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I don't really think about it, but as a measure of protection from unwanted attention, I guess I don't show it at work generally.
If it's too obvious then clearly the woman is wanting some form of attention because as has been said in this thread, it's kind of inevitable.
The only time I am more likely to show a little more leg, arm, cleavage whatever, is on opening nights at the gallery (because I dress up a little), or in summer when the heat is impossible. Otherwise I am pretty covered up.
Just wearing a skirt to work is enough to get me unwanted attention from co-workers and even clients. Men in Portugal are not bashful about looking and complimenting.
Just want to add that sometimes it's nice to feel feminine, even when we know it might get unwanted attention too.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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