So how should we teach modesty?

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I read it I just wan’t really sure how to reply. Will look through more later when it’s not 5am.

Any chance you have a link to the appropriate passages in the good doctor?
 
nuntym said:
+JMJ+

:banghead: And why oh WHY do people here keep on harping about modesty as merely clothing?! Goodness cannot you lot read some St Thomas Aquinas or even your own Catechism?

CCC 2521 Purity requires modesty, an integral part of temperance. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity to whose sensitivity it bears witness. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in conformity with the dignity of persons and their solidarity.

Did anyone even read the post I made earlier?

Bah.
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Indeed, one needs to be “modest” **in one’s skin, ** and not just by shrouding the skin.

ICXC NIKA
 
Sarcelle said:
I am sure I have mentioned this before, but my cousin attends an EF mass and.walks home.after. Sometime she forgets to take off her chapel veil, sometimes whe does not. She is dressed in calf.length dress suitable for the mass. Without fail.she encounters men who will leer or cat call her. Somehow she is made to feel responsible for the men’s behavior. So if she is dressed immodestly and men leer at her she is held responsible, if she dresses modestly, there are men out there who.seem to get off on degrading modestly dressed women and somehow it still is her fault.

I know this because she told me that whenever she complains about being harrassed to others they blame her. This is what is meant by despair. No matter what you do you are still held responsible for the behavior of someone you have no control over.

By no means is this a defense of immodesty. I very much believe in modesty and both men and women have a duty to observe it. What I object to is the notion that women are.solely held responsible for the boorish behavior of some men.
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I think anyone is condoning the boorish behavior of men. Each one of us is responsible for our own behavior.
 
Cone said:
I think anyone is condoning the boorish behavior of men. Each one of us is responsible for our own behavior.
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That should read “I DON’T think anyone is condoning . . .” I was unable to edit the error.
 
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