Comments on: What Do Women Wear?

By: JAVSimson

JAVSimson — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 23:33:31 +0000

Fran, I SO agree. Why are we still allowing males to dictate what women wear? I’m afraid we’re pretty brainwashed–even “liberated” women. I suspect that instinct has a lot to do with the way women defer to men. It’s not all just cultural conditioning. Maybe the feistier women (females as strong or determined as males) simply didn’t breed as much–didn’t have as many children–as their more compliant sisters. Among mammals in general, males are stronger than females. So they can battle other males for mating privileges and can overcome resistance from unwilling females.

By: Fran Johns

Fran Johns — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 01:24:47 +0000

This is interesting to revisit in light of the awful Burkini ban stuff going on in France. Clothing, lack of it, style of it or too much of it, seems destined to speak louder than the woman within.

By: JAVSimson

JAVSimson — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:01:51 +0000

You may be right, but it’s a problem for women in lots of places other than the workplace too. The problem with the workplace is that we spend so much of our time there, AND we’re also stuck with having to deal with those who share that space with us.

By: Angela Turnage

Angela Turnage — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:00:48 +0000

Maybe it’s a generational thing, but I also don’t think there’s anything feminist about a woman who is barely dressed. A woman can be strong, confident, and love her body without buying into someone else’s idea of what constitutes an attractive woman. I suspect men think about sex so often because it’s a biological, evolutionary instinct, but it does get tiring, as a woman, to be primarily judged first on the way we dress and how pretty we are. I can imagine you’ve struggled more with this as a scientist than I did as an elementary school teacher.