Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?

Wall Street Journal ^ | 03/19/2011 | JENNIFER MOSES

[coop71]

Where are you shopping?! I just did a random online check of several popular girls stores (Justice, Old Navy, Gap, CrewCuts) and, while they do have spaghetti strap tops, the tops are not belly-baring at all and there are no Daisy Dukes that I could find. Shorts, yes, but not the kind that let a person’s bum hang out. Many girls wear a t-shirt under their spaghetti strap top. It’s cute, and modest.

[JudgemAll]

Empowerment is about impotence in reality. It is about cynical abandon.

[Red Badger]

These had cuffs, not cutoffs.....

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We're embarrassed, and we don't want to be, God forbid, hypocrites...

What is hypocritical about saying "I did something and it was wrong, I regret doing it and I wish that you would learn from my mistake"?

I really don't get that concept.

Can only perfect people point out that something is wrong?

Or is there a empirical standard of what is right that is still true no matter who is saying it?

[FrogMom]

Smallish town 75 miles from Tucson.

Was shopping at Target.

[FrogMom]

P.S. We don’t have Justice, Old Navy, Gap or CrewCuts.

[Tax-chick]

is there a empirical standard of what is right that is still true no matter who is saying it

Yes.

[j_tull]

Wow, great tactic! Mine’s 12 going on 22 and has been eschewed by her “friends” for wearing “old lady panties” instead of thongs. 12 year olds, thongs?

[packrat35]

DON’T FORGET FLEA MARKETS ALSO.

[j_tull]

I have to step back from time to time and admit I admire the Muslims’ take on this whole matter.

Are you setting up any female circumcision parties for your girls, dumba$$? That's just about the dumbest thing I've heard in my 10+ years here.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Thank you.

Sometimes I just need to hear it.

[fightinJAG]

Exactly. It’s extremely unprofessional. It is not business attire and it is not day attire either. Half the women on TV look either like they are about to go play tennis or to a cocktail party. It looks very stupid.

Also as of last summer or so, almost all women on TV, having gone about as far as they could with showing their boobs, then went to sleeveless dresses/tops. First, most women don’t have the arms to do that, esp. on TV. But this simply added to the inappropriateness of their look. I see Dana Perino in a sleeveless, lowcut dress— YUCK.

But the real point is that all all this skin does is cheapen the impact of seeing skin. Is that what people want?

[fightinJAG]

Yes. It's really depressing and disgusting. And truly old ladies getting new tattoos. That's just ridiculous.

The Libs managed to take the sexy out of sexy, every last bit of it. No wonder they are flailing about looking for some place, any place, any way shape or form, to find some kind of a thrill. Sex is a tired joke if you "discovered" it when you were six, your teachers shoved it in your face, like learning multiplication tables, from 2nd grade on, and you engaged in it just because with whatzhis/hername and now you're 30 years old and nothing normal is powerful like sex rightly should be . . .

Okay, this is from that site that is not welcome here, but it really is an article all y'all should read:

Why You're Not Married:

Reason #3:

3. You're a Slut. Hooking up with some guy in a hot tub on a rooftop is fine for the ladies of Jersey Shore -- but they're not trying to get married. You are. Which means, unfortunately, that if you're having sex outside committed relationships, you will have to stop. Why? Because past a certain age, casual sex is like recreational heroin -- it doesn't stay recreational for long.

Actually, casual sex pretty much ruins real sex forever. Sorry, but the thrill --- the real thrill --- is gone once it's gone.

[Niuhuru]

At a lot of ‘fashion’ stores, there is nothing but garbage. When I was fifteen and worked at Fashion Bug, there was some good stuff, but these days it’s all garbage, with hideously low necklines.

[Windflier]

I don't.

Neither do I, although my 13 year old daughter shows no interest in 'tarting up'.

Fortunately (for both of us), she's never been subjected to, nor thrust into the sort of social prison that forces girls to 'follow the herd' off a cliff.

[Windflier]

Never trust anyone over thirty. That was the mantra of the 60’s generation. Now that they are all pushing 60 they find out how really stupid they were...

Depends... If they're still liberal, then they never figured out how stupid they were. Sort of like this author.

[Windflier]

I’ll have four teenage sons at once, eventually.

When I hit 18, my mom officially had five teenagers under her roof. She's still nuts to this very day .. LOL

[MasterGunner01]

While flipping through cable channels I sometimes cross paths with MTV, VH1, BET, and Univision. Talk about women as sex objects — yikes!! The worst offender seems to be Univision. The programming pretty much originates in Mexico City, from what I can tell, and it is positively obsessed with T&A, with a lot of emphasis on the “T”. Also, the younger the better seems to be ideal — 25 is elderly and 30 is nursing home fare. I find it hard to imagine that people actually watch such garbage, but there's and audience of tasteless people out there to be satisfied, I guess.

[iowamark]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/in-february-univision-beat-nbc-growing-its-audience-as-four-major-nets-lost-ground/
“In February, Univision Beat NBC, Growing Its Audience As Four Major Nets Lost Ground”

[MasterGunner01]

Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour, Wolf Blitzed, and What's His Name are deeply depressed. No one’s watching them because there's so much T&A on Univision? Who'd a thunk it? Wait, Keith Oberdork is looking for a job. Maybe he can get audience share back. Oh, MSNBC fired him -- not likely then.