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» dreamworks - Panties

Great article, Regina!! Your essay relates such an important message about our bodies, women's in particular. If women truly want to be free of our sexual objectification in society, we, too, must take responsibility for allowing ourselves to be so swayed by its pressure to be "sexy".

I, myself, am a Hanes girl. They're not sexy; they're not skimpy; they're comfortable. Often, I don't wear panties at all. I sleep in the nude and love the feeling of removing my bra and panties at night. It is so liberating to be without the clingy constraints on my skin, my mind.

I've often heard it said that if you are wearing pretty lingerie under your clothes, you will feel pretty on the outside. Using the same logic, then, does it not stand to reason that if you aren't wearing any lingerie at all, free of them (so to speak), shouldn't you feel free on the outside as well?

I'd like to think so.

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» pentimento - Re: Panties

In response to message posted by dreamworks:

I hear ya on the freedom thing. I remember my grandmother squeezing into a girdle and just being angry, not at her, but at the injustice of it all.. that women have to bind themselves and cut off their breathing, and for what? And yet even the sports bra I wear when I jog feels horrifically constraining after about 30 minutes. Fortuantely I seldom jog more than 5 miles.

regina

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» cswitwer - Excellent

An excellent and much needed article, Regina! It's great to see you tackling subject that most people don't want to think about! Thanks a lot!

I'll be sending a few of my friends to your site to check this article out!

Best,
chris

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» pentimento - Re: Excellent

In response to message posted by cswitwer:

Thanks. That was what I had hoped to achieve. Thanks for the referals.

regina

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» Olivia32 - Panties as a symbol

Wow! Great article! Panties as a symbol of a "rape culture"... I wish I'd thought of it first.

Do we all belong to and promote such a culture? From the bondage aspect of lingerie generally, to the glass ceiling of corporate structure (or is it stricture?), I'd say "hell, yes"...

Your article provokes a person like myself to mentally inquire: do I wear panties as a way of identifying in a most basic external manner with a part of society with which I feel kinship, or as a way of setting myself apart from a part of society for which I feel not some little fear and loathing? The mental jury is still out on that one...

One thing I have learned, though, is that when one is wearing a dress, one damn well better be conscious of one's surroundings, lest trouble ensue. Sad, but very true...

By the way, is there a single word depicting "the fear and hatred of men and all things masculine"? If not, why not?

And if not, isn't it time there was...

Olivia

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» pentimento - Re: Panties as a symbol

In response to message posted by Olivia32:

Yes! I didn't even really think about the whole link much consciously -- except the grumbling I did at the sight of lingerie catalogues -- until I was writing this. Funny what having someone, probably male, go through your panty drawer will do to you.

And no, I don't believe there is a word to depict fear and hatred of all things masculine. And stopping to thing about it, there is a part of me that wishes there were.. sort of vengence.. But there is another part of me that has had enough fear and hatred. And I have been watching documentaries on the sociology and biology of sex and am pretty much at a place where what I'd like even more is an acceptance of the masculinity and the feminity, the yin and the yang, so to speak, within us all. It's much more difficult to kill or maim someone if we think of them as just like us. If men (and the occasional woman) could accept their own weakness, their own creativity, their own vulnerability, perhaps they wouldn't work so hard ot kill those things in others.

And then I come back to the planet earth where a huge population of Muslims is rejoycing the 6,000 or so lives killed in the terrorist attacks and a huge population of Americans, Europeans, etc are all but salivating at the prospect of wiping out a group of individuals. And even for folks in the middle, there are no easy answers. I don't even know if there are any answers.

Thanks for sparking my brain cells again!

Regina Sewell
CE Women's Issues
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/gend...

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» grandmacotton - granny panties

I do have 'em. Made from cotton, are indeed comfy and looks extra yucky. I still have to use some colored bleach solution on them. But I do keep them as clean as possible. Really. Little secrets like these, well, shocks the vanity out of my mother. She's the kind of girl who always wants nice and pretty things around her. Probably can't believe that her daughter keeps a ghastly pair of those. Anyway, disgusting as this sounds, I'm not getting rid of them. At least not just yet.

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