BellaOnline Forums Beauty and Self Creativity How should I respond? Sensitive Issue.

I agree about the dress codes. Boys and girls should both wear appropriate clothing to school, and schools should define that sensibly. Often the code seems to be all about covering up the girls - well beyond what is appropriate - and ignoring what the boys are wearing. But that is a separate issue to the one of choice of clothing giving carte blanche to predators. Which is, in my view, NOT EVER acceptable.

WHOA! Shame on those women! I don't care if I'm standing around stark naked in a dark alley -- RAPE is NEVER deserved!

Nancy,

I'm with you 100%. Those that do such a thing deserve that treatment and more.

Oh Yikes Jana, what they said is just so wrong! You have every right to be upset with them.

I think their judgments say more about themselves than anything else. The women I know who are really judgmental of the way young women dress tend to lack any feelings of comfort and acceptance of their own body.

I'm sorry to hear that happened. It sounds like it was really difficult to have to be around them.

Yep. It still is sometimes. It just blew me away that they could say such things. I'll never understand that.