Depends, if he's worked his ass off to be a hulk and wants to go around shirtless I usually contend he pretty much earned himself the right:)

Well, maybe, but most cases of "shirtless dude" look pretty much like this:

http://media.nowpublic.net/images//e9/8/e98a226dd5c30c1f384b0570b1e2651c.jpg

Also, being well trained ("packed") doesn't reduce the sweaty odor factor caused by the fact you wear nothing to cool off your body (and then it produces sweat). Yes, white t-shirt cools your body off more than wearing nothing at all.

I think it's not fair to blame women for getting upset for wearing something they feel comfortable in. It isn't limited to just women, though. Being judged for the way you look, or getting certain types of looks, etc. for just being who you are isn't right.

However, that being said, I also do believe context has a lot to do with it. If it's a passing glance, no harm done, after all, it should be expected when you wear revealing clothing. However, like others have mentioned, anything more than that is when things start to get creepy. In circumstances like these, I think getting angry is perfectly justifiable, but getting angry at EVERY passing glance (Talking about an innocent passing glance) is also just as silly.

It's a natural mechanism in species who live in herds.

Being surprised that you attract people attention when you dress/act/look differently than other is just being stupid. Sorry. And of course it isn't limited to women's clothing.

Well we're speaking in generalizations here, but my point is that if you're seeking attention you want it from people you find attractive, interesting or otherwise valued. I've certainly seen plenty of incidents in my time where a woman was all too happy to gather the attentions and looks of certain men but was disgusted by others doing the same thing.

It really all comes down to looks versus stares and leering, and tons of factors can turn one into the other. Attention from someone deemed undesirable can turn a brief look into an uncomfortable leer for a lot of people.

Indeed. Some people like to pretend we're "above that" as a species, but it's a ridiculous notion. The good thing is you can be valued for a lot of different things and the key is to find someone who values what you have.

Great point we all neglected.

One would say that competing with other females is to impress males indirectly.

Like we, the men, don't need any woman for goofying around and making stupid shit, but without any women nearby it has no point. :P

That would be one of the more annoying things that women do. I've experienced that first hand and quite frankly there are few things they could do that are more degrading to me than to fight with each other over my attention. Even if I was interested in one or the other there's no way in hell that I'm going to go along with being treated like some sort of prize.

At least arguably, it has not even an indirect connection to impressing men; it's between women, and it's what an ethologist would call a dominance display. For example: Liz Jones, "Carol Vorderman and the ugly truth about competitive dressing", with pictures of just what I'm talking about.

Crap publication, interesting article. Somehow that bothers me a lot less than the notion of women dressing up for men, even if it does bring up troubling alternatives.

Yeah, Liz Jones is a good enough writer on fashion and women's issues to be entertainingly controversial; it's a shame she has to write for such egregious wastes of newsprint and ink, but every good British writer suffers from the same handicap.

Many men, online and off, sure do spend a awful lot of time telling people what "women" think. It is interesting that none of these men are women, so where the insight originates is a mystery, but these pontifications on the inner workings of the female mind are quite common. That isn't sexist?

In your case it didn't seem misogynist, or malicious, or vindictive, or even particularly conscious.

But it is a man making a sweepingly general, all inclusive, absolute statement about the internal thought processes of all women, in reaction to a hypothetical that is chock full of zero meaningful details about an abstract woman having a vague and potential emotion in response to an abstract (presumably a) man doing something as undefined as "looking" in some unsubscribed manner for an unspecified period of time... long story short, it was a stupid question.

I wasn't looking for sexism... I responding to the sexism that was there.

Am I calling you out? Well, I wasn't... I was merely saying men can be guilty too. And I'm really not calling you out now. I'm not better than you. I'm not less sexist. We are human. We are all guilty from time to time of -isms... and because we are such narcissistic animals, we are rarely actually aware of it.
The female in the OPs scenario is a abstract who is engaged in no action whatsoever, and is only attributed with a description of clothing that is at best... incomplete. I fail to see how she can possibly be rude.

And being in public doesn't mean you are required to be the victim of someone else's rudeness. Sure, I am not required to be polite, and I can leer suggestively at your wife's fine tits... but I think you'd agree that we should be living in a world with consequences, and I fail to see how your wife lacks the right kick me in the sack. :-)

I'll be sure to tell all my college professors that my sociology and psychology education only applied to men. Sure limits the usefulness of my degrees! Oh well.

Piss off, asshat. You're the worst kind of wannabe white knight.

You know what... fine... I don't fucking care that much.

You aren't a stupid person and you goddamn well know that human beings frequently say things without really hearing how they sound to others. I took the same classes.

When men pretend to have some insight into women, it's usually wrong. The reverse is almost always wrong as well. Sexism, racism, whatever-ism is pervasive throughout every level of our society and in all of us at some level... and that's what I was saying.

But I guess with all your education, the best you can counter with is calling me an asshat.