One thing.
It's not possible to assert a specific incident or outfit as being more inherently "sexual" or "provocative" than any other.
Women have been saying for DECADES that simply existing in public and wearing ANYTHING short of a burka has been considered "provocative". At work or simply anywhere in public view. If a man's watching, it's almost certain she's being objectified.
There was a time when it was considered risque to show one's ankles.
Pretty sure women have ankles still.
Women have all the "parts". And?
The only thing that's changed is how MEN view women, specifically how men objectify women.
If a woman is naked in the forest and there's no man to see her, is she still being provocative? If not, then it follows that it's the presence and perspective if the man that creates the provocation, not the state of dress of the woman.
Moreover, why does a woman's sexuality have to be a function of "giving a man a boner".
Why can't a woman embrace her sexuality because SHE wants to do that without any consideration for ANYTHING that any man might think? If a lesbian is embracing her sexuality, it's for dang sure she's not trying to provoke anything in a man. Why is that different for straight women?
It's not that some women don't trade in that any more than some men trade on their looks or wealth or whatever. Some people see any attribute as a basis for exchange in a transactional relationship (see the 20-year-old with the 80-year-old geriatric).
But to inherently suspect or judge that women engaged in an activity are doing so expressly and solely because of how it affects men only perpetuates the objectification and subjugation of women.
As long as anyone equates certain activities or certain outfits with a woman's vulnerability, believability or acceptability, we're not gonna make much progress. That's the kind of thinking that leads to that dark place where people equate what a woman wears to "she's asking for it"... because she wore something...because she's a cheerleader...because...she's a woman being a woman, essentially.
And just like now, we see the notion of a woman being called wanton because she showed her ankles...outdated.
We'll see in the not too distant future that judging a woman by what she wears or her activity will be just as outdated.
