Back in the days, women wore skirts that reached to the floor and shirts with sleeves that almost covered their hands. The neckline was sure to cover the chest and sometimes, girls even wore hats to hide their hair. Needless to say, women weren't exactly exposed back then.

In today's society, we're able to give women the freedom to dress how they please. You can wear a maxi skirt, a mini skirt, a crop top, a long sleeve, sneakers, heels, v necks, turtlenecks - the possibilities are endless nowadays. Given the freedom women have, they enjoy showing off their figures. Whether you enjoy showing off your long legs, your bust, your booty, or your curves - women enjoy flaunting the beautiful bodies they've been given. I mean, why shouldn't we be proud?

While having these bodies we were given with all these different and unique features, it's become a blessing and a curse. While being proud of our bodies, some boys have felt that it's okay to try and touch them. Why? Because it's exposed anyway, so we must want to be touched. A girl posts a selfie on her social media account with a bit of her cleavage showing and receives dozens of messages from boys asking to do disgusting things to her. Why? Because we're showing off our body on a public platform, so we must be asking for a guy to beg to f**k us. A woman goes out to the club with her girlfriends and is wearing a shorter skirt than she usual does, so a boy goes up to her and lifts her skirt and grabs her a**. Why? Well our skirts are super short anyway, so we must want a boy to come up to us and grab our bodies inappropriately. Are you catching my drift here?

Nowadays, women may be confident in their bodies, but it seems as if we are unable to do so without being treated poorly in return. It's not even just with our bodies though, it's with the idea of sexuality in general. Take the music scene for example. You hear countless male rappers and artists talk about sex in their songs, yet society doesn't blink an eye. Take Trey Songz for example. "Slow Motion," "Touchin', Lovin'," and "Neighbors Know My Name," all clearly have to do with having sex with a woman. Trey, like many other men in the industry, freely express their desire to be with a woman on a sexually level, and men and women alike still view him as an incredible artist. Now, you take someone like Ariana Grande, who is just beginning to be comfortable with expressing sexuality in her music, is looked at as a hypocrite and is often called a slut or a whore because of her music with songs like "Side to Side."

Now explain to me this, why is it okay for a man to express his desires but a woman can't? And if a woman does so, why is it automatically viewed as an invitation to be mistreated by our society? Newsflash y'all, everybody wants sex, but expressing an interest in the topic does not mean you're asking to be treated like a piece of meat. Take catcalling for example. A woman, just walking down the street in whatever outfit she chooses to wear and men holler and whistle at her like dogs. It's disgusting. I once went to the beach and I had my bathing suit on and had a group of boys follow me down the walkway to my blanket with my friends while yelling things at me. It was extremely uncomfortable and made me keep my wrap on the rest of my time at the beach.

It's not fair that us girls have to feel ashamed of ourselves for expressing ourselves the way we want to. It isn't right that we are looked at as classless women because we choose to wear something that isn't up to another's standards. And it certainly isn't okay to taunt a woman just because she looks good to you. Boys (and yes I am calling you all boys because if you disrespect a woman like that, you are definitely not a man in my eyes,) imagine if someone treated your daughter or your mother the way you're treating that girl on the street or the girl with the selfie on Instagram. You'd want to rip their heads off, wouldn't you?

Moral of the story - let us girls express ourselves and embrace our bodies in peace and stop trying to make us feel bad about it when it is our right to love ourselves.