[the invisib1e hand]

actions have consequences. bear them. (pun intended).

[Dashing Dasher]

I agree - many young woman have lost all sense of decency and with that goes their self esteem. The downward spiral continues ....

What are their parents teaching them?
Why would anyone think this was a good idea?
How low will they go?

I am hoping the rebound towards moral values reaches these women.

[mlc9852]

Anyone who has seen MTV or many of the tv shows on now knows young girls are affected by the media. No surprise there. It's just sad that one day most of them will regret their behavior. Our culture continues to deteriorate.

[68skylark]

This article illustrates "the fallacy of the idealized past." Chavez pines for an imagined past of female modesty, chastity and purity -- a past which she compares unfavorably to the grubby present-day. It's a very common flaw of the left and the right.

In fact, the past was more sordid, grubby and immodest than anything we can now imagine.

[SedVictaCatoni]

I just can't imagine what these girls were thinking

As she said in the first paragraph, they were "drunk out of their heads". Where's the mystery?

[HamiltonJay]

Ladies, please keep this proverb in mind... it is as true today as the day it was written.

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.

[Awestruck]

Female modesty was forced into the closet in the 60's... every attempt for it to see the light of day since then has been publically ridiculed and its devotees labled "prudes"...

[maica]

I hadn't been in the halls of a public high school for about 10 years when circumstances bought me there last year. I was jolted by the contrast between the way girls were dressing and the way boys were dressing. The school was a suburban very middle class high achieving institution.

The girls dressed like streetcorner sex trade workers did (again ten years ago.) I can't imagine how far hookers have gone in attire in these intervening years.

But the boys --- they were covered from head to toe in supersized baggy tops and pants. Are the girls becoming the aggressors in school? Are the boys feeling diminished and 'hiding'? It would seem that Laura Bush's message that it is time to focus on the needs of boys is long overdue, if this outward expression of 'self-esteem' is any indication.

[keats5]

This weekend I attended my daughter's gymnastics meet. I sat in front of a mother who was telling a woman beside he that she wished her daughter (approx 10 years old) would get her naval pierced. She thought it wold look "darling."

I think some kids are simply not taught modesty. It's not hard. We just need to parent our young.

I have a beautiful daughter, and I've taught her to be modest. She actually enjoys being known for her long, spiraling old fashioned skirts, and refuses to wear shorter skirts unless they're skorts, which keep her covered.

It started when she was young, and we taught her to keep her knees together and her feet on the floor when she wore skirts, because "ladies did not show their underware." Since she's a gymnast, I tell her to wear pants if she thinks she might be tempted to do her flips, even if she's just hanging out with her family.

[twas]

Feminists used to decry the sexual exploitation of women by men.

Feminists have succeeded in "empowering" women to take control of their sexuality.

The result is that now women are free to exploit their own sexuality.

We're pretty much right back where we started when feminists where decrying "exploitation" only now they don't have the men to bash.

YOU GO GIRL!

[RayChuang88]

And you wonder why Bratz-related products have become extremely popular items.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

There is no room for modesty in radical feminism.

[longtermmemmory]

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.

[eno_]

If God meant us to be naked we would have been born...

Oh.

Never mind.

[cyborg]

I don't know anymore. It seems that girls are held up to this high standard but ask the average American guy what he wants and it's usually the sort of gil on the GGW infomercials.

[Think free or die]

This trend makes me both sad and angry. We're raising two sons, who are now 9 and 11. Our older son is in his first year of middle school. Fortunately, neither son is at all interested in girls, and we think they'll both be late bloomers. It scares the daylights out of me to think of the temptations they'll have to deal with, and the risks to them of these aggressive, under-dressed girls. Young men have enough trouble behaving responsibly when hormones are raging, but these girls are making it ever more difficult. At school functions I find myself looking at the girls and wondering which of them I would ever want my sons involved with. Sadly, there aren't very many. I just hope we're instilling strong enough values in them that they'll make sensible decisions along the way.

[cubreporter]

Then she knew what she was doing when the photos were taken according to the article.

[Dat Mon]

There was a time when men would fight duals to the death to defend the honor of their wives, fiancees, or daughters.

Today...would a man fight to the death defending the honor of Paris Hilton?

On the flip side, its not just women...in those days, we didn't need lots of corporate attorneys to do business deals.

A mans word was his honor, men did business deals on a handshake.

[jec41]

They all claim there pride, however few can claim dignity.

[k2blader]

Modesty doesn't just mean the way women dress either. It also includes the words that come out of their mouths. Women swearing is such a huge turn off--it's worse than when guys do it.