I found this article surfing Twitter (I don’t have a Twitter account and won’t be getting one). I think it’s relevant in this day and age, especially how purity culture and dualism have infected how Catholics think about sex and marriage. Purity culture is NOT Catholic but in infestation of puritanical Protestantism. The author isn’t … Continue reading From Ezer Rising: Women Are Not Like Ketchup Packets
Remember, it’s always the girl’s fault. Dress shaming a child all in the name of purity and modesty. Being female apparently gives license to men and authorities to hurt us ladies and excuse it under the excuse of “protection.” I call BS. (I get the reason for dress codes but a five year old child … Continue reading Dad Delivers Perfect Response to Kindergarten Dress-Shaming His Little Girl: Read His Viral Letter
I started this as a reply to geoffhorswood on my last post, lost my reply after I went to look something up, and then decided to turn it into a post to give myself more space. First, I think the big issue is that modesty and dress standards seen to be inordinately focused on girls … Continue reading Boys and Girls Shouldn’t Be So Modest
Yes, the title is provocative but it’s also true. Two, no, three different blog posts I read on WordPress Reader TODAY have mentioned modesty and how girls dress. Girls not even teens but prepubescent girls. The first post was under the Catholic tag and was about modesty. Anytime religion or faith enters into a discussion … Continue reading Girls Are Sex Objects (And You Better Treat Them That Way)
I had to write this out with paper and own because I was in such a bad headspace earlier. I write this in just over an hour with several crying jags and moments of extreme anger that resulted with me hitting myself. Like I said, not a good headspace. Today is one of my bad … Continue reading Writing A Bad Day
This post on Darcy’s Heartstrings is a wonderful exploration of the fact that modesty teachings also hurt men. I’m glad there are people out there who recognize this and are pointing it out. http://darcysheartstirrings.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-modesty-teachings-hurt-men-too.html I bring all these things up (this post and the previous) because they can be part of the multitude of reasons … Continue reading Follow up: Men Get Hurt by Modesty too
Because you know everytime a man sins it’s a woman’s fault. Especially when it comes to modesty, purity, dress, sex, etc. The link here from Wordgazer’s Words is so spot on about how (in this case) evangelicals (and Catholics do it to) misinteprete Scripture to blame women when men lust after them. She points out … Continue reading Modesty and the Catholic/Christian Need to Blame Women
I finally get to go back on my medication. I went to the doctor this morning and found out that I should have been able to pick up the next phase in my medication but it wasn’t made clear to me. It totally sucked to find that out. It also sucked to find out that … Continue reading Darkness and Light
As the title says, depression sucks. I’m stuck in a spiral, out of control, everything is getting worse world where no one even notices that I’m hurting or refuses to acknowledge it or want me to hide everything I feel because making them feel bad is the unforgivable sin. I’m too fat. Jeans I only … Continue reading Depression Sucks
Having come across so many radical traditionalists in my time on CAF and even one or two in real life, I thought I’d come up with a set of diagnostic criteria for a radical traditionalist, not unlike the diagnostic criteria in the DSM-IV for psychologists and psychiatrists. This isn’t perfect and I know I probably … Continue reading Signs/Symptoms of a Radical Traditionalist
There are people out there (i.e. the Internet) that think they have the authority to dictate how other people live their lives. I find this especially true on CAF (Catholic Answers Forums in the Traditional Catholicism forum and in the Liturgy forum and the Spirituality forum). Since almost all of the posters are LAY people … Continue reading You Do Not Have Authority (But You Certainly Act Like a Nut)
Discussion this week: Modesty and how does it relate to men and women Have at it. Continue reading Discussion this week: Modesty and how does it relate to men and women
So I spend time on Catholic Answers Forums. While there are a few sub-forums that I don’t visit on purpose or that I am not interested in, the Traditional Catholicism sub-forum is one I read to help understand people who make claims that sound “more Catholic than the Pope” especially about things like dress, Mass … Continue reading Dress Code Dictators
I saw this on a thread and thought it appropriate to the whole pants/skirts debate. You know it seems that some people tend to think that others should dress to please them and that going to Mass should be a fashion statement. I believe that God does not look at how expensive our clotting is, … Continue reading One More Item About Pants vs. Skirts
So I frequent a particular Catholic forum that, recently, has gone over the deep end in some parts. Pants vs. skirts were the topic of several threads. The conclusion of some women: women MUST dress in skirts/dresses or they are being MEN and that MEN are ANIMALS who can’t control themselves. The thing is the … Continue reading Pants or Skirts, Pride, Salvation by Knowledge
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