More on modesty
Nov. 19th, 2008 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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.
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Date: 2008-11-19 08:44 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-11-19 10:38 pm (UTC)"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
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Date: 2008-11-20 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-20 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-19 10:52 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-11-19 11:06 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-11-20 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-19 11:13 pm (UTC)At some point, they have to figure that it's not outside stimuli forcing them to think this way, right? Right?
Yeah, no.