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

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

The top picture looks like a chorus line of dweebs. In a strange sort of way I feel sorry for her. I can't imagine what it was like for her growing up.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure it's a great life growing up. She was homeschooled, so there was no fear of being bullied at recess, or faced with kids who didn't like her, none of that. She was always surrounded with home and family and people from church who were exactly like her.

Now that she's an adult, what has she got to worry about? Nothing, not a care in the world. As long as she doesn't start questioning, she'll be able to live in her pretty princess happyland forever.

The conservative homeschool world is starting to acknowledge, though, an very un-happyland phenomena of these kids, usually females of course, growing up and *never leaving home* because they never meet members of the opposite sex, so they don't get married, and in the case of the girls they don't work outside the home, so they hit middle age having spent their lives being "maidens" waiting for some husband who of course will never come.

If I had my way, I'd have her enlist in the Army as a chaplain's assistant so she'd be forced to see that there is a world outside this experiment in re-creating the movie "The Village".

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

As Captain Kirk would say, a gilded cage is still a cage. I think it is damned irresponsible for parents to raise children who are incapable of being self sufficient. I agree with your comment about having her join the army.

What is so terrible about this is that Jesus was very engaged with the world. I should think Mary and Joe would have sent him to public school.

[miafeliz.livejournal.com]

With Hebrew School at the right age.

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

But would they have sent him to a Jesuit college?

[miafeliz.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, you know those Jesuits, they might be too liberal for the divine boy.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Oh come now, haven't you kids heard the joke?

A Franciscan and a Dominican are fighting insanely over which order God loves the most. Finally they write a letter to the Lord Himself. Quickly they receive a response on expensive bond paper that reads: My children: Know that I love you both equally. Signed Jesus Christ, SJ.

[miafeliz.livejournal.com]

Yes... I was going to try to retell it, becuase I just heard it recently though it was a bit different, but in the end it was signed God, OP.