Pmoney, chill out! Geesh! This is supposed to be a light hearted thread. Now I gotta go and be snippy again.
I hung up my "ho clothes" lets see, oh 10 years ago! So that made me about 21, just right after my son was born. I could probably still get away with wearing them if I wanted to act as if I were a teenager again. Common sense tells me (in the words of Bush Sr) "That wouldn't be Prudent"!
I personally think it's horrible that women feel that they have to dress like a nun (or a man) to be respected. I refuse. I try to wear clothes that accentuate my positive girly features. That is after all what I am. I like who I am and what I look like. My husband appreciates when I go out looking good (to work or to dinner), instead of hidden in layer upon layer of baggy clothes (he gets enough of that around the house, since I'm always cold).
And if all my guy friends had the view "that they'd like to just bang a girl in ho clothes and leave them on the side of the road", I think I'd rid myself of them. Anyone callous enough to think of using any human being and discarding them alongside the road shows a complete lack of character. I suppose it is also okay in their minds to rape a girl because her skirt was too short. After all, she was obviously advertising that she was wanting it. That's just ridiculous thinking.
On another note.. Why is it that so many women look towards the opinion of men when it comes to what is acceptable and what isn't acceptable to wear. You've got women who go way off the deep end with ho clothes in desperate attempt to attract a man, then you've got the women desperately seeking respect and approval from men, and must be taken seriously, so they hide everything so as not to "be an object of desire" to them. Good grief it all makes me crazy. I choose to dress like a girl, act like a girl, pretty myself up like a girl because I am a girl. I like being a girl. If by me being me earns me some kind of label from a bunch of men then so be it. I choose not to wear "ho clothes", not because I might be considered trash, I do it as a public service for men and women alike. I could blind millions with as white as my behind is!
(Edited by Christy at 10:41 am on Nov. 7, 2001)