...That's bull. You or the other poster have made no points. The fact of the matter is, I would be more concerned about why my daughter is out at 3 AM rather than that she is wearing a skirt.
So . . . are you suggesting that women should dress like men from now on? Or maybe in a burka to be safe? What in the hell is it that you're suggesting here? You want to accuse others of being cowardly while you cannot even come out and say what you really mean?
Oh, fer Crissakes, you nit-pickers simply don't have the intellectual courage to give a straightforward answer to a straightforward question, because it would reinforce the Opposing Argument pertaining to modes of dress, so, rather than participating in the honest and objective assessment of test-cases, you pick nits, and try to weasel out of answering.
Where I come from, that classifies as Intellectual Cowardice.
I have no frigging agenda, in this narrow context, and, in my earliest on this thread, I even conceded the probably accuracy of related studies, but questioned the findings on the basis of common sense. You can navigate back in this series to verify that I took that approach, but, in the long run, it's of little consequence.
What some of you lunk-heads - who are so nit-picky that you can't see the forest for the trees - fail to understand is that you're being served-up a test case, to objectively analyze the merits of one mode of dress vs. another, regardless of the background-story... just assume that the Subject is in-place in the scenario... doesn't matter one good goddamn WHY...
Get it?
Now, if you're done screwing-around with juvenile pissing and moaning about conditions, let me restate the Test Case for you, from memory...
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TEST CASE:
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a. your daughter is currently on-location at some place or another in the city, where she has two sets of clothes to choose from
b. it is 3:00 AM, and she is obliged to walk from her current location to another, alone, on an average city street (some lighting, pretty-much deserted at that time of night)
Which mode of dress would you advise your daughter to wear?
1. the provocative clothing
2. the modest clothing
In other words, which of those two modes of dress is the
more likely to result in her completing her walk down the street, unmolested?
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It doesn't matter one goddamn
what she's doing there.
It doesn't matter one goddamn
why she's going out-and-about at 3:00 AM.
None of that shit matters.
All that matters are the conditions set forth in the Test Case; simplified to strip away all the background noise and to allow us to concentrate on the main theme.
Just answer the goddamned question.
Is your answer (1) or (2) - as itemized above?