b]I'm not judging girls wearing short shorts and midriffs[/b]. I have no problem with that.
I'm just saying that when I was a teenager, I learned from experience not to wear skimpy clothes when I was using public transportation by myself. It would almost guarantee that I would be harassed.

I preferred to be cat called about once a month rather than have a man try to cop a feel or corner me, which was almost guaranteed when I dressed [b]slutty [/b]by myself on thr bus. What I wore made a difference in the level of harassment. [/quote]

The language you use to describe the clothes absolutely is judgmental.  You have internalized the misogyny.  Clothes do not make one 'slutty'.  You have may have perceived an increase in the harassment when you wore more revealing clothing but 'slutty' absolutely is a judgment. Do better. [/quote]

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