🧩 BND Motif Index · M1441
Dressed for attention
A woman's revealing clothes are said to invite men's looks, so her offence at being looked at is hypocrisy; the answer is that what she wears invites nothing and the fault lies with the men who judge her.
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Sex and gender🗂️ Blame motifs
- 3claims filed under it
- 4right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Secretly flattered
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (0 left-leaning, 0 center, 4 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “joking about women's revealing gym attire” “women dress in a way that is certain to at least attract the male gaze and then act horrified when they do... men are visual creatures” “Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists.”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 3
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-02 “Women dress provocatively in major cities and then act horrified when men notice them.” 2
- 2026-11-02 “Men calling women who wear short shorts to the gym whores are misogynists.” 2
- 2026-10-14 “Shane Gillis joked that women now dress revealingly at the gym but men aren't allowed to look, drawing backlash.” 1
M1441 · first seen 2026-11-02 · last 2026-10-14 · what this is · how the index works