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"In essence, a culture that respects a specifically female type of modesty is one that regulates and informs the relation between the sexes in a nuanced--not significantly, in a legislated--way. Women who dress and act `modestly' conduct themselves in ways that shroud their sexuality in mystery. They live in a way that makes womanliness more a transcendent, implicit quality than a crude, explicit quality...It is a respect for this `power within' that once made it impossible for men to view women merely as sexual objects. Rather, women became something deeper, more elemental; possessors of a deep and wondrous secret that is revealed only to the one who proves himself deserving of her." (Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty, (New York, The Free Press, 1999) p.97)
"In essence, a culture that respects a specifically female type of modesty is one that regulates and informs the relation between the sexes in a nuanced--not significantly, in a legislated--way. Women who dress and act `modestly' conduct themselves in ways that shroud their sexuality in mystery. They live in a way that makes womanliness more a transcendent, implicit quality than a crude, explicit quality...It is a respect for this `power within' that once made it impossible for men to view women merely as sexual objects. Rather, women became something deeper, more elemental; possessors of a deep and wondrous secret that is revealed only to the one who proves himself deserving of her." (Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty, (New York, The Free Press, 1999) p.97)
The finger woulda worked better...christ on a crutch man thats one step from a burka
"In essence, a culture that respects a specifically female type of modesty is one that regulates and informs the relation between the sexes in a nuanced--not significantly, in a legislated--way. Women who dress and act `modestly' conduct themselves in ways that shroud their sexuality in mystery. They live in a way that makes womanliness more a transcendent, implicit quality than a crude, explicit quality...It is a respect for this `power within' that once made it impossible for men to view women merely as sexual objects. Rather, women became something deeper, more elemental; possessors of a deep and wondrous secret that is revealed only to the one who proves himself deserving of her." (Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty, (New York, The Free Press, 1999) p.97)
**** modesty.
I'd run around naked if I could...but I can't...because U-ta-ha is cold...
not really because it's cold, but because I'm vain, too.
I WAS BORN (it took me four tries to type born by the way... ) NAKED COLD AND ALONE, AND GODDAMNIT, I'M GONNA LEAVE THIS WORLD THE SAME WAY...
wu tang!
Oh, yeah...and by the way, that stuff really is just one step away from whatever boarspear said...but I can't type right now, becasue <-see I'm fuckered up and lovin' it.
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