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

[miafeliz.livejournal.com]

Oh man... I've actually seen both those blogs. I discovered them after someone mentioned them on a Catholic writer's list I sporadically read, so being the curious gal that I am, I had to check them out. It was amusing in a way-- I agree that Colleen Hammond's blog comes across as holier than thou, I'm a better kind of Catholic than the rest of you, tripe.

I feel sorry for Clare at Lilymaiden. Her life is so narrowly focused and the real world isn't puppy dogs, angels and roses all the time. It can be ugly, nasty and cruel, but it can also be wonderful, rewarding and fulfilling if you get a taste of it. She needs to know that there might not always be someone to take care of her, and what's she gonna do if she has no education, 10 kids and a husband who leaves her for a not-so-modest woman?