I know it's always been a thing, why is it? Why do girls want to show their bums? Is it for the boys? And just generally all the makeup and boob jobs etc. Help me understand as my dds skirt is getting shorter each day, still not up to her arse thankfully.
I hate it but I also feel like I'm being a prude or something, they can dress how they want etc but I don't believe this is what they really want, is it? To be looked at as objects?
Feminism: chat
Tiny skirts and arsed hanging out
mooshed · 07/06/2022 13:46
Sparklybutold · 07/06/2022 14:53
@Triffid1
Even if girls want to wear different, the clothes you can buy for girls is cut differently - it's just tighter to show body shape and where possible to show off boobs, bum etc. If girls want to wear stuff that not form fitting they tebs to have to buy ‘boys’ clothes. When I buy clothes for my daughter it tends to be boys clothes as it's loser, so more comfortable for her rough house, climb etc and just tends to be more fun and less cutesy.
Ncwinc · 07/06/2022 15:17
’They're reacting to the world in which they find themselves’
This ^
iCorvidae · 07/06/2022 13:55
because they want to
Its not our (your) job to police what they wear
GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 07/06/2022 14:08
It's unfeminist or at least unsisterly to say it, but I feel the same. See so many girls in school uniforms with the tiniest of skirts and it makes me feel a bit sickened, really, that they feel they have to show so much flesh to be...what? Fashionable? Attractive? Popular?
It genuinely wasn't the same when I was a teen in the 90s. We wore dungarees, baggy combats, hoodies. Yes, we'd dress up more for a night out on the pull, but not for just going to school or college. It makes sad that young women's identities have become so sexualised, one way or another.
ChagSameachDoreen · 07/06/2022 15:21
Shouldn't we as feminists be encouraging our daughters not to pander to the male gaze? Choicey choice feminism has got us nowhere. You must see that.
iCorvidae · 07/06/2022 13:55
because they want to
Its not our (your) job to police what they wear
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ChagSameachDoreen · 07/06/2022 15:21
Shouldn't we as feminists be encouraging our daughters not to pander to the male gaze? Choicey choice feminism has got us nowhere. You must see that.
iCorvidae · 07/06/2022 13:55
because they want to
Its not our (your) job to police what they wear
BeyondMyWits · 07/06/2022 15:39
Deep seated nature of the human animal. Young, attractive and fertile girls show off their attributes to get a high status alpha male (who doesn't need to show his body just his status). Has always been the case. People think they are making choices, but all through the animal kingdom it is the same.
Your brain is saying "I'm making my own style decisions, not for any man, I am confident in my choices", your body is saying "look at my ass, I want your babies"
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