{"id":149575,"date":"2025-03-10T09:51:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/?p=149575"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:29:31","slug":"women-should-not-wear-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/2025\/03\/women-should-not-wear-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Should Not Wear Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_149601\" style=\"width: 368px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/van-gogh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149601\" class=\"wp-image-149601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/van-gogh-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/van-gogh-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/van-gogh-881x1024.jpg 881w, https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/van-gogh-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/van-gogh-768x892.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/van-gogh.jpg 1033w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Peasant Woman Gleaning, Van Gogh<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"first\"><b>FROM <\/b>a 1960 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.traditioninaction.org\/religious\/n054rp_WomensDress.htm\">pastoral letter by Cardinal Giuseppe Siri<\/a> on the psychological and cultural effects of women wearing pants:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In fact, as relations between the two sexes unfold with time\u2019s passing, an instinct of mutual attraction becomes predominant. The essential base of this attraction is a difference between the two sexes that is made possible only by the fact that one complements the other. If, then, this difference becomes less marked because one of its major external signs is eliminated, and because the normal psychological structure is weakened, then a fundamental factor in the relation changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The problem goes even further. Chronologically, the mutual attraction between the sexes is naturally preceded by that sense of shame that restrains the rising of the primary instincts, imposes respect for one another, and tends to elevate the mutual esteem and a salutary fear to a higher level regarding those instincts, which otherwise would push forward to uncontrolled acts. To change the clothing \u2013 which by its difference reveals and maintains the limits of nature and its natural defenses \u2013 levels such distinctions and helps to diminish the vital defenses of the sense of shame.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">At the very least it obstructs that sense. And when this sense of shame is absent because of some obstacle or impediment, then the relations between men and women degrade into pure sensuality, devoid of all mutual respect or esteem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Experience teaches us that when the woman is de-feminized, then defenses are undermined and weakness increases.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that his concern is not simply with modesty, but with differentiation between the sexes. Yes, women can style pants in a feminine way, but the custom overall creates sameness, not difference, and allows a range of movement that is unfeminine. Without this differentiation, romance and the motivation to sacrifice for family weakens.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Siri&#8217;s profound insights have overwhelmingly proven true. Or to quote the son of a friend, &#8220;Mom, nobody gets married anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FROM a 1960 pastoral letter by Cardinal Giuseppe Siri on the psychological and cultural effects of women wearing pants: In fact, as relations between the two sexes unfold with time\u2019s passing, an instinct of mutual attraction becomes predominant. The essential base of this attraction is a difference between the two sexes that is made possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149602,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149575\/revisions\/149602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}