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To: marktwain

What is it revealing clothing reveals? Skin? Yes. Anything else?

When a careful reader reads interesting fiction, s/he looks for ideas beneath the surface, makes inferences. So, too, with the way a woman dresses? Possibly. Depends on the reader, I suppose.


15 posted on 11/18/2017 5:42:10 AM PST by MarDav
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What is it revealing clothing reveals? Skin? Yes. Anything else?


It obviously depends on many things. Men are expected to react to many non-verbal cues. Women give these cues all the time, both positive and negative.

In the current legal structure, those cues are ignored. The woman is always allowed to redefine the situation after the fact.

In most previous cultures, and in most other cultures around the world, it is women that have been held responsible for the non verbal cues more than men.

Men are more visually oriented, women are more verbally oriented.

In the United States, women have become the dominant force politically and in the culture over the last 50 years. They have rearranged the legal assumptions so that the man is defined as wrong, who must prove his innocence.

It is a reversal of most of history, but not obviously better or worse.

It is a step away from the rule of law to allow women the power to define a situation the way they want it defined, after the fact.


16 posted on 11/18/2017 6:05:23 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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