YADNBU.
This makes me so sad actually, because the proliferation of sex in advertising and the cementing of the idea that women are objects is becoming so normalised. The problem for me is that this window display and attendant 'admiring' men isn't taking place in a vacuum.
I believe that Feminism is about Liberation, and about being genuinely free to make choices (and yes, that choice would include dressing how you like, being as sexual as you like and even considering yourself 'weaker' than men if you wanted).
Yes, loads of young women now dress in extremely provocative clothing, but how much of a choice is it really, when the shops they go to are stocked full of these clothes and little else? When the fashion magazines and music videos aren't offering too much of an alternative? When (imvho) the cosmapharmaceutical industry has pulled the greatest con trick in decades with the whole anti-aging schtick. When the percentage of women having cosmetic surgery has skyrocketed to the point where it has become completely normalised? All because women nowadays seem to have absorbed the all pervasive message that age=unattractive and without youth, sex and beauty for as long as possible you are somehow less valuable.
And all this is taking place alongside a sea shift in the media, which itself has taken place alongside the growth of the internet and the proliferation of internet porn. In a society where 60% of teenage boys have apparantly viewed online porn, and our media slide words like 'post-feminist' into the canon (what exactly does that mean by the way???) to imply that we've all done jolly well really and we can all move on from that silly 70's nonsense, what hope do we have?
And to all the feminist baiters, can I genuinely ask this. What about the women in China who are being forcibly taken to abortion centres to have their second pregnancies terminated? The women living in the Middle East and parts of Africa under extreme Sharia Law who are being stoned to death for adultery and denied an education and the right to work, or even sit in a car with a man? What about forced Female Gental Mutilation?
Since when did Feminism become entirely about sexuality instead of Gender, and since when did it become entirely the preserve of the West? There is so much more to Feminism than just this thread!