The mod note in the bikini thread

Just because someone posts themselves in a bikini doesn’t mean they are inviting you to make creepy comments about them. They are not inviting you to ignore every other aspect of who they are and only talk about them like a sexual object, like you’re some sort of sexual predator. They’re wearing clothes they want to wear–that’s it.

Women do not exist for men’s amusement. No, not even if they dress a certain way, wear certain makeup, or anything. They dress that way because they want to, not because they want to be reduced to their sexual parts and not be treated as human beings.

To think that the reason these doctors are in bikinis is because they want to be reduced to merely eye candy with no brains is misogynistic.

And, yes, I’m explaining so that women don’t have to. You don’t have the right to demand that the group you are disparaging has to explain to you why it is disparaging when everyone else knows. It’s up to you to educate yourself, not up to them do spoonfeed you that which you should have already learned.

Because, yes, if you’ve ever talked to a woman before, you should already know this shit is creepy and unwelcome. The only women you should talk to like that are those who are deliberately doing so for male amusement–i.e. porn stars and the like.