As the temperature drops, I know the last thing on your mind is wearing skirts and crop tops. Soon, the temperatures will rise, the plants will thrive and you’ll want to lose your thermal sweaters in exchange for a little skin.

Society presents a very important and controversial question; what makes what you wear acceptable?

However, if you take into account all social norms, you’ll see that silent rules are very loudly imposed. The fact that bras are not okay to even mention, while bikinis are acceptable to wear freely, makes many people angry. What is the difference between two thin pieces of cloth? (Not that I’m saying women are going to start only wearing bras, but we’d like to have a choice without getting treated harshly).

You might like lipstick and fishnets, and I will accept that. You might like love stories and hard punk music, or like to dress like Nicky Minaj and I still say that’s okay. We are all different. We do different things, we were raised differently and we like different things.

So let Miley Cirus lick off her make up and let Katy Perry kiss girls. It’s who they are, and they shouldn’t be judged just because it’s something you and I wouldn’t do.

Slut shaming is the act of forcing someone to cover their liking for the things that go against social norms, through bullying. As we have been taught in school since pre-k, bullying is very, very wrong.

So why is slut shaming acceptable?

Nothing is being done to prevent it either. Schools have rules like the two fingers to the straps and thumb length. Instead of telling us to help ourselves and express ourselves, sometimes we are told that our form of expression is wrong.

Either way, thumb length may look innocent on some females, but others are born with a bodacious backside, or breasts that have their own presence.

Slut shaming is also over-sexualizing natural female body parts. To appease societies’ standards, we have to cover more while not appearing too prudish. We have to use make up to be beautiful because our natural beauty isn’t beautiful enough. And we have to be outgoing, but still ladylike. It’s tiresome.

“They’re my boobs, don’t tell me how to wear them,” junior Esperanza Vargas said in response to everyone trying to get her to cover her breasts.

For myself, the answer to what we can wear is simple: wear whatever you feel comfortable in. I do not care how you live your life or what you do or what you like. It is who you are, and that is what is the most important thing.