Utterly Meaningless

The URL should have been a dead giveaway.

Me and my leather mini skirt would have been thrown out right away.

‘…girls (and moms) had to dress demurely so that the boys wouldn’t be tempted to look.’

Can’t we just poke their eyes out instead? I mean, ‘if thy right eye offends thee, pluck it out …’

oh, wait a minute … we want them to look – that’s the point, isn’t it?

I’m so confused.

This reminds me of when someone recently asked if I was nervous about taking care of a newborn and raising a child in general (I’m 8 months pregnant with our first).

I told her, “No, I’m sure we’ll be able to handle our kid just fine. I worry more about other kids…. actually, I take that back – I dread dealing with other parents.”

We want to homeschool someday and to be involved locally, but hearing about all the ‘extreme’ groups of any kind freak me out, hehe.

I’m guessing that everyone being covered up so the boys don’t go bonkers at … the sight of a feminine ankle? knee? shorts? … rules out little brothers and sisters bathing together. If that’s the case, I’d have a lot of kids-in-the-tub photos to burn.

IIRC the girls (and moms) had to dress so that one couldn’t identify their underwear through their clothes. Shirts had to be so baggy that bra straps were invisible.

I’m not sure what they were worried about. Bra straps aren’t exactly erotic.

How’s ’bout the boys. Did they have to dress equally as underclothing-invisible?

Now was this being advocated for only at the meetings, or did someone do spot checks at peoples’ homes?

Hey, under those guidelines, Alasandra’s leather skirt would have been A-OK. 🙂

It’s getting hard to tell the serious people from the spoofers.

I find those dress codes hysterical (in more than one sense of the word).

One of the first hs groups we accessed was, for better or worse, a Mennonite group. We are quite obviously not Mennonite, but we didn’t know the group was a strict Mennonite group (because there are degrees of Mennonite-ness believe it or not). Anyway, the handouts went on for 4 pages about what girls and women could and could not wear, and yes, there was the ever-present “guideline” of not being able to determine any underclothing.

What was so funny about it was that the MAN who was giving out the handouts and the MAN who was giving the lecture were both wearing jeans so tight I could not only tell they sure weren’t Jewish, but I could also calculate the metric volume of their balls if I were mathematically inclined!

So, apparently, it’s okay to dress like a slut, but only if you’re one of the boys. 😉

Audrey, you are having way too much fun! 🙂

And my question is — will the boys not be helping with the laundry? Or at least allowed in the same room when laundry is being folded?

After all, they might see a bra strap! 🙂

Nance

I have found that the same women who go into these frenzies over dressing ‘demurely’ also tend to be very pro-breastfeeding. It’s all very confusing. Sorry, but I am not hiding my baby’s head under 3 layers of blanket just so your son doesn’t catch a glimpse of skin and/or underclothing. Breastfeeding requires easy access to the breast. I wonder what kind of clothing would have to be worn in order to hide these big honkin’ clasps on a nursing bra. And how does that provide my infant easy access to his source of nourishment?

Dumb.

So if it looks like they’re not wearing any undergarments, what does that do to the men’s minds? That’s got to be even worse! Women with nothing underneath their clothing but skin!!

So if you’re not supposed to be able to see any underclothing, is it OK to just go braless (my typical lazy M.O.)?