What should be a woman's role in society?

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I don’t want to start an argument, but why can’t a woman just wear modest gym shorts at the gym? Why does she need to wear leggings? Wouldn’t you agree with me that a woman shouldn’t do squats while wearing leggings in front of men? Especially young males that are just hitting puberty with their hormones raging?
Well, I don’t want to start a whole modesty thread, I think we’ve had about a thousand too many of those,…

but…
why can’t men/boys just keep custody of their eyes? If you
re all the gym, why are men even staring at the women? I don’t think yoga pants are particularly a problem. They are exercise wear. I personally don’t really want to see a guy’s hairy legs, but you do at the pool or elsewhere, old guys wearing Bermuda shorts. I simply avert their lives.
Keeping our minds clear of these thoughts is part of modesty too. IMHO.
 
Well, I don’t want to start a whole modesty thread, I think we’ve had about a thousand too many of those,…

but…
why can’t men/boys just keep custody of their eyes?
The vast majority of us do just that.
If youre all the gym, why are men even staring at the women?
Occasionally a man notices a woman he finds attractive, but as far as I’m aware, that goes both ways. There isn’t rampant gawking.
I don’t think yoga pants are particularly a problem. They are exercise wear.
IMHO they aren’t remotely alluring, and they do serve a function in exercising. They do show the contours of a woman’s body, so in that sense they aren’t very modest, however that’s not necessarily attractive. Just as a unitard on a man isn’t particularly attractive to the majority of women. I wouldn’t wear either to Mass, but at the gym or in your own house, I don’t see the problem.
 
a woman’s role in society should be to start asking what men’s role in society should be.

E .j. Perchenough
I got this. Men should hunt, fish, guard the home, and drink beer. Women should handle the ancillary activities. 🤷

ATB
 
As someone who needs to lose a few pounds, I can tell you that shorts do not work at all for exercising. My thighs rub together, which makes the shorts ride up. That’s both incredibly uncomfortable and a lot less modest than yoga pants that stay put 😛
 
Some women should work
Some women should stay at home
Some women should be consecrated religious
Some women should be married
Some women should be mothers
Some women should wear dresses
Some women should wear pants
Some women should wear yoga pants at the gym
Some women should be doctors
Some women should be politicians
Some women should be engineers
Some women should be builders
Some women should serve in the police
Some women should serve in the armed forces
Etc…

A few things women shouldn’t do, which unfortunately have become common in Western society today and even called “women’s rights”:

Have a same-sex relationship
Have sex outside of marriage
Abort any pregancies
Contracept
Participate in prostitution or pornography (noting that many who do so may not really choose this for themselves)
So glad you chose to clarify my existence there
 
The vast majority of us do just that.

Occasionally a man notices a woman he finds attractive, but as far as I’m aware, that goes both ways. There isn’t rampant gawking.

IMHO they aren’t remotely alluring, and they do serve a function in exercising. They do show the contours of a woman’s body, so in that sense they aren’t very modest, however that’s not necessarily attractive. Just as a unitard on a man isn’t particularly attractive to the majority of women. I wouldn’t wear either to Mass, but at the gym or in your own house, I don’t see the problem.
Agreed. I was talking to Johnny.
 
OP, you’ve GOT to get a grip on these sexist, (yes sexist) attitudes before you head off to college. Or else it’s gong to be one , long, arduous, and lonely existence.
It’s called free will. Nobody can MAKE you have dirty thoughts. I don’t care how they dress. And I’m reasonably certain you won’t meet any strippers around the quad. Least not practicing their trade, anyway.
A frank talk with someone (Doctor, Dad, or Spiritual Director) regarding the Catholic view of human sexuality might be in order though.

Also Post # 101.
Excellent Catholic answer. Go with that.
 
People, I can understand where our young friend Johnny comes from. I myself once battled with the hypnotic bounce of a woman’s derrière while exercising at my old gym and I can tell you people the consequences were frightful! Having an increased desire for my wife outside of our prescribed 4-times-a-year calendar became almost unbearable and I had to look at other options for my daily exercise regime. Fortunately I found a local male-exclusive gym, where I have been received companionably by the fraternal membership. After discussing my horrors at the previous gym, they were at first concerned that I may have issue with their regular clientele, but I have assured them that the male buttocks is fine with me. What a blessing it has been to find this place, even outside the classes, I and the members get on companionably; especially in the showers, where some of the guys are nice enough to wash my back for me (a hard to reach place I assure you) and give me a much earned massage to boot. I have signed on for a full year and can see this becoming a lifetime thing. The best thing is, no women! The wife is equally encouraged by my new discovery and has given it her full approval. So my advice to young Johnny is to get out of these sinful dens you people seem to frequent, and join a same-sex establishment such as I have.
 
People, I can understand where our young friend Johnny comes from. I myself once battled with the hypnotic bounce of a woman’s derrière while exercising at my old gym and I can tell you people the consequences were frightful! Having an increased desire for my wife outside of our prescribed 4-times-a-year calendar became almost unbearable and I had to look at other options for my daily exercise regime. Fortunately I found a local male-exclusive gym, where I have been received companionably by the fraternal membership. After discussing my horrors at the previous gym, they were at first concerned that I may have issue with their regular clientele, but I have assured them that the male buttocks is fine with me. What a blessing it has been to find this place, even outside the classes, I and the members get on companionably; especially in the showers, where some of the guys are nice enough to wash my back for me (a hard to reach place I assure you) and give me a much earned massage to boot. I have signed on for a full year and can see this becoming a lifetime thing. The best thing is, no women! The wife is equally encouraged by my new discovery and has given it her full approval. So my advice to young Johnny is to get out of these sinful dens you people seem to frequent, and join a same-sex establishment such as I have.
Do your new friends break out in spontaneous performances of “YMCA”?
 
People, I can understand where our young friend Johnny comes from. I myself once battled with the hypnotic bounce of a woman’s derrière while exercising at my old gym and I can tell you people the consequences were frightful! Having an increased desire for my wife outside of our prescribed 4-times-a-year calendar became almost unbearable and I had to look at other options for my daily exercise regime. Fortunately I found a local male-exclusive gym, where I have been received companionably by the fraternal membership. After discussing my horrors at the previous gym, they were at first concerned that I may have issue with their regular clientele, but I have assured them that the male buttocks is fine with me. What a blessing it has been to find this place, even outside the classes, I and the members get on companionably; especially in the showers, where some of the guys are nice enough to wash my back for me (a hard to reach place I assure you) and give me a much earned massage to boot. I have signed on for a full year and can see this becoming a lifetime thing. The best thing is, no women! The wife is equally encouraged by my new discovery and has given it her full approval. So my advice to young Johnny is to get out of these sinful dens you people seem to frequent, and join a same-sex establishment such as I have.
You had me going…to the point that I started wondering…‘All male? That sounds like it could be…’
 
You had me going…to the point that I started wondering…‘All male? That sounds like it could be…’
That would call for a completely new thread: “Dear CAF, I have turned to going to a gay gym in order to avoid visual temptation at my old coed gym. However, now I realize that I may be a source of visual temptation at my new gym. What to do?”
 
That would call for a completely new thread: “Dear CAF, I have turned to going to a gay gym in order to avoid visual temptation at my old coed gym. However, now I realize that I may be a source of visual temptation at my new gym. What to do?”
:rotfl:
 
That would call for a completely new thread: “Dear CAF, I have turned to going to a gay gym in order to avoid visual temptation at my old coed gym. However, now I realize that I may be a source of visual temptation at my new gym. What to do?”
True story–A now-deceased member of my family once theorized that so many priests are alcoholics because they drink wine every day.
 
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