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How girls and women dress in western countries *MNHQ adding content warning for SA as requested*

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Hadmysay · 20/05/2025 19:54

It's an interesting conversation

www.tiktok.com/@danielle90sbaby/video/7501747121238936854

www.tiktok.com/@meetthealis/video/7503903907920317718. Is this unfeminist to feel like this or do they have a point?

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pointythings · 22/06/2025 18:35

Hadmysay · 22/06/2025 01:08

But let’s just say for your sake it did improve it…By taking away the freedoms of only one group (women), you are saying that they should be governed by another

We live by laws everyday.
There's laws against murder,theft etc.
They will get over it.

Laws should apply equally to everyone. Yours don't.

The only solution to this issue is for men to learn not to rape. And we can get as nasty about that as we want, as far as I'm concerned. Rape someone? Lose the equipment you used. That might focus minds.

IOSTT · 22/06/2025 20:42

Hadmysay · 21/06/2025 04:28

No another reason WAS because they viewed white women was easy because in our culture it's normal to sleep around. Much normal back then.
Way more common compared to their culture and another reason was how we dress. Do you want to know how I know this? Because many of them have told me themselves.
Again I'm not blaming the victims but I am acknowledging reasons why these girls were seen like this.

Then YOU can start to EDUCATE these men

IOSTT · 22/06/2025 20:52

your never going to convince me it's a good thing for schoolgirls everywhere you look to have their skirts so short you can see what they had for breakfast.

Ewwwwwwwww, you’re definitely male; no female human would look that hard or think like that. Otherwise, you are married to a raping paedophile and are trying to convince yourself it was all the fault of the “slutty 7 year old” and not the fault of your poor innocent husband

Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 04:57

Insanityisnotastrategy · 22/06/2025 01:02

If they couldn't control themselves, they would be assaulting women in front of their friends, families and colleagues. They absolutely can control themselves. Rape is a choice, and it's unbelievably stupid to swallow this narrative about men being so inflamed by lust they can't help themselves.

You've apparently been chatting with lots of misogynists, but fail to see that they're the problem, not women wearing whatever the fuck they want which is actually normal, healthy and fine. Maybe they won't change, maybe men like this will always exploit vulnerable women and girls and have handy excuses for why they should get a pass on that, but here in the sane world, we don't pass the responsibility for that onto women to follow impossible shifting rules and goalposts to avoid their inevitable predation.

If they couldn't control themselves, they would be assaulting women in front of their friends, families and colleagues.

A lot can control themselves and a lot cant. Also a lot can but might not be able to control themselves in that moment.

we don't pass the responsibility for that onto women to follow impossible shifting rules and goalposts to avoid their inevitable predation.

Fine then nothing will change simple xx

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:01

Thisshirtisonfire · 22/06/2025 00:42

Omg OP please expect more from men. They aren't some different species they are human beings.
They are capable of not getting an election just coz they saw a child in a crop top.
They do it as an active choice because they are allowed to get away with it.
Clothing doesn't protect women from this. Enforcing modestly just allows those types of men to entrench themselves further in the belief that women aren't really people worthy of any respect. You think women in hijab are treated better than women wearing shorts? You are on another planet. Any man who thinks it's acceptable to sexualise a woman without her permission or views having some skin on show as some kind of permission.. is not going to someow then turn around and truly respect any woman who dresses more modestly. It's just a different facet of misogyny. They just think women are all whore or mothers. Bodies defined by their relationship to male sexuality.
You can't make men like this respect you by covering up. It's no protection whatsoever. They just might try and marry you and impregnate you and get you to do their laundry. That's literally the only difference it makes to them. Who's suitable to be a wife and mother and who's just a whore.

Do you think either of those things is all you are or all you want to be??

Any woman with any type of self respect should be going nowhere near any man who thinks women's worth is somehow tied up in what clothing they wear.
That's the bottom line.
Thise men don't suddenly change because you dressed like a wife. It's simply the other side of their disgusting misogyny. You aren't suddenly 'safe' you are just dehumanised in a slightly different way.

Everyone is different. I've already said not all men are the same.
There's a lot that can control themselves and there's a lot that for whatever reason,probably due to porn,the way women over sexualize themselves and dress cant and have corrupted their minds to the point of no return.
And unpopular opinion how you dress does say a lot about you as a person. I mean the type of lifestyle choices a lot of these scantily clad women live in this country anyway don't tend to be the healthiest for themselves or women in general.

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:04

MuckFusk · 22/06/2025 06:57

Are you really equating laws against violent acts and theft with laws about the way women should dress? You must know that's a false comparison. Murder and theft cause personal and social harm. What inherent harm is there in wearing a short skirt?
I'm not a fan of women objectifying themselves with "sexy" clothes, but I'm appalled that anyone would think it justifies oppression.

How women dress can cause societal harm.
Especially for young girls but your not ready for that conversation are you.
So yes I will continue to use that as a comparison.

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:05

MuckFusk · 22/06/2025 07:03

Nonsense. If they couldn't control themselves they'd be raping women in front of witnesses, even right in front of traffic cops at high noon in the middle of the high street. The fact that they take precautions against being caught 100% proves they can control it.

They can control themselves in certain instances but there's definitely a switch for some of them or a trigger.
Obviously not all men

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:11

MuckFusk · 22/06/2025 07:15

Nothing will change if women cover up either. It will only change if men choose to stop such behaviour. It's completely on them. Get it through your head that revealing clothing is not the reason why sexual assault happens and that women cannot change men. Nobody can change anybody else. Men would have to want to change and they obviously don't. You are living on Fantasy Island if you think anything women do stops rapists from wanting to rape.
I do get where this comes from though. A lot of women want to believe they have some control over men with what they do because it gives them a false sense of security that they won't be raped themselves. It's not true, so stop lying to yourself and face reality. It's an awful reality, but the solution to that isn't denying it.

Nothing will change if women cover up either. It will only change if men choose to stop such behaviour

Well that's really gonna happen when you keep rewarding their perverted selves with access to your body both sexually and visually isn't it. Giving the perverts exactly what they want.
I truly believe if we ban porn,encourage slightly more gender segregation (not all the way but especially in schools), teach young boys about the dangers of oversexualizing women and about consent, and implementing a ban by law on scantily clad dress and disuading women from sleeping around rape would go down in the uk.
I would put good money on it.

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:13

MiloMinderbinder925 · 22/06/2025 08:23

Again, you're making this false equivalence. You seem to think that women are equally responsible for men's behaviour. They're not. No one is responsible for someone else's behaviour. We have criminal responsibility set at 10 in the UK meaning that a 10 year old knows right from wrong.

Women have always dressed for the male gaze, look at the tiny waists and bustles of the Victorian's for example. However, as has been pointed out to you many times, women are 85% more likely to be attacked by someone they know. Clothes therefore are not a factor. 50% of attacks are by a partner or former partner and the reason behind the attacks are a need for dominance and control; not clothes.

They're not. No one is responsible for someone else's behaviour.

Well carry on the way things are then.

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:14

MiloMinderbinder925 · 22/06/2025 08:27

It's been proven that the more you prosecute, the better the laws, the less sexual assault happens. In countries where men act with impunity, rates are sky high. It's not me who has their head in the clouds, you're the one that thinks there's less assault in countries that control women's bodies. Despite all the evidence.

you're the one that thinks there's less assault in countries that control women's bodies. Despite all the evidence

I said there's less assault in some countries that control women's bodies. Get it right.
Not all

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:16

StressedStepmum36 · 22/06/2025 10:01

It’s not really my problem how the male brain works. They don’t get a free pass because they’re just poor men who can’t help behaving poorly because their brains are bad. Like we’re supposed to feel sorry for them because pesky women keep inciting them to violence by existing, diddums etc.

You mention in another comment that women make their bodies more accessible.

That’s exactly the point. It’s my body, and is not owned by any man or any other person. Including people like you who believe we should just cover up incase the poor men can’t control themselves - which they can.

Within the law, we can dress those bodies however we please, and the answer isn’t to limit a woman’s personal choice to stop men raping them. The answer is that men should stop raping women.

The only person at fault for raping a woman, is the rapist.

The only person responsible for objectifying a woman going about her life wearing clothes, is the objectifier.

It’s not really my problem how the male brain works

Well don't complain when these things still happen then. Ive already said nothing will change.

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:17

pointythings · 22/06/2025 08:42

You don't understand how research works, do you? A case study cannot legitimately be extrapolated globally.

A case study cannot legitimately be extrapolated globally

Where did I say it did?

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:23

MiloMinderbinder925 · 22/06/2025 11:16

How do these men view women in general? And Western men are also misogynist OP.

They see western women as easy and stereotype us as being "whores" because many sleep around and have a lot more sexual partners than women from their cultures.
And also the ones I have spoken to say dress is a big factor as well since we wear less clothes than women from their cultures as well.
And yes western men can also be misogynistic as well

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:29

GreenCandleWax · 22/06/2025 11:28

In the 1960s feminists were not so much "combatting sexism and misogyny" in the way we understand it now. They were revelling in the new freedoms which allowed them to have sex lives as men always have. The availability of contraception and a freeing up of older social restrictons made it possible. Since then we (in the west) take such freedom and right to equality for granted, particularly after the mid 1970s equality legislation, so the emphasis now is more on addressing male behaviours that adversely affect women.

which allowed them to have sex lives as men always have.

Which was a really stupid thing and the damage that has left has lasted generations.
Because men can do it we must do it too?
I've never subscribed to this and never will.

so the emphasis now is more on addressing male behaviours that adversely affect women.

I agree we should address it but we should address both and the part women play in it as well and still play.
This is something we very rarely talk about and unless we do things won't ever change.
You can't have a society,both men and women who promote such unhealthy lifestyles then only turn round to blame one gender. It won't change anything.

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:30

GreenCandleWax · 22/06/2025 12:14

A tik tok discussion between random people is not "evidence". Do you have any idea what research means when you mention evidence? It means carefully designed studies using rigorous methodology to obtain and analyse the results, not randoms on the internet talking about their half-baked opinions.
I asked you what evidence because you said, "there is so much evidence" that scantily clad women have a negative effect on society.
So I ask you again, what evidence that there is "so much" of? Do you have any at all?
Thought not.

A tik tok discussion between random people is not "evidence

It's not tiktok.
These people are professionals.
Give it a watch you might learn something

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:33

Bex5490 · 22/06/2025 13:25

You completely ignored my point that this law would only target one group and pretty much my whole post…

It wouldn't. Just because women dress more provocatively than men don't mean men wouldn't be targeted either.
I'm pretty sure for muslims for example women have to cover up but men aren't allowed in a mosque wearing shorts. The laws will affect both genders but differently

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:34

pointythings · 22/06/2025 18:35

Laws should apply equally to everyone. Yours don't.

The only solution to this issue is for men to learn not to rape. And we can get as nasty about that as we want, as far as I'm concerned. Rape someone? Lose the equipment you used. That might focus minds.

Again it's because women over here anyway percentage wise tend to dress more scantily clad than men.
There will be laws for men as well

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:36

IOSTT · 22/06/2025 20:42

Then YOU can start to EDUCATE these men

We can educate both men and women. I don't care if you don't agree with me

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Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:37

IOSTT · 22/06/2025 20:52

your never going to convince me it's a good thing for schoolgirls everywhere you look to have their skirts so short you can see what they had for breakfast.

Ewwwwwwwww, you’re definitely male; no female human would look that hard or think like that. Otherwise, you are married to a raping paedophile and are trying to convince yourself it was all the fault of the “slutty 7 year old” and not the fault of your poor innocent husband

Erm I'm a woman.
In the op it has two tiktok videos from WOMEN saying the same thing.
Belive it or not there are some of us who still have a bit of class and sense to know it's not good for anyone much less children to be dressing like that.

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MiloMinderbinder925 · 24/06/2025 07:17

Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:13

They're not. No one is responsible for someone else's behaviour.

Well carry on the way things are then.

As has been stated many times, we need to act as we have a VAWAG crisis, the world does. We need a seismic shift in thinking and your views are a perfect example of what needs to change. Thank you for demonstrating that so clearly.

MiloMinderbinder925 · 24/06/2025 07:20

Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:14

you're the one that thinks there's less assault in countries that control women's bodies. Despite all the evidence

I said there's less assault in some countries that control women's bodies. Get it right.
Not all

You're wrong. There's more assault in countries where women are punished for men's behaviour because they tend to be deeply misogynistic. Unless you have evidence that says otherwise.

WhenYouSayNothingAtAll · 24/06/2025 07:21

Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:11

Nothing will change if women cover up either. It will only change if men choose to stop such behaviour

Well that's really gonna happen when you keep rewarding their perverted selves with access to your body both sexually and visually isn't it. Giving the perverts exactly what they want.
I truly believe if we ban porn,encourage slightly more gender segregation (not all the way but especially in schools), teach young boys about the dangers of oversexualizing women and about consent, and implementing a ban by law on scantily clad dress and disuading women from sleeping around rape would go down in the uk.
I would put good money on it.

Then you’re the deluded one. Funnily enough, we had all that throughout the centuries. Women and children were still raped.

MiloMinderbinder925 · 24/06/2025 07:24

Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:23

They see western women as easy and stereotype us as being "whores" because many sleep around and have a lot more sexual partners than women from their cultures.
And also the ones I have spoken to say dress is a big factor as well since we wear less clothes than women from their cultures as well.
And yes western men can also be misogynistic as well

That's not what I asked you. I'm perfectly aware that men from regressive countries have a negative view of Western women. I asked you how they view women in general. Spoiler: in a deeply dehumanising and derogatory way.

I'm bored now.

pointythings · 24/06/2025 08:57

Hadmysay · 24/06/2025 05:17

A case study cannot legitimately be extrapolated globally

Where did I say it did?

You said it when you posted that case study. You posted it as 'evidence' of your position. It has been pointed out that this is not how reserch works - perhaps you should do a little reading.

So you would not be in favour of seriously heavy punishments for rape then? Men are an afterthought, it's the women who must be punished by forcing them to cover up?

Insanityisnotastrategy · 24/06/2025 09:31

IOSTT · 22/06/2025 20:52

your never going to convince me it's a good thing for schoolgirls everywhere you look to have their skirts so short you can see what they had for breakfast.

Ewwwwwwwww, you’re definitely male; no female human would look that hard or think like that. Otherwise, you are married to a raping paedophile and are trying to convince yourself it was all the fault of the “slutty 7 year old” and not the fault of your poor innocent husband

Skin-crawling isn't it.

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