Posted on 02/25/2010 11:10:42 AM PST by ezfindit
Every time I walk through the mall I feel this stab of pain in my gut. It also happens in Target, Wal-Mart, the doctor’s office, the grocery store; it even happens in church. I don’t need medication for this pain. It’s not a disease – it’s grief. I’m mourning the death of modesty.
Last week I read the most perfect definition of modesty on the website for the Archdiocese of Washington. Msgr. Charles Pope wrote that “modesty is reverence for mystery.” I can’t imagine a better way to define it. And sadly, in our culture, the mystery is GONE. And with it has gone all reverence, dignity, and respect.
I’m just so sick of seeing women “on display” everywhere I go. It’s inescapable and it’s gotten trashy. I feel sorry for men today – at least the men who are attempting to be gentlemen. Men are visual creatures by design, and now the poor guys can hardly raise their eyes off their shoes without being confronted by half-naked women they’re then not supposed to look at. It’s more than inconsiderate; it’s irresponsible and disrespectful.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativedatingsite.com ...
For every one of those there are 1,000,000 who are showing stuff no one wants to see.
Yes, I’ve been conducting similar research and would like to see more.
Are we Witnessing the Death of Modesty?
Seriously, if you have to ask, you haven’t been paying attention for the last fifty or so years. It’s called the cultural revolution.
Yep!
Tell me about it. The hardest parenting we had to do was to convince our two daughters they didn't want to dress like all the others dressed like sluts.
And if you happen to look....as if a man wouldn't look at the young lady you posted the pic of...you'll get the requisite, "What're YOU looking at creep?!"
Of course, my answer is always, "I'm looking at exactly what you want me and every man out here to be looking at, you skank."
HB 4350 0r is it 4530?
Would bring “go ahead and have sex” to our kindergartens.
If you won’t fight for your kids, this country is doomed
As a man I don’t mind this
I enjoy running with my shirt off during my 7-mile jogs in the sunny afternoon...... I got the body for it(with pictures to prove it)....
in liberal Austin, the females are checking me out and it’s a great ego boost to look as good as do at my age.
I apologize to No ONE!!!
Does she use glue to hold them up?
Or do those jeans like it so much they hang on by themselves?
“hough” in NC is usually pronounced “huff”. Very odd.
That brings to mind Overfelt High School in San Jose — their football team wasn't all that great but there was clearly good reason for their cheerleaders to be 'over-felt' girls.
No offense to the writer of this article. I agree that a return to politeness and modesty would be a great thing for society. But the sad truth, in my opinion, is that modesty has not only died, but it’s been dead for many, many years, having been carried into that cold earth by pallbearers Lenny Bruce, Larry Flynt, George Carlin, Sam Peckinpah and Bob Guichionne.
However, free societies sometimes experience this kind of excess. Elizabethian England, with its drunken excess and armies of bastard children, led eventually to Victorian England... which has led to modern England.
The fact that we’re disgusted and willing to speak out in itself means that change is coming. My grandchildren will think of my generation as barbarians. As well they should.
Not by the people that were complaining. Chances are they were transplants. :-)
So, you’re a slut. too?
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