More on modesty

[lady_kishiria]

miafeliz commented in my last Christian Taliban entry that the modesty movement drives her up a wall. So this link is "A Week In Feminine Dress" from http://lily-maiden.blogspot.com

http://lily-maiden.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

Did you know that quasi-Edwardian clothes are required for salvation, and for keeping boys chaste? Inner burqa, ahoy.

But wait, it gets horribler. Look at the clothes these girls are wearing. At first I didn't think it was odd; they are practicing for a dance recital and those Little House on the Prairie get-ups are their costumes, right?

Wrong! Those are their EVERYDAY CLOTHES.

http://lily-maiden.blogspot.com/2007/05/where-have-i-been-lately.html

This blog is creepy because it's a self-imposed world where males and females are kept separate, females are shoved firmly into gender roles of being pretty and staying at home and doing feminine things like dancing and interacting with nature only as far as taking quiet walks in the rain with a male relative while saying the Rosary. It's worse that they are held responsible for the cleanliness of boys' thoughts, a scenario a friend of mine once called "being your penis's babysitter".

But at least Lily isn't at all cruel. That's my job, but Colleen Hammond has me beat in the mean-spiritedness department:

http://colleenhammond.blogspot.com

Colleen loves to be pious and holy, but she's a right bitch. I try feebly towards being a bitch, but I'm an admitted agnostic, so it's rather pathetic really.

Comments

[theletterelle.livejournal.com]

Modesty survey? MODESTY SURVEY??

Fuck. That. Noise. And dammit, women, quit congratulating yourself for your personal dress sense! What you choose to wear or not to wear does not make you better than someone else! God DAMN, do I want to slap some people.

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

I loved this comment so much:

"Bare arms aren't usually a stumbling block. Slit sleeves are - because a guy can mentally continue the slit and take it places it shouldn't go."

Does that mean a thong and pasties are a no-no? LOL

[zare-k.livejournal.com]

I figure by the time they get through with all the nitpicking the only truly modest clothing would be a full-length, long-sleeved burlap sack.

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, a burlap sack without slits, and be careful of the shoes.

[zare-k.livejournal.com]

You know, if I spent that much time worrying about the modesty of each inch of my clothing I would never make it out of the house to work. I suppose that's part of the point, actually.
But damn, all this talk of females presenting "stumbling blocks" to men-- to borrow phrasing from the Muslims, "Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and be modest". Sheesh.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure that's the point.

The blog "Taliban Rising" in an earlier post ends every entry with the words "Fight the inner burqa!" This is the inner burqa she means.

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

You know though, these are all Catholic girls, right? And they don't want to presnet stumbling blocks to men by dressing inmodestly, right? Here is my thought, look how modestly dressed altar boys are and they've been nothing but trouble.

[theletterelle.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of Xander's words, "I'm a teenage guy. Linoleum makes me think of sex." Or the Ferengi in the first season of Next Gen-- "They clothe their females! Inviting others to unclothe them! Disgusting!"

At some point, they have to figure that it's not outside stimuli forcing them to think this way, right? Right?

Yeah, no.