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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
I get your point, and it's true that women tend to dress immodestly more often than men....
But the thing is... it's not necessary to follow Pentecostal 'standards' to dress modestly. The women I work with pretty much all dress modestly - and very few of them follow the Pentecostal guidelines (well, none of them to be precise). Casting my mind quickly over the group, out of about 20 women I can only think of one that dresses in a way that would cause men to do a double-take. Oh, and she almost always wears a skirt.
So that does bring us back full-circle to 'why are the women the ones who have all the dress standards' question.
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We all have dress standards. Imagine if a man came wearing a shirt with the length of sleeves that many women wear to church (Often just over the top of the shoulder down to elbow length) and wearing pants at the length that many women wear (knee length). He'd look more like he was dressed in modest beach wear than dressed for church. These lengths are regularly accepted for women in many churches but would never be accepted for men.
I don't think it is as much an issue that women are "the ones who have all the dress codes". I think it is more an issue that women are the ones who have issue with the dress codes.
There are areas of all of our lives where we tend to butt heads with standards more than in other areas. Women want to dress up, dress out and show themselves as a natural tendency (apparently from what I have observed) so this is an area that they are always at odds with and so it seems like they tables are heavy in their direction.
Men could care less about these things and so it isn't a big issue. It isn't that women are "the ones" targeted. It's that this is an area that hits closer to home.
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