DEAR MISS MANNERS.....

 I like to read Miss Manners ( advice column ) just to make sure I am up on all the ways to offend people.😉 Sometimes she really puts people who feel they have been subjected to bad manners in their place. And sometimes they are funny, like this one...

Dear Miss Manners: Increasingly these days, both men and women wear T-shirts with messages, mottos and insults emblazoned on them. Presumably, at least part of the intent is to communicate something. I enjoy looking at them and trying to decipher the messages.
However, to do so with women may involve a prolonged and possibly unwanted stare at their chests, especially since I am a slow reader. What would Miss Manners recommend in such situations?

Miss Manners agrees that people who turn themselves into billboards must expect to be read. But she finds it disingenuous of you to suggest that T-shirt messages are so long or dense as to require the reader to give them prolonged attention.
You are allowed one glance — and no leaning in closely, even if you are nearsighted. Then move on.