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Why Don't More Female Figure Skaters Wear Pants?
The Atlantic ^ | February 17, 2018 | Ashley Fetters

Posted on 02/19/2018 6:06:29 AM PST by C19fan

Last weekend, one of the buzzier stories out of the Olympic ladies’ figure skating short program competition was one you might call … surprisingly surprising. The French figure skater Maé-Bérénice Méité made headlines: for the fact that she skated to a Beyoncé medley, and even more so, for the fact that she did it in pants.

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KEYWORDS: feminism; skating
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To: Ace's Dad
Indeed, sex appeal is the main reason, just as NFL cheerleading, and which is part of the degeneration of the sport. A women's sexual beauty - and it is beauty and a testimony to special creation - should be for husband to behold and has compliment on her one, though with a love that transcends the physical, and is not for public consumption.

You won't find many here that will accept that premise.

And that moral reform is more important than fiscal, and that foul language should be avoided, all of which opposition is paradoxical, since both are contrary to the restoration of the Republic conservatism seeks. Many are mere libertarians, which presupposes men are controlled from within rather than from without, avoiding evil and doing good, but without strength of conscience and culture that is not possible, while Scripture needs to be the standard for determining what is morally good or evil, preventing then moral anarchy

81 posted on 02/20/2018 5:08:10 AM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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