There is a fine line between fine art and what is offensive. It's all in the consumer's point of view. For instance, one may look at a photograph or a painting of a semi naked woman, and deem it offensive, while others see it as art. We all see things differently, which makes us a diverse society, something that open-minded people have been striving at for decades.

Someone found my (for lack of a better word) art offensive last month. If you didn't read it, it was based on skin tight, low cut pants, and high-rise tank tops, basically clothes that require shaving and waxing before wearing. To single it out more, it was about a particular girl whose shorts were so short, the bottom of her butt cheeks were exposed. This girl became my muse for the column to come. I generalized girls that dress like that and put a comical spin on it, which turned out to be a pretty good column, in my opinion. Based on the positive feedback, I'd put it in the top two in terms of feedback. It was overwhelming how many people said to me in person or via email that they were in total agreement.

I celebrated that these clothes were hip, as I celebrated the girls who wore them. Outfits like those invite second glances, if somebody disagrees with that, they need to pull their head out of the sand.

Have you ever heard the phrase, “The clothes make the man?” Well, it works for women too. How you dress and your appearance represents who you are, and projects how you feel about yourself to others. If a woman's ass were exposed in a public place for the world to see, I would see that as one who is promiscuous, and starved for (negative) attention, not one who is too warm. If somebody wearing a tie-dyed outfit and barefoot, had ratty hair and was not bathed and unshaven walked into a business looking for employment that forced them to be seen by the public like the girl I was commenting on, what do you think they would hear? “You've got yourself a job!” I don't think so. Discrimination exists.

I used to have long hair. I remember the biggest difference I noticed when I cut it was how I was treated. Before I would walk into a store and was avoided. The minute I cut it, I was addressed with respect. My hair had been clean, brushed, and pulled back appropriately, but it didn't matter. Society had viewed me as an undesirable, until I cut it, which is when I was referred to as 'Sir.' Kind of objectifying, wouldn't you think?

As for dehumanizing, objectifying, and degrading behavior, that works both ways too. My girlfriend recently attended a Chippendales show, in which a bunch of oiled up muscle heads disrobe completely. My girlfriend never commented on how any of these men would have been a good provider; she was talking about the guy's bodies. She, and every other woman in the sold out place dehumanized, objectified, and degraded each dancer there. Do you think the dancers are upset? I don't think so. They were viewed as meat, not as humans, the same exact way I viewed that woman's exposed ass as meat. The clothes make the person, and that girl was no exception.

One may read that what society thinks about me is important, which it is not, which is why I'm a comic, not a stockbroker. How I look at people shouldn't matter either. If this column, or the one prior has talked a girl out of dressing in a 'trendy' manner, or if it has talked men out of stripping, allow me to apologize to all the voyeurs out there. I'm really sorry, I'll buy you a beer at the strip club, if I'm not too busy dehumanizing, objectifying, or degrading the naked girl grinding her buttocks against my crotch. Who ever said I was complaining?