After Class, Skimpy Equality Response

"After Class, Skimpy Equality" was an eye opening article to read, especially now that I am in college.  For me it brought up many mixed feelings.  Looking back on what people wore this weekend to go out to parties, Belkin's descriptions were spot on.  In the article she asks a junior about his opinion of sexual inequality in terms of what girls and boys wear to parties and he describes that "'When the guys go to the Street they are laid-back, casual, like they are going to class,” he said. “But the women come in, in short cocktail dresses, makeup, high heels'" (1), which is exactly how I have seen people in my dorm dress before going to parties.  Reading this made me wonder if girls feel a need to dress in this way to seem, as Belkin said "sexually available", or if it is a personal decision. 
I believe that women should be able to dress however they want without men feeling that they are entitled to them.  There is a disturbing part of the article where Belkin mentions frat boys at Yale who created a slogan saying "No means yes" and a fraternity member from USC who referred to women as "targets".  Fraternity parties are supposed to be fun but when people in attendance think of the parties as a place to violate women, there is a problem.  Just because a woman dresses more provocatively than usual when going to a party does not mean that she should be objectified and preyed upon by her male peers. 
A quote from a student from a female student from University of Utah really stuck with me, she said “Personally, I think that this is the time in your life when you’re most experimental,” she said. “It’s the designated time to try new things and get stuff out of your system. If parents were still in our mindset, they would understand. I think that every person has been there, but I think when I grow up I will look back and think it’s unhealthy. Because it’s animalistic. But it’s just what happens at this stage.”(2).  I believe this to be true because college is a time in a person's life where young people are finally free from their parents and are able to make their own decisions in how they spend their time, who they hang out with and and how they dress.  Partying is popular in college because it is the only time in a person's life when it's possible, because after college graduates are faced with the looming responsibilities of finding a career.  Overall, I have mixed feelings about this article but I know that it will definitely make me think twice about the fashion choices of me and my fellow female peers.