I had linked “common knowledge” to the wrong place, sorry. (Fixed now.) Do you mean that not only everyone (within a given society, except for tiny minorities of non-neurotypicals and the like) knew that people dressing provocatively were communicated that they enjoyed wolf whistles, but also that everyone knew that everybody knew that, and everybody knew that everybody knew that everybody knew that, and so on, so that someone dressing provocatively would immediately lose all plausible deniability?
Less specifically (that is, not referring to “wolf whistles” in particular), and more “a majority” than “every single person above -.5 sigmas of social consciousness”, but yes. Hell, even as recently in the 90′s, there was a difference between the way married people and available people dressed. Clothing is declining as a useful sexual signal.
I’m not sure what using plausible deniability as a social metric serves in this case. People who wear a red bracelet without knowing what it means should be admonished, in a society in which the bracelet serves as a signal, not punished.
It’s more a case of people arguing for their right to wear red bracelets without getting cat calls.
Or possibly even women wearing red bracelets hoping to get cat calls from high status/attractive males, getting cat calls from geeks and using the plausible deniability to complain.
I had linked “common knowledge” to the wrong place, sorry. (Fixed now.) Do you mean that not only everyone (within a given society, except for tiny minorities of non-neurotypicals and the like) knew that people dressing provocatively were communicated that they enjoyed wolf whistles, but also that everyone knew that everybody knew that, and everybody knew that everybody knew that everybody knew that, and so on, so that someone dressing provocatively would immediately lose all plausible deniability?
Less specifically (that is, not referring to “wolf whistles” in particular), and more “a majority” than “every single person above -.5 sigmas of social consciousness”, but yes. Hell, even as recently in the 90′s, there was a difference between the way married people and available people dressed. Clothing is declining as a useful sexual signal.
If the minority who doesn’t know something is large enough, you don’t lose plausible deniability by doing that.
I’m not sure what using plausible deniability as a social metric serves in this case. People who wear a red bracelet without knowing what it means should be admonished, in a society in which the bracelet serves as a signal, not punished.
It’s more a case of people arguing for their right to wear red bracelets without getting cat calls.
Or possibly even women wearing red bracelets hoping to get cat calls from high status/attractive males, getting cat calls from geeks and using the plausible deniability to complain.