There was a discussion over a podcast recently. Ladies from the world over were calling in to relate their experiences with jogging around their neighbourhood. Callers from Asia and Africa invariably complained that it was a great challenge. They had to endure all the stares, heckling, uncouth remarks and the visual undressing to complete their feat. The discussion hovered on about overcoming this hurdle. Unfortunately, it looks like the mindset of the people of that need to be changed, not the activity. Back home, I was indulged in a solemn discussion with a bevy of young lassies regarding how their way of dressing would be determined by other people's expectations or rules. Invariably all of them, the selection group being from the educated urban young adult ladies, agreed that it is their prerogative how they should dress. They quoted the weather, the milieu of the intended occasion, appropriateness to their own judgement and, of course, fashion sense. They reiterated that...
It is all Mimesis