|
Re: Modesty Myth
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cindy
Kind of like a church leader doing a double take at a young girl walking out of Wal Mart in short shorts. And being kind of flirty with the young women in the church. And thinking nobody noticed. He was just considered "friendly" by some.
|
Yes.
I recall being at a church picnic about 4 years ago. A young woman was there who was wearing a very form-fitting shirt and a mid-thigh skirt. She turned around and bent over to pick up her daughter--obviously giving people a great view.  I was so disgusted, though, because this man that attended our church gave her the slowwwww up and down and then gave her the up and down again. I mean, it was so obviously licentious my stomach turned. He didn't blink or turn away--he just reallllly enjoyed the view. I felt very bad for his wife who was sitting right next to him. I don't know how she could have missed that.
Yet, he would be the first one to complain if a woman wore a split skirt--even if the skirt was long. He commented to my husband one afternoon, "Why would a woman wear a split skirt unless she wants a man to look?" Now, the answer to that question is debatable, but IMO that is a perfect example of a man giving himself permission to act badly because the woman is "asking for it" in his estimation.
__________________
"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
|
Threaded Mode
