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Surely that's not the best thing he can do.

Why is it wrong if it is playful?

Ha yeah right. This statistic only holds water if you broaden the scope of what constitutes "sexual assault" until it loses all meaning. It's like me saying that you sexually assaulted me as a man because you looked at my crotch.

What you wear obviously makes a difference in how people perceive you. Trayvon Martin comes to mind, and I'm pretty sure he wasn't a girl. And you would never get a businessman walking through a ghetto full of gangbangers because the way he is dressed makes him a target.. It is naive to think that nothing you do affects how somebody thinks about you, because that is what you are really saying.

You do know that she is still free to choose though. If men go into higher paying jobs because they are less swayed by peer pressure then that is not a failing of men, but of women. However the people advising your friend are mature professionals who arguably know a lot more than she does. Did you ever consider that they actually are thinking about her best interests. I saw it so many times at Uni, and it only seemed to happen to the girls; they had some ridiculous dream about what career they were going to pursue, without any concern for the volume and duration of work it would entail. One of the most pronounced cases was a girl who wanted to become an Astronaut, against the advice of her tutors; she dropped out of that career path very quickly and now she is a single mother working shifts at Target.