Women
In today's society, We have all but lost a realistic view of what a beautiful, successful woman is. Everyone has their own idea of what makes a women beautiful, more then not those ideas include a lot of skin.
First lets talk about the womens rights movement and its impact on modesty.
The women's rights movement began as a quest for equality, within the home, church and government, unfortunately this battle and victory has been used for such purposes that those very women that fought for it would be disgusted at, our ancestors did not fight for the right to an abortion, homosexual marriages, sexual hookups, immodesty or a lack of moral structures, no, they fought against unrealistic boundaries put on women by their cultures, such as not being allowed to vote, own land, have respectable, self supporting jobs, etc. These simple and realistic goals were reached, but unfortunately the battle did not stop there, no the battle has continued till we now have all manners of immorality legal under the guise of "women's rights".
Among other things, the women's rights movement has brought us the ever popular misuse of clothing and the resulting immodesty crisis, and I say misuse because a bra was never meant to be an article of clothing you would see, nor were bellies, bums or lots of skin meant to be public gaulking items. In today's society we have "the more skin, the better" attitude, floating around from the youngest little girl to once respectable age of the older generations.
Are the ultra liberal women solely to blame for this? No, while they did play a big role in our societies version of exceptable, we as women still have the right to choose what we put on in the morning. And even more so, the choice to refrain from joining the crowds of women and girls that provide a daily show for the male population, regardless if they are willing viewers or not.
By our clothing we have actually effectively undone the whole feminist movement, once again lowering ourselves and our bodies to mere objects to be ogled at, and treated as worthless toys. We allowed this to happen, we are not helpless victims to guys, certainly not, if ever women now know how to take care of ourselves, yet when we wake up in the morning, we opt for the short skirt and the midriff baring shirts. Not only punishing ourselves, but also causing much stumbling in the male community, but more about that later.
Where has modesty gone? The self respect and moral structures that caused modesty in the first place have all but disappeared amidst the war of women's rights.
Now, is this to say that women are terrible and should be covered up completely in shapeless garments? No, being clothed tastefully is fine, and showing that we are women is biblical, because Yahweh does not want genders dressing so as you can not see the difference. But, at the same time, we should not be wearing clothing that brings us down to the level of mere sexual objects, trying to sway the world with our bodies.
However, we need to set our standard to what Yahweh has commanded us to. 1st Timothy 2:9, tells us that we are to "adorn ourselves with modest apparel, propriety and moderation".
If a woman is married, she should wear clothing that will bring honor to her husband and family, and cloth herself in a way that will teach her children proper respect for the female body, not that it is something to be displayed.
And the same applies to a single woman, if she is wearing clothes that she would not be caught dead in around her father, brother or respected older male then she should probably find something more suitable, and ultimetly, if you would be ashamed for Yeshua to see you wearing it, then its got to go.
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