Eve Ensler’s poem My Short Skirt reads "my short skirt is not an invitation, a provocation, an indication, that
I want it, or give it…
Rhodes students, men and women, donned their short skirts this week in defiance of the cold weather and in celebration of freedom.
Eve Ensler’s poem My Short Skirt reads "my short skirt is not an invitation, a provocation, an indication, that
I want it, or give it…
Rhodes students, men and women, donned their short skirts this week in defiance of the cold weather and in celebration of freedom.
Many things make a women pause before she puts on her short skirt. What women might think. What men might think.
What some men have been known to do with the provocation of some exposed thigh. The problem is, some exposed thigh can be quite nice.
Cool on a summer’s day and nice to look at too. So, should we regard the thigh, knee, calf and ankle as strictly political and totally asexual for one week a year?
Should men and women who catch themselves admiring thighs during Anti Sex Crimes Week feel guilty, or be regarded as one of ‘the enemy?
How do you look without leering? Or compliment without creeping-out? Is it even politically correct to notice someone’s body these days?
Nice earlobes. You bodyist! Disgusting! But surely it’s impossible to stop looking. Perhaps the idea is that, because we are arguably just souls, personalities, processing units in fleshy covers, the body should be irrelevant.
Can you walk down the street looking at people and disregard the bodies they inhabit? It seems impossible. There seems to be no answers and no rules, so, we suppose, “my short skirt, believe it or not, has nothing to do with you” will have to be the conclusion.
