Top 10 reasons women should dress modestly

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But there is such thing as bringing the truth with love… without love we have nothing. I just saw hate in the way you phrased things…talking about people like they were trash, not your sisters.
Catholic41506 said:
No, I don’t verbalized my anger with my bretheran in front of my child. He knows it is wrong, I don’t have to tell him that.
Telling someone they are not dressed appropriatly isn’t tearing someone down, it is saving their soul.
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Catholic41506 said:
Different circumstances and different time. You don’t have children, do you?
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Yet the universal truth of never judging by appearances has remained all throughout.

Ever read Beauty and the Beast? I’m sure your children could learn a lot more from that (I know I have) than people who place a shallow value on what’s on the outside (regardless if it was for the sake of saving their souls or their social lives).
 
They are my sisters and I would die for each one of them. However, I cannot hide the truth from them or I do them a greater disservice.
 
Lost_Wanderer said:
Yet the universal truth of never judging by appearances has remained all throughout.

Ever read Beauty and the Beast? I’m sure your children could learn a lot more from that (I know I have) than people who place a shallow value on what’s on the outside (regardless if it was for the sake of saving their souls or their social lives).
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Don’t play that card. God knows you don’t judge someone who is poor based on their outward appearence. Sadly, many of the poor dress more modestly than many women of today.
 
Catholic41506 said:
and what gives women the right to corrupt my children by their immodest dress? A six year old doesn’t need to know every nook and cranny of the female body at that age.
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Are YOU teaching your six year old— to look at women in a bad way— based on what they wear… A six year old really doesn’t pay attention --unless someone puts it in his mind.
 
But then you refer to them on their “Trash walks” giving the appearance that you think that they are trash. You know harsh words like that from “brothers” and “sisters” like you use made me suicidal at 12. Telling them that they are in sin is one thing, but referring to people in such a hateful manner is another.
Catholic41506 said:
They are my sisters and I would die for each one of them. However, I cannot hide the truth from them or I do them a greater disservice.
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Walking_Home said:
Are YOU teaching your six year old— to look at women in a bad way— based on what they wear… A six year old really doesn’t pay attention --unless someone puts it in his mind.
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I don’t teach my son to look at women in a bad way. Women do that on their own by the way they dress and conduct themselves. His view of women is based on Our Mother. He see’s his mother covering her head and wearing modest clothing. It is what he has grown up with.
Its funny, many men compliment my wife on her way of dress. Many have simply said “thank you”. She is respected and not looked at like a piece of meat.
 
I have been thinking about it for awhile, but now I am sure that this site is useless. It is full of poison. Let ignorance reign here. I’m done.
 
jobelorocks said:
I have been thinking about it for awhile, but now I am sure that this site is useless. It is full of poison. Let ignorance reign here. I’m done.
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The Church and Her teachings are the truth, whether you want to accept them or not. God be with you.
 
Catholic41506 said:
Different circumstances and different time. You don’t have children, do you?
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I do – and now I have grandchildren. One of the lessons we taught our children was to never look down on another person. To never think less of a person because of their skin color and/or how they looked. This is the same lesson we are now teaching our grandchildren.
 
Catholic41506 said:
I don’t teach my son to look at women in a bad way. Women do that on their own by the way they dress and conduct themselves. His view of women is based on Our Mother. He see’s his mother covering her head and wearing modest clothing. It is what he has grown up with.
Its funny, many men compliment my wife on her way of dress. Many have simply said “thank you”. She is respected and not looked at like a piece of meat.
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Actually to look down on a person is something children learn —from someone else.
 
Catholic41506 said:
Don’t play that card. God knows you don’t judge someone who is poor based on their outward appearence. Sadly, many of the poor dress more modestly than many women of today.
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Oh I will. I play it because it’s true and it’s people like you who are the reason why I hated most of my childhood and high school years.

Rather ironic that you tell people not to judge the poor by their outward appearance yet throw all manner of judgment on women who dress in ways you find offensive.

At least the other hypocrite admitted that he was one.
 
Catholic41506 said:
Why not walk around naked? Society continues to tell us that less clothes are better, to hell with what the Church says.

Society tells us the less clothes the better?? That’s odd, because the last time I checked, waling around naked was ILLEGAL. Obviously public nudity is NOT an acceptable behavior. Wearing shorts on a hot day, however, now that IS acceptable behavior.
Catholic41506;8002256:
Why not start having sex outside of marriage. Sex is fun and it doesn’t matter what my wife says, she’s responsible for her own thoughts and feelings, not me. It doesn’t matter what I do as long as I AM HAPPY. ME, ME, ME. What I want, not what Christ wants or what His Church tells me, it is what makes me happy.
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When it comes to most moral issues, cultural norms don’t matter - we must follow the Church’s standards. However, when it comes to modesty of dress, the church’s only standards are that we follow those of our culture.

It DOES matter what the church tells us. The church tells us to dress according to cultural norms.

What DOES sound like ME ME ME is men telling an entire gender that they have to dress according to each one of their personal standards of modesty.
Trying to shop at Wal Mart tonight with my six year old son and having to constantly shield his eyes from the women who feel it is their right to flaunt their flesh however they want too.
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You shield your 6 year old son’s eyes??? A six year old?? No need for me to say anything else about that.

Also, don’t forget that when men were deprived of seeing women’s bodies, even seeing their ankles caused arousal. Yet men in indigenous tribes who see topless women all day don’t think anything of it.
I am done being charitable. Trash walks around showing their goodies, not a lady. God bless my wife, walking in the 80 degree heat with a full length skirt, long sleaves and a snood. That is a woman!
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Wow, TRASH, really?? What was she wearing, shorts? A tank top??
A man who calls a woman trash because of what she wears… Ok, moving on.

I’m sorry your wife feels like she needs to dress like that in 80 degree weather. She must get horribly hot and uncomfortable.
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Catholic41506 said:
She chooses the long sleeves, not me. She brought us into conformity with a modest dress code, not myself.

The truth hurts, it always has.
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What is “the truth?”

Maybe I am mistaken but i remember you telling me in a message a few months ago that YOU got your wife into changing her style of clothing into more conservative attire. 🤷

Wasn’t your wife wearing a completely strapless wedding dress for your wedding? I’m quite sure I remember those pictures as well… :confused:
 
Catholic41506 said:
No, I don’t verbalized my anger with my bretheran in front of my child. He knows it is wrong, I don’t have to tell him that.
Telling someone they are not dressed appropriatly isn’t tearing someone down, it is saving their soul.
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I think she was referring to the fact that you called another person TRASH.
 
Catholic41506 said:
No, I don’t verbalized my anger with my bretheran in front of my child. He knows it is wrong, I don’t have to tell him that.
Telling someone they are not dressed appropriatly isn’t tearing someone down, it is saving their soul.
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Dressed appropriately to what, YOUR standards? Bc as we have already discussed, the standard of the Church is that of culture’s when it comes to dress.
 
Catholic41506 said:
Different circumstances and different time. You don’t have children, do you?
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Well then we must all be corrupted bc I highly doubt many parents cover up their little kid’s eyes when a lady walks by with her knees exposed.
 
This entire threads makes me wonder how sad it is that such a discussion would even arise. Among nudists, and among cultures in places such as Africa and the South Pacific, immodesty would be a silly concept in the sense that it is being discussed here. I wonder how much of this focus on lust is a product of religion, or what other cultural influences are at play. Our media and advertizing certainly use it to sell products. I don’t know the exact numbers, but the majority of traffic on the internet is sex related. It all seems a bit topsey turvey to me. I started going to a nude beach when I was 16 years old, and became accustomed to nudity. It is simply a more comfortable and natural way to live, if your home of climate is temperate enough.
 
Debora123 said:
Dressed appropriately to what, YOUR standards? Bc as we have already discussed, the standard of the Church is that of culture’s when it comes to dress.
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From Wikipedia:

Catholics are expected to dress modestly,[8] The wearing of a headcovering was for the first time mandated as a universal rule for the Latin Rite by the Code of Canon Law of 1917,[9] which code was abrogated by the advent of the present (1983) Code of Canon Law,.[10] Apart from that, there have never been any “official” guidelines issued by the Catholic Church. But, from time to time the Church hierarchy, and even some popes, have given opinions on various matters; although these “guidelines” are not binding on Catholics, many tradition-minded Catholics find them persuasive.[11] Pope Pius XII stated that women should cover their upper arms and shoulders, that their skirts should cover at least as far as the knee, and the neckline should not reveal anything.[12] Another example is Giuseppe Cardinal Siri of Genoa, who stated that trousers were unacceptable dress for women.[13] Many tradition-minded Catholics have attempted to further expand on this latter standard.[14]Some Catholics have attempted to form cohesive theories of modesty. Sometimes this is from a sociological perspective,[12] while at other times it takes a more systematic, Thomistic approach, combined with the writings of the Church Fathers.[15] Approaches arguing primarily from traditional practices and traditional authorities, such as the saints, can also be found.[16]

The Church also expects men to dress modestly, but the demands are not as strict for them as for women; this is largely because men are often thought to be more inherently susceptible to sexual thoughts.

Pay special attention to the red. Those placed in authority over us have spoken over, and over, and over again about dress. Does the pope really need to declare an infallible statement that should be common sense in order to get people to listen?
If you truly believe that our Church accepts the culture of today, simply read any statement from the Holy Father over the last five years or so. We are continually fighting the culture because it is corrupt.
 
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