Originally Posted by Lilith

Having just spent a couple months at a middle school I really was interested by the difference between how the girls were treated based on their style of dress. While the more provacatively dressed girls garnered the most attention (primarily from the opposite sex), often it was in a negative, teasing, taunting, even physical form. The goth type girls seemed to almost garner an equal amount of attention however it seemed to be more gentle in nature, less teasing, more talking. I think it would be good to do a sociological study of the quantity/quality of interactions middle school girls participate in based on their clothing style choices.