I’m Pakistani and I absolutely hate this aspect of our culture, I was telling my husband yesterday how unfairly women are treated by our society and each other by the way we dress.. We are brainwashed by our parents (who are also brainwashed) as kids that dressing a certain way makes you look like a prostitute and constantly sexualize the smallest amounts of skin showing even on kids. I love my parents so much don’t get me wrong and they have eased up through the years but there were several times I remember in elementary school and middle school and high school that they would get so angry with me for the way I dressed including the SHOES I wore (boots were considered “whorish” in 5th grade), my parents called me names including whore and hoe and say that I always want to dress like a “prostitute”. The emotional trauma and impact that this has brought in my life still affects me to this day at 27 years old. I get so angry even with my mother in law when she gives me an attitude for dressing a certain way. It’s just so unfair and seems like it will just follow me around my whole life I constantly try to tell myself to stop caring what my family thinks because at the end of the day they have to love me, but it still strikes a nerve and gets me so angry.