Originally posted by: BB10
My god, the opinions on her dress have really spiraled into an overstretched heated debate.
Why is it not okay sometimes to just comment on the thread and move on? Like this over analysis for a dress is absurd. The comments I saw on other SM were bad like WAY worse and undignified than what I read on here.
Okay, firstly the word "inappropriate" does not automatically mean- ew cleavage, ugh too much leg show, liberal feministic PC, how dare she!
The connotation here is- event appropriate. A dress code. Something formal, and modest.
Secondly finding one dress event inappropriate does not mean it can be reduced to- ugh regressive thinking, ugh so conservative, erm her body her choice man! what a world do we live in, so backward, so anti-modern, anti-feministic. One can find a particular dress not to their liking situationally. They can like the same dress otherwise. No one is selectively regressive because they are not regressive in the first place.
Thirdly a dress does not automatically mean- characterless, anti sanskars, bad upbringing. I just find it to be a blatant disregard for things/situations.
Event inappropriate ain't limited to women. Yo who are these men who enter temples wearing shorts? I say don't let them enter until they are properly dressed, IDC if they are an atheist, they should have regard for other people's faith and dress appropriately.
Baba Ramdev was covered from head to toe on a reality show recently, only when he proceeded to perform yoga he removed his wrap, and it wasn't a pretty sight.
Yes, it is our body, our choice, but it isn't too much for anyone to make the effort to dress event appropriate when required, that 'adjustment' legit doesn't make anyone less modern, a fake feminist. Only pseudo liberals consider even slight adjustment as WAY TOO MUCH TO ASK, cus #equality #21stcentury bhai.
Fourthly, criticizing a dress while meeting a dignitary isn't limited to India, yes shocking right? Whaaa how can our liberal, forward west fall prey to such backward thinking, that's only limited to India na. Pfft. Michele Obama was criticized for her dress when she came back from vacation, and numerous occassions for bare arms etc. Obama has been equally criticized for his poor choice of clothes at times. Bieber was criticized for wearing lazy, casual shorts to his concert in India.
Kate M was criticized for her Marilyn Monroe dress when she visited India. All examples an eccletic mix of event inappropriate, and obvious discomfort and accidents in the said attires.
Personal experience: I visited a gurudwara once and my head wasn't covered (don't ask why), I was young and super embarrassed because I was reprimanded heavily for it. Esp relatives jumping the gun and throwing the- ugh so western so american no values- card.
A friend wore an off shoulder dress w/o a jacket during a diplomatic school meet with the Mayor, and we had to frantically arrange a jacket because she wasn't allowed to attend it without conforming to the dress code.
During an internship, we had a proper dress code, pants, full sleeved shirts, the works basically and it was for everyone including the americans, what a shocker right...? *gasps* -_-
And if some people are suggesting that decorum in the form of dress code should be done away with then yeah let's have casual dressing at hospitals, courts, at the UN HQ, at wakes, funerals...heck decorum in the form of traffic rules, conduct in public places should also be done away with cause omg our right, how dare anyone tell us what to do, how to behave. Let's just follow our rules culminating into a mad frenzy cus hashtag liberalism, hashtag modernism.
absurd argument? yeah this is what happens when something can't end at "hey summery dress, not formal, not appropriate" and "hey but I don't see anything wrong in it, seems appropriate enough".
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