This is not nudity. It is however suggestive fashion. I began this weekly venture after I realize the "W" regime in early 2000s was really doing a number on the American idea of sexuality.
It has taken a few decades for women to appreciate their bodies and not deny them. It is needless to say when there was a march in America to return women to the doudy OLD IMAGES it scared me and brought back the nightmares of what we fought against so long ago. Our daughters were not going to be treated as sex objects.
Part of being a woman, is being sexy. It is just the way it is. As a feminist I learned that a long time ago. Feminism is not about denying the sexuality endowed to every person, man or woman, but to be sure when a woman's image is used for reasons it is used for, there is respect without victimization.
It wasn't long ago women put themselves in the public's eye to end the 'body part' porn, be it soft porn or heavy duty XXX. Today, when a model appears on the cover of "Maxim" she is referred to by her name with an expose of who she is by and a bit of a biography. That is treating the image of woman with respect and COMPLETE identity. Women become victims when they are not respected for the PERSON they are; it is called depersonalization. Crimes against women are not caused by sexuality, it is caused by depersonalization.
We are the ones who burned the bar. We didn't deny our sexuality, we exposed it and made it real. The bar was a symbol of domestication of women in a way that removed their potential and a life fully enjoyed. Sex was no longer tabu. It came to the surface that women were sexually oriented to pleasure no differently then men.
The sixties was not about simply abandoning old stereotypes, it was about being whole and being happy.
