Yes, nothing wrong with women vets or women engineers either. There seems to a prevailing sentiment around here that if a woman in not a wife or a nun then she must be in sin. I will talk to my spiritual director to get this cleared up.
Remember your own words, O Off-Topic One, and stop posting about relations between men and women from the 1950s in your wonderbroad idyllic community when the OP is wondering about the moral permissibility of women wearing pants etc. now.
The topic is far more narrow than that. Furthermore, if you make an appeal to a historical time period and history generally, you are not allowed to censure other posters for pointing out your historical inaccuracies.
The “current problem” you mentioned is irrelevant to the OP.
This source is very clearly not in line with the Magisterium.
…and he would already be married. Oh well.As for “romance”, I’d probably fall far more for a good Catholic guy who could replace cattle prolapses and yet be gentle enough to deliver lambs…I always say that if he’d wrap the lambs in his coat before bringing them into the house, with himself in short sleeves when it’s 2 degrees outside, I’d know he was a great pick!
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). Without trying to condemn other women who really enjoy applying makeup, to me it can very easily seem clownish, though I’ve seen techniques for a ‘natural’ look that are lovely. Don’t worry about your appearance; if you are as clean and healthy as can be expected, your face is probably just fine, and confidence is very attractive. I see femininity as being more about modesty, simplicity and honesty than “prettiness”.I think this is much more than women wearing pants. This is about women who are also in non-traditional fields of work and do not fit the stereotypical notion of femininity. Either looks-obsessed or in the Christian world (both Protestant and Catholic) a traditional homeschooling, head covering wearing, jumper wearing,stay-at-home wife and mother of 10. I am not bashing those who do fit that description but there seems to be an expectation that all women are supposed to fit that. I have encountered that in the Evangelical world and I seem to be encountering that here as well.
I don’t see anything wrong with it. As a male I sometimes see the whole feminine make up, jewelry, nails, hair thing a bit silly.Greetings!
I am a young college student and I was wondering about something that actually hasn’t really bothered me…but I guess what I am wondering if my position is reasonable?
I have never been really into feminine anything. I could care less about my nails (which are actually super short…I bite them…) and my hair is always only in a very simple ponytail. I wear very modest dresses or skirts and a veil to Mass. I will not wear dresses/skirts otherwise, except for very formal things like job interviews and awards receptions. Never wore makeup.
Outside of church, I wear modest, full-cut women’s jeans and again, very modest shirts, like polos, etc. I wear steel-toed leather ankle-high livestock-work boots normally…or rubber chore boots if I am mucking…
Never ever did tea parties or played with dolls. I actually don’t like the color pink. Not really a flowery person either.
The thing is, even if I loved these things, they’d be very impractical for my position in life. I am a prevet student and work with livestock and large animal vets regularly. I have always felt a calling to be a livestock vet and I deeply enjoy every minute of it (even when it isn’t so pleasant). This is some of what I do or help with- there is absolutely no way anything but pants would work: [warning a bit graphic] palpating cows (involves sticking your whole arm into the cow’s rectum to feel for her uterus and ovaries below, in order to determine pregnancy and sometimes stages in estrus), surgically castrating bulls and lambs, doing lameness exams on horses, artifically inseminating sheep, going inside a ewe or cow or mare in labor to reposition a dystocia baby so it can be delivered safely, replacing vaginal and uterine prolapses, etc. All very messy, potentially dangerous work, and more often than not, you are holding an animal’s head or leg in between your legs (ever watched a farrier work on horses?).
Not to mention, most of the vets I am working with are guys, and so are many of the farmers. They are wonderful and very respectful. I act ladylike but certainly tough enough to do what needs to be done, and I can easily establish rapport and respect.
Is it wrong to questionable to feel no desire whatsoever for feminine this and that? Don’t get me wrong- I am glad to be female, and I personally think it is very possible to be a true Catholic lady and imitate our Lady- and still wear Carrhart’s and wrestle cattle (kindly, of course).
Or am I getting it all wrong?
Pax et bonum.
I don’t mind style but I am very practical and don’t mind females who are the same way.Come on guys, all three of you need to take a step back. This question by the OP is not merely about morality. There are number of decisions we can make in our lives that are morally neutral. These morally neutral decisions put us in situations that are sometimes more stressful and could lead us to sin.
