Why young women are exposing themselves: Part one

townhall.com ^ | 2/17/04 | Dennis Prager

[BenLurkin]

Dennis Prager bump.

[BackInBlack]

It's a shame. Somehow being feminine became worthy of derision. Being a full-time mother became worthy of derision. Refusing to be promiscuous became worthy of derision. Makes things confusing, that's for sure.

[TheWriterInTexas]

I like Dennis Prager, and there is something to what he is saying...but as a woman, myself, I believe the greater contributing factors to the degeneration of my sex is the push for sex as a replacement for love (breaking down the honor of family for the false promise of flings) and the erosion of the feminine mystique - that is, the belief that you are special and unique and worth the effort. Nowadays, young women have no mystique left - those who hold themselves back from decadence are criticized, not praised, and are labeled "unliberated" or "oppressed."

And the women who label them have bought into the lie that sexuality will bring them happiness and a sense of self worth, when what they really need is to be cherished and loved.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Why young women are exposing themselves: Part one

This coming from a guy...?

[weegee]

It's not just "exposure". It's sex in general that women will use to say "look at me".

It can be a flirty girl who kisses other girls passionately at a bar so that guys will look at her. It can be exposing her breasts for beads, photographers, drinks, etc.

"Girls Gone Wild"-type bottom feeders turned a weekend moment of wild abandon into "instant celebrity".

In a cultural realm where everyone young is trying to top everyone else, the threshold required to get noticed keeps moving.

Pierce your lips, your nipples, your genitals (and tell everyone). Flash strangers on your webcam. Brag about how young you were when you lost your virginity.

By the time they are in their 20s, they've "seen it, done it".

[weegee]

I agree.

[anonymous_user]

Somehow being feminine became worthy of derision... Makes things confusing, that's for sure.

Not really. Women acting like gender-confused, unstable whores means someone needs to "help" them... like the feminists.

[Prime Choice]

Playing with the sex drive, the most powerful force in nature, is far more dangerous than playing with fire.

While I am certainly in favor of a bit more common sense and modesty in today's fashions, I don't buy this "dangerous" line. Like it or not, men have the conscious ability to behave in a moral or immoral manner too. To claim otherwise insinuates that we're all just mindless Bill Clinton clones just waiting to be set off by the sight of cleavage and bare midriffs.

Sure, women should hold themselves in higher regard by dressing in a manner that respects themselves...but arguing that women should dress in a certain manner so as not to arouse men's desires is going the way of the Taliban. And I'll suffer none of that horse**** here.

[daybreakcoming]

I believe it is more complex. Reseach needs to be done on why women/mothers dress their young daughters as Britney wannabes. Are they trying to market them in a way that they themselves can't be marketed any longer? Is the media/parent teaching them they are of no value unless they dress this way?

[goldstategop]

No one is saying women shouldn't dress as they wish. However a woman who dresses too much like a man is announcing in effect her sex drive's not that much different from a man's. And so women who are less than modest in showing off their body in public shouldn't be surprised if men treat them more like a guy than like a lady. That's what happens when feminity is dead as a force in our society.

[thoughtomator]

I think there's a middle ground somewhere. Children - children! - dress today like prostitutes did 10 years ago. I live in the middle of New York City... believe me, I've seen it all. Once you have seen it all, however, dressing up girls like whores is not attractive at all... it's repulsive, and disgusting.

I'd be happy to settle for somewhere between 1950 and 1980 as a standard to move forward with. I'm not happy with the current state of abandonment of all decency.

[paulklenk]

As Kathy Bates said in Misery, "It's a theory."

[longtermmemmory]

because their mothers don't know what it means to be a woman. These girls have no fathers to teach them about men.

[BackInBlack]

What I meant was that it causes women to become gender-confused, and then makes men confused about how to act towards them

[XBob]

8 - About 10 years ago, I moved one summer, and after a month or so, I noticed that there was a small group of whores which gathered every morning down the road on my way to work.

I was thinking about moving to a better neighborhood because of this, until one morning, I was a bit late, and got behind the school bus, which was picking up the whores.

I was astonished, they were high school girls on their way to school, dressed like hookers.

[LiteKeeper]

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[MHGinTN]

Well and truly stated. 'Shame' is gone and 'cherish' is a forgotten word ...

[anonymous_user]

I was astonished, they were high school girls on their way to school, dressed like hookers.

The kicker is that the hookers don't have their parents buying them nice "school clothes" like the high schoolers.

[lewislynn]

This is all very interesting but pictures say a thousand words.