The thing about BearHoney's point is that they do only show one african american woman, and her outfit is sadly skanky. Why so many white chicks in utterly un-notable "what are they doing in a comparison of sexy to skanky anyway" clothing, and one african american woman in leather skirt. There's clearly some sampling issues here, but I'm willing to chalk that up to small sample size and not necessarily racism. They might as well have put up teletubbies in the stupid survey, though. What does sexy and skanky have to do with long sleeve shirts and capris?

I'm a man, and I thought the quiz was kind of fun. I agree with a previous poster that it was reassuring that by far the most common response was "neither." I will add that the women who were most likely to get "sexy" were not showing much flesh.

The women who were most likely to get "skank" either dressed like Bratz dolls or were generally wearing unappealing clothing. The only real exception was the black lady in the leather miniskirt. I am not a fan of leather miniskirts, but had that skirt been some other material she would have looked professional. Her hair and top were fairly conservative. I voted "neither" for her. I think her skank rating was entirely based on the fabric of her skirt.

In general I think that the responses to the quiz showed much more maturity than one might expect by reading a headline about it. I do think that more discretion in blocking out faces was probably called for though.

I'm 50 and keep in shape, my arms are OK, but it is getting harder and harder to find summer tops that are not cut away and scooped down to here. I notice more and more women my age and older in the office wearing low-cut, cutaway tops. The other morning in staff meeting it was a sea of wrinkled sun-damaged would-be cleavages framed in frilly pastel lace. Eek! The young women can find out for themselves if the cleavage look works for them in the workplace, but I think it makes women my age in the workplace look like we are trying too hard. I have taken to wearing Duofold Duo-Dri T-shirts under tank tops (and an overblouse or jacket over all that in the office) because Duofold is cool in hot weather. Of course it would be even cooler if I could find a decent top that didn't have to be layered because it covered the subject. I tried Land's End but they are low cut too! Whatever happened to tank tops whose scoop neck came up to say, three inches or less from the collarbone, and whose armholes are not cutaway?) Even Shade Clothing (made for Mormon girls) seems to be discontinuing their tank tops in favor of cap sleeves. I'm not a religious fanatic I just don't want to flash the world and look like I'm trying too hard at my age. It's getting harder and harder to find summer clothing that covers the subject. The active outfitters like Columbia, etc., have not yet caught on to the need for longer lengths, and only come to the waist, which is too short to even layer over a long strappy camisole. I am not about to wear anything "strappy" on its own. I have to layer the strappy camisole over the T-shirt because the activewear T-shirts cover the boobs and armholes but do not cover the middle. The strappy camisoles and tanks come down long enough to reach the pants but they are all so cutaway. I am *trying* not to assault your eyes, promise.

Didn't anyone notice that the option that generally received the most votes was "neither"? I was oddly reassured by the fact that merely wearing weather appropriate clothing (albeit overrevealing) didn't seem to merit the skanky label in most cases.

Who's "we" CP? I guess TONY felt that THEY did need to provide THEM with an online quiz!

Is this a good time to point out to all the men out there that WE DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR FUCKING GUT?

Hint: You don't look nearly as good as you think you do, and even if you did, WE DON'T WANT TO SEE IT.

No shirt=trailer trash. 'Nuff said.

I am abivalent about being a word police officer, so to speak, but I have a strict policy against EVER calling a woman a skank, or a slut, or a whore. I don't care what she is wearing. I put those words in the same category as nigger and fag (sorry). I doubt the NYT would sub title an article "faggy or masculine? ". As for the other poster's comment:

" the Latina and Black women have more skanky votes than a white woman wearing something nearly identical"- the answer is that the misogynist tendency to judge a woman's character by her clothes is only tempered by classism. A college student in a cotton tank top gets a pass. A poor woman in a glittery tank top is a whore.

Fashion matters, and there is good and bad taste, appropriate and inappropriate. But the words we use to describe tacky clothes on women don't have to be "skanky" or "slutty". Leave her morals out of the discussion. Lets treat women's clothes the way we treat mens: thumbs up or down.

sexy

skanky

neither

crappy

these women are probably not skanky - they just dress crappy.

on the headless fat torsos featured on news programs about obesity, LOL. I've always been afraid of seeing my tummy on the evening news.

"I just turned 24, I'm not turned on by wrinkles. I'm sure that will change as I get older."

I reckon, but why wait? I'm 50 and sleep with folks your age. They like it, although, to be frank, it embarrasses me a bit. Wrinkled dames are tricksey, not in a Gollum sort of way, but in the very best ways.

Even just across the street from the Park...

A breeze even then, perhaps...

New York City August hot is just as miserably hot as

A New York minute is...miserably truncated.

HOT. I forgot.