Question

What comparison is implied by the sentence , "They act as if we wore our skirts too short and invited trouble.Is this an effective analogy ?

Answer 1

The statement that , "They act as if we wore our skirts too short and invited trouble, presents an effective analogy.

Explanation:

The Statement comes from the editorial written as  "It’s Time for  a Nation to Return the Favor " on 20th November in the year of 2005, published in The Times-Picayune .

The statement has been made against the people of Washington. The remark made as an analogy is represented towards the burdensome for those people who might have forgotten their status quo. the skirts is compared to that status quo where the shortness of the skirt represents the burdensome and the invited trouble represents their ill remembrance about it.

Answer 2

The comparison that is implied here is that the short skirt invites trouble by itself.

Explanation:

The comparison drawn in here is through the analogy of a short skirt.

The line is talking about how girls are told that they are wearing clothes that are inviting to the men that are going to be preying on them but for the trouble to be invited by a particular set of clothes it has to exist on a way before hand.

Thus trouble that thus exists in here is with the person themselves and not the skirt which is why the analogy works.