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Pearl Croxton, another staff assistant in the Office of Fiscal Services, also questioned the newly-articulated policy. "If shoulders and backs can be exposed with halter tops, why not knees?" she asked, but added that if the matter were up to the discretion of the supervisor, she "would have to accept...
While Cantor said there is a "very blurry line" between men's shorts and women's attire such as halter tops, he said no rigid policy exists and his office only intercedes if the situation "is abused or abusive...
Finally, both porn and rape are based on a view that women are there for the taking, available to be possessed, "asking for it." A rapist may claim that he attacked a woman because she "asked for it"...by wearing tight jeans, a halter top, even going braless. Only when women are perceived as purely sexual creatures can their individual will be so ignored, and can the victim be blamed for the acts of the aggressor...
...exceptions, the 78° decree started a wave of more casual dress. Men were discarding suit jackets (the equivalent of reducing their workspace temperature by 3°), loosening or shedding ties (saving another 1°) and wearing short-sleeved shirts. Women in offices were turning to halter tops, looser fitting clothes and thinner fabrics...
...only was the price of strawberries and cream up sharply, from $1.20 to $1.65, but a glass of champagne cost $3.30, a dollar more than last year. To top it all off, an unseeded but well-endowed Californian named Linda Siegel, 18, momentarily popped out of her daring, halter-neck tennis dress in mid-stroke during a losing engagement with Billie Jean King. GAME, SET ... OUT! chortled a Fleet Street headline...