FROM Thomas Droleskey at Christ or Chaos:

Who has recommend to [women] short skirts, sleeveless dresses, pants, shorts, and clownish pants suits, and so on?

Not only did women and girls buy and buy and buy the clothing that through the years became gradually shorter and skimpier and tighter and ever more unladylike, thus making the whole program of gradual nakedness a huge success, but something else happened at the same time; the sense of modesty and propriety, which God has instilled into their souls, became gradually more blurred and dim and fuzzy, until in so many it became totally blacked out and dead. They did not, and do not, know what happened to them. By blindly and stupidly following the satanic program of gradual abbreviation of attire, they destroyed in themselves a precious God-given gift–the sense of modesty–so that they have now made themselves incapable of distinguishing between modesty and immodesty, nor do so many of them care to know.

And not only have women destroyed in themselves God’s gift of modesty, but they have destroyed it in their children from their earliest years, so that a whole generation has been brought up without any real understanding of modesty without any desire to possess its beauty.

— Comments —

Stan writes:

I’m by no means a theologian, and it’s been a while since I last read Genesis,  but it seems to me that Mr. Droleskey has got the roles of God and Satan exactly reversed.  Adam and Eve acquired their sense of modesty after eating the forbidden fruit, a “gift” from the Devil.

 Laura writes:

I believe it was shame, not modesty, that came from the devil. The purpose of modesty was to recover the dignity and beauty that were lost in Paradise.

Sean writes:

“Adam and Eve acquired their sense of modesty after eating the forbidden fruit, a “gift” from the Devil.”

Modesty, which is a virtue, is the positive effect of God.  Satan cannot not nor will not instill a positive virtue.  His domain is vice.

Shame is also within the realm of a positive action of God, for without it how would we know that we have made a grave mistake and work our way back to Him?

Lori writes:

Much of the propaganda surrounding the women’s suffrage movement sounded like Droleskey’s remarks. Women were supposedly more pious by nature than men and more nurturing. They would therefore use their votes to protect children and preserve families. Instead women in less than 100 years have used their votes to grant themselves the freedom to kill their children, divorce for no reason, and “marry” each other. Women throughout the world line up each day to do so. God did not instill virtue into women’s souls. The FEAR of God instills virtue into women’s souls.

Laura writes:

I don’t see how Dr. Droleskey’s remarks were similar to the suffragette view you mention. God instills the capacity for virtue in women — and the capacity to reject it. I think that’s all Dr. Droleskey meant. He didn’t say anything about the superiority of women. (As an aside, women are more nurturing than men. Nurturance isn’t a political kind of thing.)

Sean writes:

Whether by fear of or love of God, both work just fine. In our final end one remains.

Buck writes:

Saturday, I went with friends to help them pick up a Christmas tree. We loaded it, then went into Montgomery Mall, a higher-end assortment of stores in a high-income area of the county. I followed my friend in and out of several stores. She was on a shopping mission. She bought gifts then bought herself a dress. She was wearing pants. I surveyed the crowd. In two hours, in a mall crowded with thousands of shoppers, I saw not one dress or skirt. There might have been behind counters, but I saw none. I mentioned to Debbie that not one female was wearing a dress. She just looked at me: “Duh.” At one point she mocked a woman wearing black spandex pants, high heels, a short-waisted white fur coat, a blond wig, and enough makeup for five faces. The woman had to be eighty years old. That was sad. An old guy, who appeared to be in pain, could barely keep up with her.

Steve from the Gold Coast writes:

When Dr Droleskey observes that in many of today’s young women the sense of modesty and propriety has become “totally blacked out and dead” it may, at first blush, seem somewhat harsh – but surely not so when you behold this (Warning: Indecent Photo) of several decades of “You Go Girl-ism” celebrating any and all displays of stupidity, selfishness  and vulgarity when carried out by women:

“Blacked out and dead” seems a pretty fair statement to me in all the circumstances.

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