Should a woman be treated differently if...

[drfuzzy]

It's a sad comment upon one aspect of our society that the question of respect/judgment/value with regard to how much skin is showing is only applied to females.  I was shown a "sexual harassment" video at work yesterday that spent quite some time advising female employees to dress modestly.  The implication was that tight clothes or a too-short skirt created an environment where they actually invited sexual harassment.  Nothing at all was said about male dress.
   -- To equalize the outrage, this out-dated video also strongly implied that all harassers are male.  I happen to KNOW this isn't the case.

Our society, though, tends to keep the males covered, and show as much female skin as possible.  I played a wedding recently where the bridesmaid dresses looked like skimpy little shiny bath towels - bare shoulders, bare backs, bare arms, bare legs.  The men, of course, were in full tuxes.  The singer and I were drawing up skimpy little togas for the guys to wear, to equalize the situation.  What the women were wearing implied access.  What the men were wearing implied power.  If you don't think that's not a message being sent, you haven't been paying attention.

This is something that could use more discussion, as a society.