Wow that is some grade A crazy rambling.

I'm right there with you. I don't think it looks "slutty" (I don't even know how I would define "looking slutty" tbh), but it just seems a little... gauche. It lacks creativity. The whole point of the dress is that it's not really clothing. It's just sort of boring and stupid and I don't know why we're all still…

yessssss. You know who is responsible to be ALL the role models in my daughters life? Her father, and me. It's funny cause she'd say the dress is "inappropriate" (She's a kindergartener). I think it's sad how our culture over-sexualizes the human body, but at the same time I don't want my young daughter wearing…

I would have a fucking problem with any man who was gross enough to walk the red carpet with HIS nips out, that's for sure.

I didn't say women shouldn't be visibly erotic. If she wore this to perform an adult burlesque/cabaret show, cool. There are appropriate times and places to be overtly sexual. But she wore this to an event where the men were fully clothed in non-erotic formal wear. It's this seepage of female objectification into…

Okay that is your takeaway fine. But when Janet Jackson flashed her nipple at the Superbowl I knew her album must really suck. And again FTR I don't give a damn when one of these stars "pusb the envelope" but let's admit it's all part of the game to get attention.

God is Rhianna's music as bad as Marky Mark's?

the dress would have been equally amazing with a nude (colored) lining. I'm not in a panic about my daughter deciding to dress like Rhianna. I can barely get her out of oversized hoodies for chrissakes. I'm just exhausted of naked Rhianna. For me, it's become a gimmick and it's grown tiresome. And so help me, if she…

Objectification of women and the female body has a very real effect on girls and young women. This isn't empowered nudity, this is a woman displaying her body in a highly eroticized way for the male gaze. It has nothing to do with disliking nudity and everything to do with the way our culture perpetuates a norm of…

Jesus, you're insane.

That is a really, really good point. I don't link this to sex; I certainly don't consider her a "slut" for having worn this. I consider her maybe a bit of an attention seeker (what pop star isn't?) and I consider her to be looking for that shock and awe; I consider her a poor dresser and somoene who is craving the…

Is it strange that I agree 100% with the quoted comment, except the slut shaming? And also with your comment on nudity? Look at Adele: great singer who sings about love and sex too, basically; but she doesn't need to wear anything extra-revealing or to twerk. Rihanna has a voice too, so why sell herself primarily as…

I guess I don't have a lot of respect for those artists as artists, either. Which is probably why I am so turned off by what I see as publicity stunts. Bey? Go ahead and wear nothing but diamonds. But with RhiRhi, it's more along the lines of Gaga's meat dress. Tacky and attention seeking, with no talent to back…

I don't think dressing scantily is kowtowing to the patriarchy in and of itself. I've certainly done it, although not to that extent. But it also feels a bit off to me when people praise women as empowered for it. It still feels wrong to me to look at sexuality or feeling comfortable with your body equated with…

I agree, and I find this knee-jerk "if you object to this, you're slut-shaming" reaction reductive and dismissive. Visible nipples and asscrack made this dress tacky rather than tastefully sexy, and there is nothing bold or progressive about eroticized female nudity.

'nudity is old' it's not a big deal. and that's precisely what the fifteen year old boy will say to his thirteen year old girlfriend when he is pressuring her to send him naked photos of herself that in his attempts to look cool he'll show all his mates.

Nudity is old. It's not exciting. And it doesn't make you edgy or provocative. You're just naked.

The fact that she went basically naked to a fashion awards show is hilarious to me.

Seeing the slip under her dress in that gif, now I'm wondering how see-through that dress was up close? Maybe it was designed to only be see-through with stage light/flashbulbs? Which is even more genius.

Really, you go to adult events in outfits like that?