Caroline’s original post at Uncool and Amber Rhea’s excellent post today have me thinking about desire, sexuality, the body, and of course power dynamics. (read ‘em, because I’ll be referring to them a lot.)
Well, more so than I already do.
Because, as Amber noted, images of women who are scantily clad are almost always perceived as sexual. Women’s skin on display equals sex, or the offer of sex, as was discussed over at Uncool. It is never perceived as something that THEY want. Clothing that we choose to wear is assumed to be because of men, the decision to dance, to even walk down the street alone in less than completely covering garb is inviting the gaze. (Possibly NSFW below, just so’s you know.) » Read the rest of this entry «