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Aug 3, 2004 Today I saw a girl who dressed like Christina Aguilera. I suppose that's quite common these days- "hot" seems to be synonymous with "naked." Here's my problem: the girl was eight. Eight! No eight-year-old should be wearing micro-mini skirts and midriff bearing tube-tops! The way we dress casually later in life is influenced by the way we're dressed when we're kids. My mother always dressed me in half to long sleeved shirts and pants no shorter than mid-calf length. The only occasion on which I wore a skirt was to school and even then, it went past my knees! Call me conservative, but now that I do pick my own clothes? I wear things that cover me. I suppose girls think that guys think that skin is attractive. Let me clear that up- it's not GUYS who find it attractive, it's PERVERTS. A guy in my high school once remarked that he "didn't see the point in girls complaining about guys who just wanted them for what they looked like when all they did was give the guy something to want." Translation: in leaving nothing to the imagination, girls are their own undoing purely because they dress skimpily. Why should you complain about your boyfriend that never wants to talk when the words "LOOK AT MY CLEAVAGE" is tattooed across your bare chest? It's your own fault. Girls who know better than to go out wearing more than underwear? Good on you. You are more comfortable and probably get less rashes and insect-bites. Girls who flaunt their body just to get guys are usually called three general names, only two of which are appropriate for me to say. One is desperate, and the second is stupid. Given there are probably highly intelligent women who wear less than lingerie models, the average of the rest of these girls seems to be about two. To the intelligent, yet barely clothed, I offer an apology: the stereotype has already been set. Even in tropical Singapore where most people wear shorts and tank tops to beat away the heat, people classify total strangers as "loose" if the clothes they wear are inappropriate. Shorts and tee shirt? Perfectly fine. Booty shorts and a low- cut, see through spaghetti strap? G-r-o-s-s. Someone of my acquaintance pointed out to me that the things I rant and rave about are very trite topics. Well, if they are, it means that there are more people like me who think that teens shouldn't be thinking about getting married at fifteen or girls shouldn't have to bare their bodies to attract attention. The very people that teenagers and children should look up to have been replaced by half-naked pop sensations. Although I too fall in the category of idolizing musicians, I idolize ones who inspire me to think instead of inspire me to go and buy me a set of under clothes. However, girls aren't the only ones targeted by the shallow masses. Guys are encouraged to go work out to get themselves muscular arms, six- packs, and great tans. If they can't manage that, then they can go get a band. Make themselves "hot" by other means. What is the world coming to when the younger generations depend on flaunting so-called attractive bodies just to attract themselves a partner? That is just plain sick. ------------ About the author Ambreen Momin: Want to read more of her work? Visit www.fictionpress.com/~inzaniti or email: stardust_inc786@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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