In my experience it is mostly men and women with little contact with other women who have the Madonna/whore complex. I think its because women can sometimes be seen as this mysterious ‘other’, almost like a different species. People are scared of what they do not know. It might seem silly to apply this to men and women but i think it is true to an extent.
Hahah!
Sadly enough, this is true.
Well, I’m not an iconoclast, that’s for sure.
Now you wouldn’t be trying to flummox me with flummery, would you?Oh yes, and I just love how you associate something that God saw that was good during the creation with the age of moral depravity such as the end-times. Really, your materialist understanding of physical appearances is enlightening.
I’m almost sure she will drown in THAT swimsuit.
It’s been fun. You did not lack any charity, and I apologize to you if I did. Things can get a little frustrating after 900+ posts.
I feel the opposite way. I look you skimpy the outfits that young teenagers are wearing and it makes me sad and I feel sorry that my daughter and sons are exposed to it. My son went to prom his junior and senior year and I was shocked at his prom dates dresses. One girl had a very low cut, short dress with no back. My son was telling me how beautiful she looked. Some shorts are as short as bikini bottoms, they show their bellies and they are all over my boys.I would not wear one in the 50’s because they were not modest back then. But I am thankful to the women who stood up and wore them and cleared the way for the rest of us.
I really can’t let the fact that there are some perverts out there govern the way I live my life. If it’s hot, I’m going to wear shorts. If I’m going to the beach, I’m going to wear a bikini. If I don’t feel like wearing shoes, I will wear sandals. There may be pervs out there who will lust over legs, a bikini, or feet. Can’t please everyone.
LOL. I compete in powerlifting. I bench 175lb raw and 245 with a bench shirt.
Good to hear he thought his date looked beautiful and didn’t refer to her as a skank or anything less.
I’m not real smart when it comes to men but I am learning from my mistakes.
I do teach them to respect women and I teach my daughter to respect herself by dressing appropriately. Let me put it this way, I am too young to be a grandmother.
I would disagree with this here. If a man is a pervert and has an impure heart, that’s on him. Covering up more won’t change his heart or make him pure. It is not solving the problem.
True, but we cannot allow this to get us down.
I agree with much of what you say above. I think the internet makes access to everything very easy. However, you can easily lock out unsuitable sites for your kids and even adjut your security settings so you do not accidentally go to sites you do not want to go to. The best way I suppose is to teach our kids well so they are armed and informed to try to make good decisions when they grow up in every aspect of their lives.
We probably will never agree on this. What I see is a society obsessed with sex. Marriage is being attacked and our children corrupted. There are men and women in society both sides need to make changes for things to get better. You can’t blame it all on the men.
I don’t blame the plight of a “sex is casual” society all on men. We are talking about 2 separate things, or perhaps you misunderstood my point.
I just see them linked together. If the person wasn’t flashing his money all over town then the thief wouldn’t have targeted him. It is not the persons fault that he was robbed but he would still have the money if he had put it in the bank.
Right, so the rich person should be careful with his money for his OWN sake, not for the sake of trying to convert the thief into a good person. It doesn’t work out that way, and it doesn’t change that person’s HEART.
No. The Catholic basis for modesty is love, not “respect for HERSELF”. A woman should dress modestly out of love for God and His children, period. The moral basis for all our acts is love. We pursue truth and seek to do the good, period.
**We must respect ourselves and love ourselves before we are capable of loving others. **