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No. 68083
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>It really isn't. I would agree that it might be a form of expression, but by no means is it important.
That may be your opinion, I wasn't really talking about rights that should be protected by the government, but I think diversity of dress, like diversity of hairstyle and other aspects are important parts of personal expression. Without that freedom, everyone is forced to conform into a Middle Eastern or Japanese style mold. I once knew a Japanese girl whose hair was slightly lighter/more brunette than normal- still mostly black, but enough to stand out in a crowd. She was told by her teacher that she had to dye it black like everyone else, otherwise she might stand out as a show-off or even a slut. For having brown-tinted hair.
I don't like to employ the slippery slope too often (like extreme conservatives who employ it in literally every situation), but it doesn't seem like it would take much to follow the logic from "women shouldn't show cleavage in public" to higher and higher arbitrary standards. Why is that chick wearing red? Those are total fuck me attention whore clothes, she's such a bitch, etc etc.
> Like I said: "It's putting strangers into an intimate situation whether they want it or not". They might feel like you're pressuring them to get naked when they don't want to. Just because you like to go naked doesn't mean everyone else likes when you go naked.
Why is it entirely about what THEY have to do to accommodate you? This is what I'm talking about. Liberty is a two-way street, if people are free to wear what they want, you are perfectly free to not associate with them. In situations where people typically do have to associate with one another, like workplaces, schools, public establishments like restaurants, those places should be able to establish dress codes, just as they can establish rules for behavior.
>Ah, so men should then also be able to say "Hey, I'd like to fuck you." without getting a gaggle of shrieking harpies after him?
How is that even relevant? First of all, it's perfectly legal to say that, it only becomes harassment if you say it repeatedly after someone has asked you to stop, though if you are at a bar for example they are free to throw you out if you cause a ruckus. Same if you keep yelling "honky APES CHUCK OBAMA SPEARS" during an NAACP convention. Freedom of speech is not freedom to be heard, nor does it mean you can say anything to anyone in any context. What does this have to do with what people should wear in public? Who knows. All I was saying is that people should be able to wear what makes them feel comfortable, in my ideal world this might include nudity, but the fact is that clothes do exist for a reason and nudity is rather impractical in modern society, and even then few people willingly participate in it. Most people have no problem with clothes, at that point it's just a function of comfort, usefulness, and contextual factors (like dressing professionally at work and formally at weddings).
People have a tendency to read too much into it, that if someone is wearing something in a certain way they're trying to express or even invite things. It's just a clothes, any meaning you attach to an article of clothing is ultimately arbitrary.
Personally, I love the diversity of humans, it's what makes shit so interesting, and any effort or attempt to enforce conformity or sameness to some arbitrary ideal that seems to change rather frequently I tend to oppose.
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