IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
I was just watching a video on the lies Purity Culture teaches.
I have a relative who was raised in such a household, and she was in such despair over the whole idea of going from being under her father's thumb to being under her husband's thumb, that she thought as a teenager that she would simply refuse to ever marry. Thank goodness after she was out of the home, she became her own independent person, and felt good enough about things to take the marriage plunge with a good man who doesn't think he owns her.
I'm thinking about all the women in afghanistan, who have been told that they are incapable of being part of the new government. I don't know about you, but I imagine things will be just as hellish for women under the Taliban now, as they were the first time around.
But let's try to focus this post. In many traditional societies, it seems like men are considered too weak to control their own sexuality. It becomes the responsibility of women to never tempt them by looking pretty. No, you got to hide your stuff. All the modesty rules are designed for women. In Orthodox Judaism, a woman can't even SING outside her family, lest it lead a man astray.
I just find this ridiculous. Not only is it grossly unfair to women, laying rules upon us that are impracticle, and even soul-killing, but it treats men as if they have no moral strength. Well I don't accept that. I think men are perfectly capable of, i.e., not raping women who show cleavage.
What do you think?
I have a relative who was raised in such a household, and she was in such despair over the whole idea of going from being under her father's thumb to being under her husband's thumb, that she thought as a teenager that she would simply refuse to ever marry. Thank goodness after she was out of the home, she became her own independent person, and felt good enough about things to take the marriage plunge with a good man who doesn't think he owns her.
I'm thinking about all the women in afghanistan, who have been told that they are incapable of being part of the new government. I don't know about you, but I imagine things will be just as hellish for women under the Taliban now, as they were the first time around.
But let's try to focus this post. In many traditional societies, it seems like men are considered too weak to control their own sexuality. It becomes the responsibility of women to never tempt them by looking pretty. No, you got to hide your stuff. All the modesty rules are designed for women. In Orthodox Judaism, a woman can't even SING outside her family, lest it lead a man astray.
I just find this ridiculous. Not only is it grossly unfair to women, laying rules upon us that are impracticle, and even soul-killing, but it treats men as if they have no moral strength. Well I don't accept that. I think men are perfectly capable of, i.e., not raping women who show cleavage.
What do you think?