Is it a sin for women to wear pants?

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I think women’s motives come into it.
For example there’s many feminine women who alternate wearing dresses with wearing flattering pants,especially in the winter seasons or for elderly women.
On the other hand there are also women who want to get rid off all differences of the sexes and want to just be like men and there’s women like that in our parliament etc…

Personally I prefer skirt/dress but will also wear nice jeans without issue.
 
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Rozellelily said:
And on the otherhand,look at Samoans for example-all the women and men wear “skirts”.
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In World War One, the kilt-clad Scottish regiments were known to the German troops as “the ladies from Hell.”

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Rozellelily said:
On the other hand there are also women who want to get rid off all differences of the sexes and want to just be like men and there’s women like that in our parliament etc…
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Do you hinestly believe this is a consideration women take when they are getting dressed in the morning? I have been around a while and I never once considered that when I was putting on a pair of pants, for heaven sakes. I seriously doubt anybody I have ever known considered that, either . I’m wondering where you live?
 
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In World War One, the kilt-clad Scottish regiments were known to the German troops as “the ladies from Hell.”
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sidnote: WWI was also why they stopped going into battle in kilts: no way to get sufficient protection from nerve gas . . .
 
dochawk said:
sidnote: WWI was also why they stopped going into battle in kilts: no way to get sufficient protection from nerve gas . . .
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Poppycock, they just needed to upgrade kilts to be sufficient protection against mustard gas. 😛
 
My motivation for not wearing a skirt or dress are that I feel I do not look good in them because my legs are ugly. It’s not like I want to be a man.

I am not nor will I ever dress in pants because I am trying to be a man. I think that most women who dress in slacks are not trying to be men.
 
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Good advice from our friend Deacon Jeff:
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What are your thoughts on women dressing modestly? Traditional Catholicism
I don’t care what other people wear, not ever, and people shouldn’t much care what I or anyone else thinks about what they wear IMHO. If a girl wants to dress modestly (whatever that means and it certainly means different things to different people in different places), I say “bully” for you. If a girl dresses in a way that some people might consider immodest, I think those “some people” need to learn to keep custody of their own eyes. No, I don’t think women should wear only skirts and dres…
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How utterly arbitrary. Why don’t all the men wear robes as Christ and the apostles did? What is this modernist heresy of pants!!?

This isn’t Catholicism. This is a great example of some segments of “traditionalist” Catholics equating Catholic tradition with the arbitrary, secular cultural norms of 1950 America.
 
What would a good reason be to you?

I wear jeans to mass all the time. I’m not imitating a man (that is ludicrous) nor do I need to wear them for my job. They are just super comfortable and easier to manage when my kids are constantly on the go.
 
twf said:
How utterly arbitrary. Why don’t all the men wear robes as Christ and the apostles did? What is this modernist heresy of pants!!?
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Hmm . . . I wonder what the judge will say when I show up like the next week?

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twf said:
This isn’t Catholicism. This is a great example of some segments of “traditionalist” Catholics
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I completely agree. I grew up in this type of tradition for most of my childhood. I will not step back into that community ever again.
I wear pants. I have a College and Masters degree. And I work and could be financially independent if I wanted. Massive sinner according to the traditionalists.
Way to turn off people from the church.
 
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I think you have misunderstood what I was saying.
I wear pants too and am not at all advocating a “rigid position” for women to only wear dresses (unless they themselves had chose to).

At the same time though,can it really be denied that there is a section of women who are wanting to become more like men?
You asked where I live-I live in Australia but am not of Australia background and I’m not referring necessarily to women down at the local shops but to some vocal women in the “public eye” -eg:Penny Wong,Marise Payne,Christine Forster,Ruby Rose,Hannah Gatsby etc…

In the suburbs most women are not like this but when you live or work in the city you see women with this mentality and of course the issue is larger than just about pants.

It is beyond pants and a whole mentality issue that usually comes with other things too like acceptance of gay marriage,support of abortions (for any reason),acceptance of sperm donors/ivf,the belief that having a baby is a “right” regardless of relationship circumstances,support of feminism (the extreme kind) etc…
 
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Does she talk about Our Lady appearing in the traditional “trousers” of Vietnamese women? This tired old argument is very Western-centric in a Church that is increasingly global.
 
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…Not wanting to be men.
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Yeah that’s a bit debatable because while they are lesbians “presenting like men” seems to come part in parcel with some lesbians.
There are lesbians also who don’t have this androgynous/male persona.
The ones that do-whether Ellen DeGeneres or certain lesbian sports women etc-seem to be more comfortable dressing/acting in a male like manner.

They may not technically want to become a man (ie:sex change) but they do also reject identifying with what’s traditionally feminine.

I’m just saying there is some of this in general society.
Clearly it doesn’t really apply to Catholic women.
 
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I completely agree with you.
I also for the most part don’t wear short skirts/dress because I don’t love my legs but as I get older I don’t care as much and will wear something if I like it even if the colour/style/length doesn’t “suit” me.
 
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