Why girls and women expose more?

Question

When I first came face to face with the western culture I was totally wonderstruck. Almost all girls and young women in the air port were wearing about 50% or less cloths compared to men and were exposing all parts of their body except genitals and nipples (not breasts). I thought since the western culture developed in the cold regions, people will have the tendency to cover more and this was true regarding males.

Why do you find shorter shorts on girls (boys wear shorts that reach their knees) and lesser cloths on females in general in public areas in the west?

I thought men were more sexual regarding visual stimuli and exposing body parts in such a way was actually a torture towards males as they are not allowed even to show their sexual interest in the females around them in public places, let alone act on it.

Please compare how males and females wear cloths in public.

I am coming from India and I have already gone back to India and it is where I am now.

Girls and women everywhere, including in India is having this trend. But it is comparatively obvious and startling in the west. If this is about women’s expression of them selves and liberation, then why are the feminists complaining about indecent exposure in advertisements? I am totally confused. Please help

Answer 1

because some likes for guys to notice them or it makes them feel good about there selves

Answer 2

Clothing, and what people expose or do not expose, changes with the times. In the Victorian era, women wore corsets that exposed their breasts...under-breast corsets even exposed the nipples...and this was not considered to be overexposing their bodies. However, if they showed their ankles...the society was outraged.
The exposure of the body is not just a 'western' phenomenon. Look at some of the African tribes...loin cloths are common but no upper body clothing.
What people wear is cultural and may be quite shocking to people who are not of that culture, but as the old saying goes...When In Rome, Do As The Romans Do.

The long shorts on boys act in the same principle as the less clothing on the girls. Men used to wear short pants, only being privileged to wearing full length pants after some right of passage. In the 1970s-1980s, men's shorts were mid-thigh in length. Now, the shorts are back down to the knees.

It's not a huge mystery and fashion will continue to cycle through stages of what's popular and what isn't. Look at the wide-leg jeans that are in style now (being pushed out by cigarette pants as I type this) they are just reminiscent of the hippy pants of the 1960s.

Answer 3

because turtlenecks, long sleeve shirts and pants are somewhat going out of style for some women.men are rarely seen wearing short shorts.it just doesn't look right.I think it is either racier fashion trends or these women embrace their sexuality and want to show their body.some look good while others are showing way too much and look like prostitutes.if it is at the beach or night club or similar place, then it would be appropriate but it's usually not.they are insecure and prancing around needing attention and validation from strange stares of men & women to feel more desirable.

feminists always have something to complain about.it's their hobby.

Answer 4

You seem like a very sensitive person.
Unfortunately, in the western culture the media and people in general have made it seem acceptable for it to be this way. I think dressing like that makes some girls feel more confident in their appearance and makes them feel more attractive. It makes them feel like more boys will like them. And as you said, boys are visually stimulated so most of them probably have no problem with it (no offense to you good boys out there!!!). I also believe that many people are under the impression that to be considered "hot" or "sexy" you have to dress a certain way or act a certain way.

Also, some women dress that way to express their uniqueness, style, etc since they are free to do so.

EDIT to G-zilla:
No offense taken! I couldn't agree with you more. That is something I had thought about, just hadn't posted. I decided rather to tell the asker the popular views on why women dress that way. But I think what you said makes perfect sense, too.

Answer 5

im a woman, and as a woman, my sexuality is a big part of me, therefore i find no problem with showing off my body (to an extent) and i dont think women should be critised for this, if males find this stimulating sexually that is their own agenda. i live in australia, and i do spend alot of time at the beach, males wear no shirts, where females must where at least a bikini top.

Answer 6

I think too many people are influenced by much music and that while they're walking around in real life they think they are in a music video. Aside from that clothes are over ratted.

Guy's conveniently adopted the style of longer board shorts originally because of the sport but have hung on to them for dear life because they cover up a lot. What ever happened to speedos - the equivalent to the bikini. It's not a level playing field . No guts?

Answer 7

Interesting thoughts.

Actually even girls in Eastern developed countries wear less clothes. So I think it's a question of "Why do women in developed countries wear less clothes than those in undeveloped countries.

I think it may correspond to the higher levels of freedom and protection that women in developed countries have. This allows them to dress more freely, unrestricted from religious laws. In less developed countries, women have less rights and are expected to dress more conservatively.

Answer 8

That's just the way society is heading. On one hand women should have the right to dress as they please, it's none of my business, so I don't worry about anyone else.
But also guys like to look, it's unfortunately not gaining the women anymore respect.
Personally, I cover up and don't expose anything, that's just me and Australia's the skin cancer capital of the world unfortunately.

Answer 9

Just because we are able to wear clothes which express our individual sense of style does not mean we all intend to wear a revealing style of clothing. We simply do not wish to be restricted in how we choose to dress.

Answer 10

"Men [are] more sexual regarding visual stimuli.
[Women] exposing body parts...[is] torture towards males, as they are not allowed... to show their sexual interest in the females... in public places, let alone act on it."
___You raise an interesting issue, and it suggests who controls the arena of sexuality in the West. Earlier patriarchal societies in the West had customs more like the ones you're used to, because when men have prevailed long enough to define their sex roles by themselves, they eventually got around to realizing that they're better off diminishing their participation in an arena where they are at an intrinsic disadvantage. Men have more explosive sexual desires (and other felt urges) than women, and if they try to construct humane societies (in which rape is unacceptable), men will, in the aggragate, end up disempowered in highly sexualized circumstances. Men's emotional tendencies make it more difficult to play cat-and-mouse, sexually manipulative games.
___On the other hand, when men redirect their sexual and emotional energies toward building civilization, toward constructive intellectual endeavors, and abstract thinking, their explosive energies fuel innovations and confer more power on men. It is in feminism's interests, then, to keep men's minds on sex, but it's also politically advantageous to complain about it, to put men in a "damned if they do, damned if they don't" situation. Keep men sexually excited (and vulnerable to their passions), but don't let them have any sexual freedom or power.
___And it's also advantageous to deny this state of affairs, even to themselves, and to exaggerate the incidence of rape, to expand the definition of rape, and to cast themselves as categorical victims, even if they are not individually raped. But no one seems to acknowledge that the political power of the rape issue stems from the facts that the men who rape are in the minority, that the consensus among men is that rape is wrong, and that men have consciences. If men didn't condemn rape, women wouldn't have been able to turn it to their political advantage.
___This may sound like a conspiracy theory or something. It's not. When enough like-minded people share goals and pursue them together, it can look to a cynic like a conspiracy. Sort of like the way many feminists judge the ancient patriarchs to have been acting in bad faith in setting up patriarchies, instead of constructing civilization in accordance with the way that they naively saw it.
___I hate to single her out, since Dora expresses a popular view innocently and without malice:
"dressing like that makes some girls feel more confident in their appearance and makes them feel more attractive.... boys are visually stimulated so most of them probably have no problem with it.... people are under the impression that to be considered 'hot' or 'sexy' you have to dress a certain way.... some women dress that way to express their uniqueness, style, etc since they are free to do so."
___These views, which are all over the culture, assume that girls and women's confidence and sense of style are of a higher priority than boys and men's sexual frustrations and the degrees of psychological brokenness that stem from spending so much time in sexual turmoil and psychic exhaustion. The society tells men that it's cool to be a stud and smooth with the chicks, and that sex is "perfectly natural". They are exposed to myths about how boys are wrongly taught to suppress their emotions and desires, ignoring both that most boys are raised and educated by women, and that there might be good reason to teach boys self-control in ways that tdon't treat them as defective for their native rambunctiousness. Boys are socialized not to doubt the current state of affairs profoundly, and not to imagine that their energy is a posivite, civilization-building force, and that self-control and redirecting of urges are the means for managing of a strong but positive force.
___I apoligize to Dora. There was nothing in her posting that indicated any malice towards males, and I hope she can take this as just something that she may not have thought about before, and not a personal criticism.