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Originally Posted by pandafaye
"Exploited" women don't necessarily choose the way they dress in the same way that one would choose what kind of toothpaste to use. There is no total freedom. No matter what anyone says, culture and society are very powerful and pervasive. It is a mistake to brush off the problems of socially created problems like dress expectation and anorexia because those women are "choosing". Whether or not they are actually being forced to try to achieve the beauty standard put forward to them by our society in legal ways matters not; they feel the pressure and respond. It's coersion, not free choice.
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i don't want to threadjack, so this'll be my last comment along this line of discussion... but the fact that many people cede their personal choice to align with a group's preference doesn't mean it wasn't theirs to begin with. there are segments of Western society who choose not to conform to society's norms in female dress: pentecostals, radical feminists, muslims, amish, goths. those groups are afforded a choice that is not given to all peoples on earth, especially not in illilberal societies. that Western society doesn't allow
total freedom is not grounds to dismiss the fundamental differences between it and illiberal culture.