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If it's just a look then I don't see any justification for getting angry. People should wear what they're comfortable wearing. By comfortable I'm including how people react to what they're wearing.
Hey, didn't this topic come up earlier? I'm getting a dejavu... Weird...

Anyway, if women reveal themselves in public and think they're not going to be looked at, they're pretty dumb. If they want to reveal themselves only to certain people, they should make it private.

If I was going topless in public, I'd expect EVERYONE to laugh at how stupid I look. If I don't want everyone to laugh at how stupid I look, I'd wear a freaking shirt. That's not hard to understand.

1) If you're extraordinarily fat, people will look at you.
2) If you're extraordinarily skeletal, people will look at you.
3) If you're extraordinarily ugly, people will look at you.
4) If you're extraordinarily hot, people will look at you.
5) If you're extraordinarily short, people will look at you.
6) If you're extraordinarily tall, people will look at you.
7) If you're extraordinarily heavily clothed, people will look at you.
8) If you're extraordinarily scantly clothed, people will look at you.

DUH!!!
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Adzeth: I'm not actually sure if "revealing clothing" is a term that means a very specific kind of thing, but if it's just "clothing that is revealing", then the whole revealing part might be an undesired attribute. For example, when it's really hot outside, I may do outside chores without a shirt or with some really thin shirt. I don't do it to show everyone my still-and-forever-acne-infested torso. :p
Not a very good example because going without a shirt is not "wearing revealing clothing".. because you are not wearing any clothing to be revealing with :P

Besides, if being revealing was undesired, you'd chose the thin shirt rather than going without. Undesired is not the same as neutral.
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Adzeth: I'd say this statement is way too broad.
<rimshot>
Well, it is possible to be very attractive without dressing in a revealing manner. Especially if you aren't really into the half-dressed-skeletons-with-airbags look. (Gawd, I don't even know why, but I find a turtleneck sweater on a plump young woman to be one of the most appealing combinations on EARTH). (Sorry, I don't mean to offend any slender yet buxom women, it's the stereotype I object to.) (Hmm, I had two parenthetical statements in a row, and now three!).

At any rate, a lady can be sexy and attractive without being promiscuous. If a girl is showing off as much as possible, men are hardwired to "check out the goods," as it were. Even the polite ones are going to steal a glance because they can't help it (unless they're gay, I suppose, in which case they wouldn't find it appealing). I think a bigger problem is that a lot of young ladies think that on the attractiveness scale, fewer clothes trump more flattering clothes every time, when that's simply not the case.

This whole post of mine struck me as disjointed and has too many parentheses. I apologize.
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Runehamster: This whole post of mine struck me as disjointed and has too many parentheses. I apologize.
You lost me at "a turtleneck sweater on a plump young woman". Mind completely drifted away.
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grviper: You lost me at "a turtleneck sweater on a plump young woman". Mind completely drifted away.
Hehe, yeah... *sigh*
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xyem: Not a very good example because going without a shirt is not "wearing revealing clothing".. because you are not wearing any clothing to be revealing with :P

Besides, if being revealing was undesired, you'd chose the thin shirt rather than going without. Undesired is not the same as neutral.
I figured that having nothing but pants on would count as revealing clothing, and I've seen shirts that are practically see-through (and meant shirts like that with the really thin). I'll admit that it's not a very good example, but I just can't get into the mindset where you'd put on clothes with big extra hole space on 'em for fashion or whatever :p

I consider making my shirt smelly even more undesirable than shooting nipple lasers at people. It's all about that whole weighing pros and cons thing.

...but I'm talking about special cases. If I walked into my University in a thong and got angry at people who looked at me, I'd consider myself quite insane. Also, if it's getting angry about a glance, then it's silly in any case. It's sort of like talking with someone, suddenly turning your head to look right, and then getting angry that they turned their head to look there as well.
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graniteoctopus: "If a woman wears a revealing outfit in public, she has no right to be angry if a man looks at her"
I would have to know your precise definition of the word "right" to give an answer we both fully understand, but I'll answer anyway. First, anyone has the "right" to be mad about anything. Second, if a woman wears a revealing outfit in public, then she should not be surprised if a man looks at her longer than he would have otherwise, due to the increased sexual appeal of the outfit. Third, if a man does look at the woman longer due to the revealing outfit, is it wrong for the woman to be upset or angry in any way at all about this? The answer is that it isn't right or wrong, because it doesn't matter if someone gets upset or angry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E
A hot women doesn't need to be wearing revealing clothing to be looked at. She'll be looked at anyway because she's so hot.
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Adzeth: ...and I know this might sound crazy, but a lady wearing revealing clothing might be wearing 'em without intending to wear clothing that is revealing. Like some crazy vegetarians wear hunting clothes because they're amazing and appropriate for the weather or stuff. :p
It's certainly possible in certain situations, but I think overall if a girl is wearing sausage-casing jeans it's to make her ass look good. If she's revealing stuff in a classroom or at a club it's surely to attract attention.

I think more than the heat of summer you might say they are motivated by being "in style." For example if its hot you want to wear shorts, but why do they have to be short shorts that go right up to your ass? Probably because that's what's cool right now, what's "hip" as the kids say. So you might not be motivated by exhibitionism necessarily, but by conformity.

Even then though, the fact you chose to conform to a sexy archetype means you can't complain when people look at you as sex object (within reason). Same thing for people who do sex acts for attention or acceptance and then complain when they are treated like sex objects, you put yourself there.

Really it all comes down to social mechanics and weak people desperate for attention and acceptance, but then they don't like some of the attention they receive because of perceived value principles from competing influences (i.e. parents, moral leaders).
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StingingVelvet: The problem is they want certain men to look at them and get pissy when the wrong ones do, because they want to live in perfect worlds.
Trust me, that's not true. They do want certain men looking at them, but they get pissy regardless of who looks. As somebody with synaesthesia I get in all manner of trouble because of that. They'll deliberately move into my line of sight and get all pissed off that I'm continuing to stare off into space.
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Adzeth: snip
Men not wearing shirts and being sweaty in buses, queues etc should be executed. Publically.

Unless it's miami or other city near coast with hot weather.
Post edited January 02, 2012 by keeveek
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orcishgamer: You're making an assumption that one needs a justifiable reason to be angry and that someone needs permission to look at someone else in public. Neither are true. Someone can get mad for the lamest reason you could think, it's their choice, but it's not "your" problem, it's theirs. Likewise, it's rather irrelevant what someone's wearing people will look at them for any number of reasons, not the least of which will often be sexual attraction. But hell, they might have reminded them of someone they knew back home.

If someone got mad at me for looking at them I guess I'd probably just say something smartass like, "I guess you have an attitude problem you need to work on then, huh?"
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zomgieee: They probably just havn't had an orc staring at them before. Green skin does that to some people...


Of course, if you explain the mad bonus's you get to Strength and Constitution I'm sure they will warm to you..
Yeah, that's true, without that Str bonus I'd never be able to swing around that battle axe I carry around with me:)
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HoneyBakedHam: Now, replace "look" with oggle, leer, stare, peer, or any other description of a rude behavior that might make a reasonable person uncomfortable... and I'd then say we have something to talk about.
Not really, they're in public, end of story. Good manners are nice but not required. The female in the OP's scenario also lacked good manners, imo.
Post edited January 02, 2012 by orcishgamer
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Runehamster: Well, it is possible to be very attractive without dressing in a revealing manner. Especially if you aren't really into the half-dressed-skeletons-with-airbags look. (Gawd, I don't even know why, but I find a turtleneck sweater on a plump young woman to be one of the most appealing combinations on EARTH).
AWW YEA, BOI!!

erm...I guess it's too late to say "pics or it didn't happen" :3
Post edited January 02, 2012 by jefequeso