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...let’s just be happy that there’s no moral quandary this weekend. Let’s be happy we can wear obscene t-shirts and scream “scoreboard” and chant “Yale sucks” without any twinges of inner conflict...
Back in the audience before the film starts, there’s a debate whether a post-makeover Campbell, who works the overnight shift at a chain hotel in Newton, can wear her current outfit of pink crushed-velvet turtleneck and black miniskirt to work tonight. “My manager is okay with my cross-dressing, but I’d probably have to wear a regulation white blouse,” Campbell reflects...
...theme parties: Liquor Treats (an alcoholic rendition of Trick or Treating taking students from college to college), Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges’ Casino Night and Jonathan Edwards College’s Spider Ball. Exotic Erotic, a theme party boasting the motto, “the less you wear, the less you pay,” and Inferno, a sizzling Halloween costume party, were both recently canceled by the masters of Timothy Dwight College and Pierson College, respectively, because they got too hot to handle...
When I was in Egypt over the summer I was largely denied the peepshow that is American culture. Many women choose to wear conservative dress and the hijab, denying us men the pleasure of the “check out.” This is another form of empowerment: in stripping men of the ammo we require to objectify them, women grant for themselves the same public freedom that men enjoy—the freedom from harassment and disrespect. It is the difference between dressing for men and dressing in spite...
...saying that Western dress is a form of slavery to men. It, too, is a type of freedom, but it is not the only type. It is great that women in America have the freedom to wear whatever they want, and this is a freedom they should cherish. Because of that freedom, however, women often become victims of our immature, insulting and juvenile minds...