A WAR AGAINST WOMEN
After working on this "stuff" for two years, I've learned when I smell something that isn't quite kosher. It all started with Malkin's story about Aqsa Parvez the Toronto teen who was murdered by her father because she refused to wear a head scarf. The other day I did a piece about this new movement to subjugate "Christian" conservative women here in the US. Somehow it all came together in a way I did not expect. DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL
There is a "new" movement of "conservative" "Christian" young women, most of them home-schooled, who are opting out of society, college, and life in general to advocate a stay at home life of chaste modesty until their father (the all knowing 'Godfigure') helps them choose a "Godly" husband who will guide them, children that they are, through life, making the money, the decisions, and generally patting them on their heads like a well behaved dog. This is fine until the husband starts beating her, fooling around, drinking, or dies. Then what is Daddy's Little Girl going to do when she is completely unprepared to face the world and support her children? Welfare?
DADDY'S SPOILED LITTLE GIRL
I am a third generation Daddy's Spoiled Little Girl. My mother and her sisters were. Their mother was. My sister and I, along with all of our female cousins are. There is a huge difference between Daddy's Little Girl and Daddy's Spoiled Little Girl.
Daddy's Spoiled Little Girl is a brat who lives at home until she is married. Even then she may opt to force her new spouse to live near by either in the house or on the 'compound' (as did my mother and her older sister). Daddy's Spoiled Little Girl can go to college and have a career (as did my sister) or live at home and work at being a writer, live off the trust fund, and generally have a blast jetting to NYC twice a month to the Metropolitan Opera and hanging out as a Lobbyist in DC as I did until the trust money rant out. It was fun while it lasted!
Daddy's Little Girl is incapable of going out into the modern world because she has been so sheltered that she does not know what the world is. She is the little helper who gets up early in the AM, does the dishes, laundry, cooks, sews, and generally is an unpaid servant. She prides herself on being frugal because she has no money.
Daddy's Spoiled Little Girl does not know the definition of the word "frugal".
WHY THE ABOVE?
Please keep the above in mind while you are reading about the war on women who do not choose to be home-makers. There is nothing wrong with being a wife and a stay at home mother. BUT - women who choose not to follow this path should not be considered 'sinners', 'harlots', and be required to repent and get married just to find salvation. Ask yourself who is promoting this for American women? Then ask yourself why.
I MUST COMPLEMENT MALKIN
I try to be intellectually honest. As much as I pan Malkin, when I agree with her I do try to admit it. This is one of those times when I agree with her. She has been right on point about the senseless murder of Aqsa Parvez and the press basically ignoring the story here. More from the American Thinker.
“..It seems everyone but the Mainstream Media is talking about the 16-year-old Canadian girl whose father strangled her for refusing to wear the traditional Muslim head scarf. Of course, with friends reporting that Aqsa Parvez often conveyed deep fear of her father and brother's violent reactions to her hijab removal, Muslim PR groups are working extra hard to paint a very different, a very secular picture. By all accounts, Aqsa was a typical new-world teenaged girl - more concerned with music, dancing, makeup, boys and, yes, buying clothes than old-world customs. But her family's disdain for her cultural assimilation ultimately forced her to leave home last week for the safety of a friend's house.
Braving a trip home Monday to collect her belongings, the fear she confided to friend Dominiquia Holmes-Thompson that something "could happen" materialized in the shape of her father. Hours later, Muhammad Parvez called 911 to announce he had killed his daughter, whom police later found lying unconscious on her bedroom floor. When the girl died shortly thereafter, her father was charged with for murder As news spread, the Islamic spin machine quickly switched to rinse cycle in order to allay concerns that the Muslim tradition of "honor killings," prevalent in some unassimilated European communities, had migrated to supposedly-homogeneous North America
Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress urged restraint: "I don't want the public to think that this is really an Islamic issue or an immigrant issue. It is a teenager issue.' And Atiya Ahsan of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women strived to decouple the hijab connection altogether, meanwhile trivializing Aqsa's death: "Teenagers have for centuries been doing battle with their parents over a multitude of different issues, so to make differing views about the hijab a central issue of conflict is a mistake."…”
Braving a trip home Monday to collect her belongings, the fear she confided to friend Dominiquia Holmes-Thompson that something "could happen" materialized in the shape of her father. Hours later, Muhammad Parvez called 911 to announce he had killed his daughter, whom police later found lying unconscious on her bedroom floor. When the girl died shortly thereafter, her father was charged with for murder As news spread, the Islamic spin machine quickly switched to rinse cycle in order to allay concerns that the Muslim tradition of "honor killings," prevalent in some unassimilated European communities, had migrated to supposedly-homogeneous North America
Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress urged restraint: "I don't want the public to think that this is really an Islamic issue or an immigrant issue. It is a teenager issue.' And Atiya Ahsan of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women strived to decouple the hijab connection altogether, meanwhile trivializing Aqsa's death: "Teenagers have for centuries been doing battle with their parents over a multitude of different issues, so to make differing views about the hijab a central issue of conflict is a mistake."…”
PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS
In Palestine there is a war against Christian women who are not covered. At least 40 women have been recently killed because they will not go veiled.
Gates of Vienna
“…On her first day at Basra University this year a man came up to Zeena, a 21-year-old Christian woman, and three other Christian girls and ordered them to cover their heads with a hijab, or Islamic headscarf.
“We didn’t listen to him, and thought he might just be some extremist student representing only himself,” she said. The next day Zeena and two of her friends returned to class with uncovered heads.
This time a man in the black clothes of the Shia militia stopped them at the entrance and took them aside. “He said, ‘We asked you yesterday to wear a hijab, so why are you and your friends not covering your hair?’. He was talking very aggressively and I was scared,” Zeena recalled.
The girls explained that they were Christians and that their faith did not call for headscarves. “He said: ‘Outside this university you are Christian and can do what you want; inside you are not. Next time I want to see you wearing a hijab or I swear to God the three of you will be killed immediately’,” Zeena recalled. Terrified, the girls ran home. They now wear the headscarf all the time.
In the past five months more than 40 women have been murdered and their bodies dumped in the street by militiamen, according to the Basra police chief. Major-General Abdul-Jalil Khalaf said that some of them had been killed alone, others gunned down with their children. One unveiled mother was murdered together with her children aged 6 and 11….”
“We didn’t listen to him, and thought he might just be some extremist student representing only himself,” she said. The next day Zeena and two of her friends returned to class with uncovered heads.
This time a man in the black clothes of the Shia militia stopped them at the entrance and took them aside. “He said, ‘We asked you yesterday to wear a hijab, so why are you and your friends not covering your hair?’. He was talking very aggressively and I was scared,” Zeena recalled.
The girls explained that they were Christians and that their faith did not call for headscarves. “He said: ‘Outside this university you are Christian and can do what you want; inside you are not. Next time I want to see you wearing a hijab or I swear to God the three of you will be killed immediately’,” Zeena recalled. Terrified, the girls ran home. They now wear the headscarf all the time.
In the past five months more than 40 women have been murdered and their bodies dumped in the street by militiamen, according to the Basra police chief. Major-General Abdul-Jalil Khalaf said that some of them had been killed alone, others gunned down with their children. One unveiled mother was murdered together with her children aged 6 and 11….”
MORE BANS IN IRAN
Along this line women in Iran are now banned from wearing boots and hats. Hyscience has this outrageous story.
WHERE ARE THE FEMINISTS
This is the most critical feminist issue today – in the world. But, how many feminist leaders do you hear even mentioning it. Unfortunately many of the card carrying ‘liberal’ feminists aren’t even touching it, why I do not know. Conservatives think ‘feminist’ is the worst four letter word there is. Why? Well, we could get into some serious psycho babble about a few conservative men who aren’t in touch with their masculinity to the point where strong women must terrify them. It takes a very little man (take that as you will) to be terrified by a women of strength. Consequently, after years of belittling feminists, now that conservatives need them, well, forget it!
On Monday I started out with a commentary about John Tanton, Planned Parenthood and Michelle Malkin. I digressed when I discovered a link on the Dawn Patrol’s site. Quite frankly, I do not even approve of Dawn Patrol. But the site Ladies Against Feminism is well over the top.
The big problem is there is a fundamental move within some Catholic churches and protestants to begin what started out as a very good idea, bring some decency and modesty back into a Brittany Spears world where teenage girls are encouraged to dress and act like sluts. There’s nothing wrong with that. I can’t imagine how difficult it is for a parent today, dealing with all the trash clothing. But – you don’t become the Taliban and force young women who live in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA into dressing like something out of the Dark Ages.
ISLAMIC TREATMENT OF WOMEN
I am wondering if we perhaps treated the idea of Sharia and the way women are brutalized as a “Hate Crime” and “Racism” the liberal world, which is quite up to date on other hate crimes, might take notice.
Kyle-Anne Shriver has this American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/12/death_before_burkas_1.htmlpiece that started me to thinking.
“…One year before we met, Michelle had finally summoned the courage to flee with her sons, she says, in the dark of night with only the clothes on their backs. Even allowing for exaggerations, Michelle’s story should be a warning to all who would give even an inch to this evil fanaticism.
When I queried Michelle as to why she did not report the abuse to French authorities, she insisted that once inside the Muslim community, there is no such thing as civil authority. The Muslim men, she maintained, rule with an iron fist, and threaten violent retribution to any woman who tries to go above them to outside authorities. This isn’t just one evil husband we’re talking about; it’s an entire communal structure of oppression.
Down to the nuts and bolts then, I must make this observation. If a Jewish or Christian man beats his wife, or otherwise abuses her, he does so against his religion, and his worship community. When a Muslim man does likewise, he does so in full obedience to the Prophet himself. It’s in the Koran. (There is enough woman-bashing fodder in the Koran for many future columns, but one of the specific admonitions to men to beat their wives is 4:34)
"Good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them."
For any modern soul who doesn't understand the word, "scourge," it means to whip or lash. And people wonder where these barbarians get their crazy ideas. They are in the Koran.
As an American woman, blessed by God and the Constitution, that is all I need to know about Islam. People may worship whoever or whatever they please, and as long as they don't try to blow me up or force me into submission, peace and blessings be upon them….”
Most of my regular readers know I am a big fan of the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) that does an incredible job tracking hate crime, racism, etc. Let’s face it, Sharia is not a “Normal” portion of Islam any more than polygamy is a regular practice of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. If we could get a consensus on targeting the violent treatment of women under Islam as “Hate” I think could go a long way in exposing this treatment to the general public. If nothing else, maybe a few “innocent” women might be prevented from marrying into extreme conditions.
WHERE AM I GOING WITH THIS?
First, I want to state up front that I think parenting is the most difficult job in the world and I don’t wanna do it! I was raised in a family where there was a tradition of women ruling, literally. We were a big, loud bunch of pig headed, stubborn, opinionated, annoying, bone headed, loud mouthed, bunch of people who turned the art of arguing into a spectator sport. We would stomp, slam Bibles, slam doors, and generally be annoying, but don’t let anyone step in between us and start problems. I say this because I think I was raised in the best of both worlds.
My mother’s family was not your typical “Palm Beach” clan. They lived on the other side of the Indian River where there were not as many restrictions on just what could be done around a home (which is now gone). My grandfather had one of the largest independent dairies in Florida from the 1950’s to the 1980’s. He was literally the confident of the very rich and powerful. They came to him. He made a fortune on his own, and in turn spread it around his children while he was alive to complain about what they were doing with it.
My mother and her sisters came of age in the late 1940’s. They were not required to work, go to college or do anything they did not want to do. My mother did hospital volunteer work. Her father suggested she give back the ‘salary’ and he would pay her, which he did. I don’t think my grandmother ever did a day’s work in her life, which consisted of a series of housekeepers until I was two weeks old and Mae came into our life. She remained with my grandparents until their deaths. I think everyone of us still maintain contact with her and absolutely adore her.
My mother and her sisters were raised to be ‘socialites’, which they were. They could and still can host a fund-raiser for hundreds. While living in SC, my mother was repeatedly ask to host one GOP presidential hopeful and candidate after another. With the exception of Lindsey, don’t think she ever really did a political function. My sister and were raised the same way. We were taught there were no boundaries that we could do and be what we wanted to be. We were also raised with a very strong (but not strict) Christian belief and ethic. I say all of this because I am finding this new “Christian” tendency for raising women of servant-hood, submission, and virtue to be rather alarming.
Virtue was installed in my sister and I the old fashioned way. “You go out, fool around, get pregnant and you’re dead.” “Only sluts fool around before they are married.” “You go out, fool around, act like a slut, and you can find another place to live.” “That’s not the way we was raised and that’s not the way you are going to behave.” “Just look at your aunts and your grandmothers, they would be disgusted with you.” “You behave like a slut, have sex outside of marriage, and get pregnant and just kiss your family good-by. You’re never coming back.”
Well, it worked. There was nothing Biblical, gentle, politically correct, or contradictory about it. There was none of this mushy, gushy, shelf-righteous ‘well, Christ said to be women of good character’ about it. They scared the you know what out of us, and our friends Kay and Patti. When the discussion came to modest dress, etc, well my mother would just point out how slutty and trashy someone looked. “If you want to look like trash and have everyone think that’s what you are, go ahead. Just don’t expect your father to pay for it.”
“You want to know about sex? Here’s a book. Read it. If you have questions go ask Miss Effie, she’s a nurse.” And that was the end of the birds and the bees discussion with my mother, save, “Don’t fool around and you won’t get pregnant and I won’t kill you.”
We thought she was serious. Years later during a discussion about it, she thought it was hilarious. “I just didn’t want to be bothered telling you that stuff so I sent you to Miss Ef.” She laughed. “It worked, didn’t it. Don’t you know if either of you were to get pregnant we would have taken care of things and arranged for an adoption?”
Nope. We thought they were serious.
The bottom line here was my parents raised two daughters of “virtue” who were not subject to being subject to their husbands, etc. We were allowed to do and be anything we wanted to be. The only reason I was not allowed to live in the dorm when I went to college was because we lived 20 miles from campus and my father thought it was a foolish waste of good money. It turned out to be a great idea because all the guys wanted a ‘mother’. On any given weekend there was a minimum of about 15 guys in and out of the house for lunch, dinner, a couch to sleep on, etc. None of them brought their girlfriends, so my sister and I always had guys around, for what ever nefarious purpose we could create. (A few still keep in touch).
We had mini-skirts, fishnet stockings, my sister wore bikinis. What-ever was the latest fashion, we had it. There was none of this “modest” gobildy-gook. Our mother was, and is still considered a very “class act” (very hard to follow) who knows how to dress for every occasion.
PUTTING TODAY IN CONTEXT
I was fussing and fuming yesterday as I worked on this article. If I had girls today I would be very annoyed with fashion – then I started thinking back to the late 1960’s.
There was the topless suit.
Remember Punk from the 1970’s?
Topless at the Met
“…The fashions are grouped with their cases by type of tease--bodices, swimsuits, backs, sheer and see-through, legs. Come down the stairs and there you go--topless. Andre Courreges's 1968 turtleneck sweater in black stretch chiffon is see-through for beatniks, a sheer top with a knit turtleneck, worn with black knit slacks. Right next to it is Rudi Gernreich's topless evening gown in black wool knit. They were wearing them in 1970. Look at the designer vintage from the 1960’s and the bare mid-drift….”
Bottom line here – think Star Trek Classic and the outrageous costumes, they were simply fantasy versions of what designers were creating. The fashion as called “Mod” and was invented by Mary Quant.
This lead to hippie fashion, which sometimes was the abject lack there of. Granted bathing suits had yet to achieve today’s extremes. But then there was the abject lack of bathing suits on many of the world’s beaches. Hippy had absolutely nothing to do with “Green” or ecology. It was about drugs, sex, and rock & roll. I remember when we were in Atlanta one day with the parents and my grandmother. A girl was walking down 10th street and Peachtree wearing see through curtains and nothing else. That was life during the Hippy years. Then there was Woodstock and the abject nudity of the situation. (There are a number of sites that offer pictures of this, but I am not linking to them.)
LIFE WITH A MINI SKIRT
I am trying to paint a picture of what life was like in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. In high school during that time frame the situation became so extreme the conservative high school in Seneca, SC was forced to enact laws concerning the wearing of the mini. It was to be no higher than TEN INCHES above the knee. Yep – 10 inches. I usually clocked out about 6 inches. A friend, Karen Sears, was constantly being sent home to change her clothes because her minis were 11 inches above the knee. Today the fashion sites are recommending minis be worn about 4-6 inches above the knee for that “mod” look. That’s not mod, that’s conservative!
They wore hip-huggers with braless halter tops. The navel was in full display, quite often. Like I said, just think Star Trek bimbo and make it street wearable and you have fashions for that era. If we are honest, today’s fashion isn’t that bad – yet. Sure, we’re treated to the occasional Brittany flash, etc. but today is little more than a rehash if the 1960’s. There’s no need for hysteria or throwing the burka on your daughters the way some conservative “Christians” are almost recommending.
I was in college when the "maxi" came out, thank heavens! I swore I would never again wear anything that was shorter than two inches above the ankle, ever again. It has nothing to do with modesty, religion, or virtue. Mini Skirts were fun, but after awhile they became annoying. There is an art to wearing one, learning how to sit, bend over, and just plain stand. It just wasn't worth it!
READ THIS
I found this surfing through “Christian” sites. It is allegedly the letter from a young “Christian” man about what he wants in a virtuous woman. It is really quite alarming. It is straight out of Taliban 101.
“…We realize that girls are primarily stimulated or turned on by "touch."
Did you know that guys are turned on by "sight?" So when you are
"aroused" (sexually awakened) by a guy's "touch," we are in the same
way aroused by mere "sight." Let us explain. When we see girls who are
dressed in a suggestive, revealing, provocative, teasing, tantalizing
manner, our sexual desires are aroused. Our bodies are then affected.
To be absolutely candid, let us give you some examples of what we are
referring to. If you are wearing a blouse that barely meets the waist
of your slacks and some of your skin shows while you are moving around,
or simply while you are walking, sitting, or kneeling, our minds are
geared to wonder what more of your body would look like further
up....This causes our bodies to respond biologically, and suddenly we
are fighting a war in our minds and bodies. And that war of lust is
continuing often long, even hours, after you are gone. We hate this,
because our "righteous man" wants to think pure thoughts....
When you wear low-cut tops which are in any degree revealing, or when
you bend over, and they are revealing, this again causes us big
problems in the flesh. Or if the back is out of your top, we
automatically think that you do not have the undergarment on, and the
Spirit and the flesh begin to fight again. Or when we see any glimpse
of your undergarments, such as straps and the like, we have trouble.
What we are trying to say is this: If it is not for sale, don't
advertise it. We really feel that the still small voice of the Holy
Spirit speaks to you and nudges you when it is too tight, too short,
too low, or too revealing. Will you listen to that voice? For the
Scripture says, "Quench not the Spirit." (1 Thess. 5:19)…
Girls, do you know what we would really like? We would like to come among our Christian sisters and not have to fight and struggle in the flesh. We do not need to have to wrestle in the flesh at church or at church activities. We men, whether young, old, single or married, are faced with this every day among girls of the "world." But we would like to have rest in our Spirit man when we come among Christian girls. After all, doesn't the Scripture tell us to "come out from among the world and be you separate, saith the Lord." (2 Cor. 6:17) It also tells us that "all that is in the world, the lust of the eye, and the lust of the flesh, is not of the Father, but is of the world." (1 John 2:15) We are the church, not the world. We know that people often use the verse, "Man looketh on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the heart," (1 Sam. 16:7) to condone anything they wish to wear. This is one of the most misused/used out-of-context verses in the Bible. Conversely, the fact is, if your heart is pure, your outward appearance will be modest.... Girls can be fashionable and modest at the same time. To be honest, we respect you more when your appearance is modest, as the Scripture commands in 1 Timothy 2:9. We really do not want the kind of girl who dresses provocatively, for we know that if we marry her, she will still be that way in the presence of other men once we are married. We know that we have Christian responsibilites toward girls, too. We must be careful to portray ourselves properly. We must treat you like ladies. If we are really committed Christian guys, we will strive to treat you like Jesus would. After all, you are daughters of God. Thank you, dear Christian sisters, for hearing our hearts on this subject. Once we have conveyed the truth of the matter to you, you become responsible before God for what you do with the truth. We really are "our brother's keeper." (Genesis 4:9.) We know that there is a "cult of conformity" in our generation, but we as Christians "march to the beat of a different drummer." Please, girls, do not say, "I don't care," but help us in these last days to live as close to Jesus as we can. Thank you so much.”
Girls, do you know what we would really like? We would like to come among our Christian sisters and not have to fight and struggle in the flesh. We do not need to have to wrestle in the flesh at church or at church activities. We men, whether young, old, single or married, are faced with this every day among girls of the "world." But we would like to have rest in our Spirit man when we come among Christian girls. After all, doesn't the Scripture tell us to "come out from among the world and be you separate, saith the Lord." (2 Cor. 6:17) It also tells us that "all that is in the world, the lust of the eye, and the lust of the flesh, is not of the Father, but is of the world." (1 John 2:15) We are the church, not the world. We know that people often use the verse, "Man looketh on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the heart," (1 Sam. 16:7) to condone anything they wish to wear. This is one of the most misused/used out-of-context verses in the Bible. Conversely, the fact is, if your heart is pure, your outward appearance will be modest.... Girls can be fashionable and modest at the same time. To be honest, we respect you more when your appearance is modest, as the Scripture commands in 1 Timothy 2:9. We really do not want the kind of girl who dresses provocatively, for we know that if we marry her, she will still be that way in the presence of other men once we are married. We know that we have Christian responsibilites toward girls, too. We must be careful to portray ourselves properly. We must treat you like ladies. If we are really committed Christian guys, we will strive to treat you like Jesus would. After all, you are daughters of God. Thank you, dear Christian sisters, for hearing our hearts on this subject. Once we have conveyed the truth of the matter to you, you become responsible before God for what you do with the truth. We really are "our brother's keeper." (Genesis 4:9.) We know that there is a "cult of conformity" in our generation, but we as Christians "march to the beat of a different drummer." Please, girls, do not say, "I don't care," but help us in these last days to live as close to Jesus as we can. Thank you so much.”
READ THESE COMMENTS
I found these comments about the letter. They are terrifying.
“…My husband and two teenage sons would add even more detail regarding the nature of clothing that men find provocative. May I be honest???? Almost any kind of pants provide a line-drive, eye-view to the pubic area, hips, and buttocks. Any kind of shirt/top/dress that allows the curves of the bust to be accentuated, thought covering the flesh completely, is another enticement. Yes, the exposing of literal flesh is a big struggle, but even the FORM of the female body will attract attention. John Newton once said that a woman should dress in such a way that no one will remember how she was dressed. In other words, dress so that you do nothing to call attention to yourself. For a free booklet on modesty, detailed and thoroughly biblical, please send your name and mailing address to sovereigngracebaptistchurch@gmail.com…”
Or this
“…I am a 36 and married to a very godly man who has faithfully guarded his eyes. Even though we have a solid trusting relationship, I found being around immodest young women at church so distracting and troublesome, especially since I have a chronic heart condition. After trying many churches over 3 years,searching for one that didn't have this "immodesty problem", I felt like giving up. Then the Lord led us to a Mennonite church. The women are all very modest, yet beautifully dressed.
Though I don't agree on all their doctrines, (especially since my husband is in the military) I cannot say how wonderful it is to worship the Lord freely and to fellowship
without worrying how someone else may be a snare to my husband or children.”
Or one from a 18 year old girl.
“…Ok...first off Im an 18 yr old girl who is able to find clothes that are modest, yes it may be hard but I can find them. The guys arent saying that you need to walk around in nun outfits but what they are asking you to do is help them! IT ISNT THEIR FAULT THAT THEY THINK LIKE THAT!!! Its your fault if you are dressing in a way to cause them to stumble. If you still dont believe these guys you need to read "For Young Women Only" by Shaunti Feldhahn and Lisa A. Rice. Really! It opened my eyes.......all the guys asked you to do was not wear low cut blouses, open backed blouses or blouses that are too short so that they show your waist! How difficult is that? Although I do agree with the fact that form fitting jeans just draw attention. As my boyfriend put it, if the jeans are form fitting...theres really no point in even having them on! The only difference between the jeans and your legs is the color. Please think about glorifying God in all you do. Not just with big things like saving sex for marriage but also in getting dressed in the morning. The Bible makes it clear that causing your brother to stumble is a sin. So why do we take so much offense to dressing modestly? You can look cute while still being modest. But trust me....there have been many many polls saying that guys respect modesty. A lot of Christian guys are sick of this but they cant stand up against it because then they'll be called perverts. THEY ARENT! Its like this.....somebody brings in chocolate to a room full of girls and says ok dont look at the chocolate, dont even look like you are looking at the chocolate, and dont even think about touching it, and dont talk about it. And then that person leaves the room with someone else being in charge, and every time you look, talk, think about touching or anything you get into trouble. Well everytime we wear a low cut blouse, tight jeans or a revealing outfit in any way thats what we are doing to the guys around us. Yes, they look away but its hard to forget what you see. And as guys it will end up popping up later in their head or whatever. My boyfriend who is known as an upstanding christian guy struggles with girls being dressed immodestly. Its hard on all guys...I guarentee you more guys notice you then you think, or want. But they dont respect you...if you want respect dress modestly, they may not call you hott...but the word hot is all about outward appearance anyways. Being called hott really isnt a compliment. Now if your called beautiful that is. But if your dressed immodestly you will most likely not be called beautiful. Please think about what your wearing….”
FEMINISTS MUST REPENT!
Read this. In other words, those of us who feel women are equal to men are “sinners” and are not Christians. Interesting. Evidently, even though I pray constantly for forgiveness of my sins, I’ve not truly repented.
“…I am reminded of Sandra-a friend I met in University. Sandra was studying to be a medical doctor. When I met her, she was contemplating becoming a Christian, but was struggling with how to reconcile Christianity with her feminist world-view. Sandra did give her life to Christ, but continued to hold on to feminist beliefs. She even forced her future husband to sign a contract agreeing to stay home half-time should they have children. That was almost fifteen years ago. Today Sandra is a different woman. She is at home with her three children and is delighting in being a wife and a mother. She is increasingly joyful and at peace with submitting to her husband and supporting and encouraging him in leadership in their home and in the church. Why the change? Two reasons. First, Sandra's husband is a godly man who loves and blesses her as a woman. Over the years-as she experienced his love-she began to believe in the goodness of God's pattern. Second, Sandra was willing to face her woundedness, repent of bitterness and unforgiveness, and release her pain to Jesus. She has received significant healing from the assault on her personhood as a woman. And as she has been healed, her heart has grown softer and more eager to obey God's Word….”
MODESTY
They are called “Modesty” fashions. It’s not just “Christian” and Islamic. The same trend is going on with Orthodox and traditional Jewish communities.
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Tznius (HEAD COVERINGS) for the modest young woman
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Cute headcoverings. WHERE THIS LEADS
You know, when you smell a rat, just follow the odor and it usually ends up at Joseph Farah’s doorstep. I’ve been working on this piece for hours. I will tell you what I’ve learned: Bottom line, a goodly amount of this DODO is propagated by a Doug Phillips and his Vision Forum. Phillips is a regular columnist at World Net (Nut) Daily. There is something sick about their practices.
I have a sneaky feeling Phillips would not approve of Episcopalians like me.
“…The tragedy gets worse. Though many of us would firmly stand for the proposition that good doctrine leads to sound living, the fact is that rebellious children, broken homes, and vision-less fathers are every bit as present in the Reformed community as the Dispensational. Even among our most cherished church leaders it has become the exception to find happy, unbroken homes which radiate the love of Jesus, where the children call the parents blessed, where the mother is a content keeper at home, and where the father practices daily family worship. Like “righteous Lot” who stood in the very gates of Sodom vexing daily, but who did nothing about it (and who lost some of his beloved children to the consuming fire which destroyed the city), many men lament and grieve over the state of affairs, but they lack the vision and the courage to reprioritize their lives such that they can cry out for the hearts of their children, communicate a multigenerational vision of faithfulness, and see their households established on the promises of God. Few men have the passion of Job who rose every morning to cry out to God on behalf of his children (Job 1:5).
The mission of The Vision Forum is to address this problem. Our name — The Vision Forum — points to our desire that the Lord would use this work to be a forum for communicating a vision of victory to Christian families. I personally thank the Lord for an outstanding staff of about ten extremely talented individuals, all home school graduates or home schooling parents, united with a common passion for the Biblical family. At the heart of the message we share is a commitment to see the wedding of orthodoxy and orthopraxy among the people of God. Sound doctrine and sound living must come together. We can preach the covenant and the sovereignty of God until we are blue in the face, but if we allow our children to be educated by Canaanites, if we encourage our daughters to pursue a careerist philosophy, if we fail to make our homes economically vital, hospitable centers for love and learning, we are hypocrites. Not surprisingly, the scriptural warning against such hypocrisy is specifically given within the context of the family. If we have not taught our wives and daughters to love children and be “keepers at home” then we are “blasphemers” (Tit. 2); if we have not trained our men to be providers, then we are “worse than infidels” (1 Tim. 5)….”
Phillips is the one pushing this s@*t about “Beautiful Girlhood” The mission of The Vision Forum is to address this problem. Our name — The Vision Forum — points to our desire that the Lord would use this work to be a forum for communicating a vision of victory to Christian families. I personally thank the Lord for an outstanding staff of about ten extremely talented individuals, all home school graduates or home schooling parents, united with a common passion for the Biblical family. At the heart of the message we share is a commitment to see the wedding of orthodoxy and orthopraxy among the people of God. Sound doctrine and sound living must come together. We can preach the covenant and the sovereignty of God until we are blue in the face, but if we allow our children to be educated by Canaanites, if we encourage our daughters to pursue a careerist philosophy, if we fail to make our homes economically vital, hospitable centers for love and learning, we are hypocrites. Not surprisingly, the scriptural warning against such hypocrisy is specifically given within the context of the family. If we have not taught our wives and daughters to love children and be “keepers at home” then we are “blasphemers” (Tit. 2); if we have not trained our men to be providers, then we are “worse than infidels” (1 Tim. 5)….”
“…The Beautiful Girlhood Collection aspires, by the grace of God, to encourage the rebuilding of a culture of virtuous womanhood. In a world that frowns on femininity, that minimizes motherhood, and that belittles the beauty of being a true woman of God, we dare to believe that the biblical vision for girlhood is a glorious vision. It is, in fact — a beautiful vision. It is a vision for purity and contentment, for faith and fortitude, for enthusiasm and industry, for heritage and home, and for joy and friendship. It is a vision so bright and so wonderful that it must be boldly proclaimed. We are here to proclaim it…”
But check out the vision for boys…
“..There is a sacred window of time in a boy’s life when everything is possible: he can rescue the damsel in distress, explore America with Lewis and Clark, or cross the Atlantic with the Pilgrims. Tragically, this window is shrinking because our modern culture is at war with courageous boyhood. Many have forgotten what it means to be a boy and dream the noble dreams of youth... One of our goals is to demonstrate that the skills and experiences which historically made up the life of a boy were God-honoring vehicles for preparing him to be a man. He learns to explore because he is called to take dominion over the earth. He learns to emulate the lives of heroic Christians because he, too, is called to leadership….”
ALL OF THIS REEKS!
All of this reeks of being a cult. Something sick is going on here. Not only is this person a columnist for WND, but his work is denigrating to women. BINGO – Doug Phillips is the son of Howard Phillips.
FULL CIRCLE
And so we are full circle. I started out mentioning Malkin and an article she did about a young woman who was murdered by her father because she refused to wear a head covering. Before it is over, if something akin to reason does not step in, we’re going to be seeing the same thing from “right” minded “Christians” here in this country. It’s coming. Along this line, there is this absolutely rambling commentary about an SPLC outing of some "Kinist" connections. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for some interesting gossip about Phillips. This is all just juicy gossip and good "Christian" infighting, but I've been working on this long enough to know something nasty is going on here.
These people are preaching the old tried and true "barefoot and pregnant" routine. The terrifying thing is it all goes back to home-schooling, of which I have been an ardent advocate as long as the parents are educated and reasonable people. I've spent hours today scrolling through home-schooling sites, blogs, and commentary. We're now going into a second generation home schooling theology where the parents, especially the young mothers, have been so coddled and closeted that they are completely unprepared to face the world around them. They are pulling themselves and their daughters into a dangerous legacy that will inevitably involve abuse. There is this almost "taliban" like determination to strip women of their rights and to put all the responsibility on women for her dress and their actions leading up to and including rape.
I have my theory where all of this is leading, but currently I have no proof. I've spent too much time dealing with sources like this not to recognize something rather unsavory at best. We're also dealing with the beginnings of a 'cult' to put it kindly. These people are conservative. I have a feeling they are Constitutional Party members. Some are Baptist, many are independent Presbyterian with "Little Geneva" connections. I have a feeling more than a few are Ron Paul supporters.
Keep your eyes open and your women liberated!
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