Repurposed from my comment under Dalrock’s post “Cross Dressing Snuck Up in Our Blind Spot”. The fundamental issue of restricting men’s clothes from women is about whether or not it is acceptable for men (the heads of society) to exclude women. And the answer from everyone (but most egregiously from Christians) is: “No.” These comments […]
There is a lot to say on the topic of the way Christian women clothe themselves, but before I get into the whys, shoulds, and should nots, I want to relate what I have seen lately. This weekend I had the chance to observe the attendees of the Passion Conference 2015. It’s a sort of […]
Before we talk about pants and what should cover the lower body, we must start at the head. I’ve written several posts on women wearing pants, and how that custom has weakened and blurred the distinctions between men and women in the Western World. I stand by most of what I wrote in those posts, yet […]
Originally, cheerleaders were men. That’s Jimmy Stewart and his cheer squad, third from the right. Notice the terms: “leader”, and, “team”, and “squad”. These are manly terms. Notice the dress: pants, shirts, sweaters, ties. Manly dress. In 1923, at the University of Minnesota, women were admitted into cheerleading. I’m sure they asked themselves, “What could be the […]
Caspar wrote: Oh, and rock music. Rock musicians are effeminate (long hair, high voices, prancing and mincing on stage in flamboyant costumes or skinny jeans, singing love songs, stroking their phallic guitars), all designed to stoke women into a sexual frenzy. This reminded me of a post I never got around to writing. One of […]
Ryder commented: This [CC: women in bawdy forms of men’s dress] is one of those things that, once you see it, you see it everywhere. How do we know the legs in this photo belong to kick-ass girls on the job site? Because they’re wearing skin-tight pants. It brought me joy to read. To help […]
Tim Finnegan writes: I think the question of what women ought not to wear will get answered when we answer the question of where women ought not to go. I think if we find a location/activity that is exclusive to men, then the clothing which is designed for that location/activity will be what women ought […]
In a follow-up comment to my post “But Pants Aren’t in the Bible!” I asked a simple question: “Blue jeans, tee shirt, ball cap, sneakers. Whose outfit is this?” Derek didn’t get it. Instead of answering the question he tried to be cute: Wool socks, snow boots, heavy winter coat. Who’s outfit is this? But I pressed […]
Some people are laboring under the delusion that there exists a continuum upon which modesty slides; that on one end there is attractiveness, and on the other end there is immodesty, and on the other end there is unattractiveness, and on the other end there is gaudiness… If you have figured out that we have too […]
If anyone doubts that the choice to wear immodest clothing is made knowing they are immodest, then let me put Of Pants and Passions in the light of Sacred Cowgirls, and make my riddle plain. Cowboy clothes are impractical for everything except being a cowboy, and even that allowance is suspect. A good pair of […]
Things that We have Heard and Known 