(September 15, 2016 at 2:53 am)Excited Penguin Wrote:(September 15, 2016 at 2:15 am)Losty Wrote: I don't agree that clothing doesn't matter. If I see a guy dressed as a proselytizing Mormon, I will not make any cringeworthy perv jokes to him. If I see a naked girl, I will not try to recruit her to my purity club, if I see a man in a business suit I will not offer him half of my sandwich unless he actually mentions being hungry, if I see a woman in a burqa I will not invite her to my skinny dipping party.
Clothes do not determine a person's value or worth. They are a factor in determining how I will treat a person though. People can deny it if they want to seem PC but everyone knows it's true.
I would agree with that except for the fact that you might draw the wrong conclusions and commit a faux pas.
That would be a risk whether it's based on clothing, age, gender, apparent personality, body language etc etc etc. People make inferences based on perceived data. There's always a risk of being wrong but it's impossible to function without doing it.
