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android wrote:It's demeaning to the girls and insulting to boys.

In other countries, women must cover themselves from head to toe in black because "men can't control themselves".

In the summer in Austin, I see scantily clad women on a daily basis. I can guarantee you it has not provoked me to break the law. If it did, that would be my fault, not theirs.

You ought to come out here! The weather promotes it, the culture celebrates it! As Will Rogers said, "I never expected to see young girls getting sunburned in the places they are today." We even have a nude beach, ostensibly illegal but whose looking?

One of the unmistakable developments in our culture in my lifetime is how compulsion now rules the world of work, hours, breaks, lunch hours, right to work, duties, discrimination against every conceivable characteristic, the consequent rise of the HR department that rules over every other consideration, and how in other aspects of our lives, we are freer than ever to act, speak, dress and carry on in the most vulgar, demeaning, outlandish, rude and even filthy ways we can come up with.

Almost every old man of every generation has been able to claim, with perfect sincerity and accuracy, that the young people are uncivilized, uncouth, rude, lazy, filthy, and worse, and I suppose I am in that stage of life, but I can't help but say that if we had acted, dressed, talked and carried on back then like many young people do today, we would still be being beaten!

What's wrong with a dress code, a haircut code, a (pardon me!) tattoo code, a manners code?