Mallory Mosner
2 min readJul 22, 2024

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Wow that's what you took from what I wrote? Are you ESL? I'm trying to understand why someone on an essay platform who is engaging in dialogue would reduce the attempted explanation of a complex topic to "a very long explanation of why women should keep themselves less than they wish..." which is very clearly NOT what I was saying.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are probably a Scandinavian or other person who is indeed ESL, but please let it be known that if you're allergic to "very long explanations" then there are plenty of wonderful platforms with pretty pictures or one-liners where one may feel more at home engaging with ideas more primitively :)

Otherwise, if I haven't already driven you away, let me simplify:

EVERYONE must control themselves in a society. What I was suggesting is that any given society is made up of lots of symbolism, human urges, and the civilized need for order, which is an ambiguous concept and a balance that we are always trying to strike.

Men must control their desires or urges to expose their genitals and butts just as much as women. It is equally inappropriate for a man to go shirtless into a Starbucks as it is for a woman to show her breasts. We have norms, and that is not bad.

If someone has positive intentions (liberating and celebrating bodies and sexuality) and wants to wear a t-shirt with extremely graphic pornography on it, why is that not a problem? It is a problem, because Western society does not have a laissez-faire approach to nudity/sexuality and overtly sexual imagery.

Accommodating the "comfort of others" is not a bad thing in society. Men and boys also have to do that. We all have to do that, it's part of being civilized.

If any given girl or woman would like to reject the norms of contemporary society and civilization, I don't think there's anything wrong with going naked into the wilderness. And yet, any given girl or woman likely wouldn't embellish their bodies with the delicate details of bellybutton rings, long fake nails, face full of thick makeup, tight cleavage-bearing shirts and diaper denim shorts out in the wild, because the full purpose of making themselves up like that IS to make other people uncomfortable--specifically by eliciting sexual responses (whether of desire or envy).

Feel free to copy and paste into Google Translate so you can better understand what I'm saying :) then again, I understand if two sentences is your cognitive capacity <3

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Mallory Mosner
Mallory Mosner

Written by Mallory Mosner

Queer non-binary (they/she) Jewish writer and Ayurvedic Health Counselor who loves puzzles, cats and meditation.

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