One of the important things I learned about raising a girl is that when they are old enough, you let them fight their own battles with siblings. When my daughter used to come over to begin each weekend, the phone would ring about 15 minutes later. It was always her sister wondering if my daughter “borrowed” some of her clothes without asking. After two weekends of getting dragged into a battle that was not mine to fight…I instituted a new rule. “Stay out of it”. It appears this is just a normal phase of the “territory wars” which siblings are best left alone to resolve.
As to the “borrowing without asking”…which to me is like calling a janitor a “maintenance engineer”…lol…I agree with the logic of first considering the age appropriate perspective that surrounds the “crime” before using a hammer to swat a fly.
A teen scavenging through a sister’s clothes is one thing. An adult neighbor doing the same is a whole different ball game.
I started this adventure much later in life (in my 30’s) than many people here, making this topic is a moot point in my case. But I will admit to ripping off the heads of a few of my sister’s Barbie dolls a time or two. Lol
The first “dress” I put on was one of my (ex) wife’s that had been discarded in the trash. Although it was exhilarating initially, the fact that it belonged to my wife kind of launched me into thinking about the movie “Psycho” and stuff, which totally “wigged me out”. I started thinking …”hey, it’s one thing to be discovered with a dress. It’s a whole new dimension potentially…being discovered with a family member’s clothes. (like a wife, a mother…or God forbid…a daughter’s). All kinds of perverted misconceptions could be attached to those scenarios, although there would be no truth to them. So, off came the dress and that was the last time I went down that road…I bought my own…