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

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

This girl sounds like a really good prospect for becoming a nun, if there was an order devoted to pretty pretty habits. Well, she won't tempt good boys into being naughty, but she's going to get the surprise of her life if ever she is molested by rapist because she won't understand that it's about Power rather than Sex. God protect her.

There does not seem to be a blogspot by the name of colleen-hammond, should it have something other than a hyphen maybe?

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Yup, bad link fixed.

Unlikely that Lily would be assaulted by anyone outside her own family; she seems to never be alone, lives with her folks, and her only friends are other "maidens".

Her parents aren't sending her to college (she says it's "not in God's plan for her"--I got news for you honey, YOU make that kind of plan, not God), but she claims to want to get married and have babies. Since I'd be telling my 20-year-old quasi-employed daughter "Convent or GTFO" I suspect she has mega-controlling helicopter parents. Certainly they take pains to make sure Lily meets no one with a lifestyle or opinions different from theirs, and consequently hers.