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What Has the Feminist Movement Done to Modesty -- And American Girls?
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| Feb. 16, 2005
| Linda Chavez
Posted on 02/16/2005 7:35:13 AM PST by MisterRepublican
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To: maica
Makes you wonder - it's a nationwide trend, I guess. The boys can't keep their clothes on because they're so baggy.
The girls can't keep theirs on because they're so short and tight they reveal everything.
Sadly, the same "fashions" the 14yo are wearing has been filtering down to the kindergarten set.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:09:42 AM PST
by
cinives
(On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
To: MisterRepublican
And you wonder why
Bratz-related products have become extremely popular items.
To: maica
For most of history, most people lived in horrible squalid conditions. Whole families (sometimes several families) would live in a room or two -- the people had little more modesty or opportunities for privacy than barnyard animals (who often also lived in the same room). In large parts of the world (maybe a majority of the world) most people still live this way today. Exposed breasts are common. Modesty was only an option for very few in the upper class.
It's this tiny upper class that gets depicted in Jane Austen romance novels and Hollywood movies, and people think this was the norm. It's not.
To: cinives
In the older days, Feminists didn't want women to dress in a revealing way because it was catering to men. Now they want them to dress like sluts for older women to enjoy.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:12:27 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: Dashing Dasher
<<<>> Their parents aren't teaching them anything, obviously, because neither parent is in the home, they're both out working, trying to "have it all". You see these days, material things are more important, cell phones, tv in every room, big SUV in the driveway plus a car for each family member, vacation home, bla bla bla. It goes back to what I've said over and over again, women NEED to be in the home instead of out working 50-60 hours a week. This is the result of supermoms.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:15:54 AM PST
by
rockabyebaby
(What goes around, comes around!)
To: 68skylark
>>>In fact, the past was more sordid, grubby and immodest than anything we can now imagine<<<
On what planet did you witness the sordid, grubby and immodest past?
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:17:06 AM PST
by
rockabyebaby
(What goes around, comes around!)
To: the invisib1e hand
Well said. These people have trouble dealing with the naked truth. They have been ... exposed ... to the consequences of their actions. Now, they are busted. This story really has legs ... Sorry, I'll stop now.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:17:25 AM PST
by
Airborne1986
(Well, You can do what you want to us, but we're not going to sit here while you badmouth the U.S.A.)
To: 68skylark
"In fact, the past was more sordid, grubby and immodest than anything we can now imagine." Please elaborate for us.
and.........there were tv crews around to tape the events and disseminate it into homes all around the world...right????? I am alluding to the idea that personal debauchery's influence was pretty much limited to those within eye shot or ear shot of the event in the past, but not theses days. Which means we have more responsibility to keep our personal perversity's private.
To: 68skylark
I beg to differ.
The English have had a solid yeoman class at least since the Black Death, and a middle class of minor gentry long before that. Your average yeoman-farmer's daughters in the 13th century were as modest as they could be. This tradition has continued. Jane Austen was not upper class - she was very much middle, daughter of a country rector whose brothers went into the Navy.
It's the upper class that has always been immodest in Britain - the real scandals in Jane Austen's period were generated by the nobility and royalty.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:22:08 AM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: RayChuang88
Bratz costumes...
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:22:44 AM PST
by
newzjunkey
(Demand Mexico Turnover Fugitive Murderers: http://www.escapingjustice.com)
To: MisterRepublican
There is no room for modesty in radical feminism.
To: maica
Examples??Well, from a historical perspective, did you know that in the Victorian era -- the golden age of "female modesty," prostitution was far more widespread than it is today, and was socially acceptable to boot? In many parts of the country, it was considered the norm for a father to take his son to a prostitute as a rite of passage.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:26:25 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: MisterRepublican
Feminists are good for fun becasue they will have an abortion as a result of recreational sex. Feminists do not want marriage, but they do want sex. Feminists are not so picky about their sex partners because they enjoy recreational sex.
seems very clear.
To: MisterRepublican
If God meant us to be naked we would have been born...
Oh.
Never mind.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:28:23 AM PST
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: the invisib1e hand
Remember this: How did Monica seduce a president? She snapped her thong at him!
I miss the days when females work skirts that fell just below the neat or were ankle lanth, where I wasn't looking at their flab oozing over their waistbands, where they obviously weren't wearing undergarments like Ms. Natalie Portman (right):
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:28:33 AM PST
by
newzjunkey
(Demand Mexico Turnover Fugitive Murderers: http://www.escapingjustice.com)
To: 68skylark
In fact, the past was more sordid, grubby and immodest than anything we can now imagine. We didn't have a 30% illegitimacy rate in the past and tons of fatherless welfare families the taxpayers have to support.
To: rockabyebaby
My views are at post #23.
To: clearsight
there were tv crews around to tape the events and disseminate it into homes all around the world...right????? Nope. In the good old days you went down to your choice of local whorehouse and did your sinning in person. We've become spectators.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:30:45 AM PST
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: AnAmericanMother
It's the upper class that has always been immodest in Britain Yep, just look at the royal family.
To: newzjunkey
"Mmmmmm. Perky Natalie Portman."
Scary thing is, that's what Hillary is thinking.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:32:22 AM PST
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
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