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[alexseanchai]

Dear mother:

Yeah, that last Facebook post of yours is absolutely right on the money. Because "wanting attention from men" is CLEARLY the only reason a woman would choose to dress "immodestly", and because no self-respecting "Real Man" is EVER a "pig" to someone dressed modestly, in, say, a burqa.

I'm tempted to wear my shortest shorts and a tank top to Thanksgiving dinner, for the explicit purpose of proving this point. (Nobody will be at Thanksgiving dinner whom I might wish to attract. Or whom my mother might think I might wish to attract. I suspect these of being nonoverlapping populations anyway, even though she knows damn well I'm queer.) Merely tempted, not actually going to do it, because I have no plans of freezing, but seriously tempted.

(argh.)

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[nenya_kanadka]

Reminds me of the time that my uncle banned his twelve-year-old daughter from wearing ankle jewelry on the principle that it would be a "stumbling block" (how I hate that term) to men, possibly including her older brothers.

(Myself, I have hairtriggers in about five directions on this subject, due to uberconservative religious upbringing. But mostly boils down to "you do you, and sometimes I like to look sexy, and y'know what as long as viewers of same aren't assholes to me about it I don't actually even mind if it turns 'em on" but mostly "you do you," because sweet Rassilon people are such awful fucks about the whole thing.)