Reply #5: well, perhaps it's a stretch, but it seems to me that whenever I hear/see the phrase

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"she looks like a whore" not only does it piss me off because it's degrading to actual sex workers, but also because it's very controlling; it's saying that women who are not whores cannot dress a certain way, or if a woman does dress a certain way, then she is a whore. The next step is that I often see this phrase in conjunction with the old "she was asking for it" bullshit when someone gets attacked.

It just seems to go hand in hand so often, it's hard to separate the mentality of one from the other, that if a woman is "dressed like a whore" then anything which happens to her is her own fault. In this case, the person did not make that jump, but it still irks me to see this kind of comment, then worse to see it defended by calling me PC for saying something.