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Melle: *kicks Ann Landers* dude, okay. <<I do not believe it is wise to have your teenage daughters running around nude in front of their father and adolescent brother. >> WHAT THE FUCK?
Tri: Um, you did hear that Ann Landers died, right?
Melle: My dad and brothers have seen me naked THOUSANDS of times! They're not SCARRED or anything, and neiter am I!
Melle: And yes. But I still want to kick her.

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[sonatine.livejournal.com]

*rolls eyes* Well, according to the nice people at CAP Alert (http://www.capalert.com/), I should be a left devil-worshipping feminist lesbian basketcase because my dad walked around in his underwear when I was little. Hurrah for prudish American mores. It really irritates me that my country can't get over the fact that nakedness is not necessarily sexual. I think we need more topless mags that don't have paper coverings over them so the teenage boys (and the skanky middle-aged men) will just get the fuck over themselves and realize that nudity loses its sexual connotations when you see it in places other than a porn site or a wanker mag.

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nudity loses its sexual connotations when you see it in places other than a porn site or a wanker mag

I think that's a very true thing, that. I mean, I've grown up in an environment where being naked was just a matter of practicality. I don't understand how anyone can manage to lock bathroom doors when there's four other people in the house. I mean, if we'd have done that, we'd never have managed to get to work&school in time. To me, being naked just means I can't be arsed with clothes, because it's too hot or whatever.

And you know, statements like AL's imply, to me, not only that any guy is going to turn into an incestuous animal because his daughter or sister is walking around naked, but also that if girls get molested, it's their own fault for letting their fathers/brothers see them naked, and that's just. Wrong. You know? I mean, I can objectively say that my oldest brother is a damn fine specimen of the male species, but he's still my brother, and I can't imagine actually seeing him as anything more than that, anything sexual, you know what I mean?