I didn't care much when the story of reporter Inez Sainz being allegedly harassed by members of the New York Jets football team broke. It seemed sort of the typical thing, and she wasn't even the one to file the major complaint. But then, I heard people on the news saying that, because she wore tight jeans, she was asking for it.
Now, I'm not always in line with the idea of people flaunting their bodies or sexuality or whatever in public. However, I say that if a lot of women in This Modern Age dress in a...risqué manner, it's because they see these images in the media and the message is pounded home every day to girls and women that you MUST dress in a "sexy" style to be wanted or desired, hell, to be of value in this world. So that advice gets followed and then something happens on that sliding scale of female objectification and somehow, because the girl or woman was wearing tight clothes, or a short skirt, or a low-cut top, she was asking for the whistles, the cat-calls, the ogling, the groping, or, sometimes, the rape.
I'll leave you with this song by the band Goodbye Mr. MacKenzie which essentially restates the whole thing because EVERYTHING is better in song form.
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