{"id":21183,"date":"2012-09-17T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=21183"},"modified":"2013-04-04T00:33:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T04:33:31","slug":"feminist-radicalization-update-dress-modestly-now-code-for-misogynist-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/feminist-radicalization-update-dress-modestly-now-code-for-misogynist-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist radicalization update: &#8220;dress modestly&#8221; now code for misogynist oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Modesty-Matters.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21184\" title=\"Modesty Matters\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Modesty-Matters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a>Nothing is more certain to <a href=\"\/news\/culture\/amanda-marcottes-problem-with-purity\/\">freak out<\/a> pro-aborts than suggesting that sexuality should be accompanied by a degree of responsibility. On Friday, ThinkProgress <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2012\/09\/14\/851401\/values-voters-women\/\">reported<\/a> on a Modesty Matters pamphlet distributed at the Family Research Council\u2019s 2012 Values Voter Summit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Modesty Matters criticized women for dressing \u201cimmodestly\u201d at church, and blamed women for causing men to stare lustfully at them.<\/p>\n<p>Women must \u201cembrace MODESTY in dress and behavior,\u201d one of the handouts read. Women dressed immodestly in church are \u201can insult to a holy God,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p>Other excerpts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; From the \u201cModesty: It\u2019s nothing to be ashamed of\u201d pamphlet:<strong>\u201cSince men are particularly visual, immodesty in church can trigger lustful thoughts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy men\u2019s bible study group talks frequently about controlling our lust, thoughts, and eyes. <strong>Yes the problem and responsibility are ours, but is it really reasonable for the women of the church to make it THIS difficult for us?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; From the \u201cTrue Woman Manifesto\u201d: \u201cAll women, whether married of single, are to model femininity in their various relationships, by exhibiting a distinctive modesty, responsiveness, and gentleness of spirit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, our old pal Amanda Marcotte <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/article\/2012\/09\/16\/modesty-is-about-lot-more-than-long-skirt\">seized the opportunity<\/a> to slander conservatives as \u201cfear[ing] women\u2019s liberation and want[ing] to control women\u2019s lives and bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be the first to agree that men have every bit as much responsibility to be sexually mature and prudent as women. No matter how sexily a woman is dressed, basic decency demands that men treat her with respect and resist whatever temptation they may feel to take advantage of her or betray their own significant others.<\/p>\n<p>But right out of the gate, one omission should raise suspicion: if the people at ThinkProgress have the pamphlet, why doesn\u2019t their article include or link a full version that readers can judge for themselves? We\u2019ve <a href=\"\/news\/?s=thinkprogress&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0\">noted before<\/a> how ThinkProgress distorts and omits facts to suit its agenda; could it be that they\u2019ve left out quotes that <em>do<\/em> place equal responsibility on men? (I\u2019ve sent inquiries to ThinkProgress, FRC Action, and Modesty Matters about the pamphlet, and I will update if I receive a response.)<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, though, the above image from the pamphlet mentions \u201cquotations from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Washingtons-Civility-Behavior-Company-Conversation\/dp\/155709103X\"><em>Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour<\/em> (Applewood Books)<\/a>,\u201d a famous collection of advice revered by noted Old White Guy George Washington, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundationsmag.com\/civility.html\">includes<\/a> such admonitions as \u201cPut not off your Cloths in the presence of Others, nor go out your Chamber half Dressed\u201d and \u201cIn your Apparel be Modest and endeavor to accommodate Nature, rather than to procure Admiration keep to the Fashion of your equals Such as are Civil and orderly with respect to Times and Places.\u201d Neither says anything about applying to only one sex. How controversial!<\/p>\n<p>As for Marcotte, her argument is &#8211; as <a href=\"\/news\/?s=marcotte&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0\">usual<\/a> &#8211; a parade of lazy, clich\u00e9d mischaracterizations that can be distilled to two basic points. First, modesty is code for \u201csecond-class status\u201d and \u201ctrying your best to be invisible,\u201d or the idea conservatives are really \u201ctrying to shame women out of wearing clothes that make them feel attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcotte seems to have a mental block that simply will not let her rationally consider the possibilities that maybe there\u2019s a time and place for different modes of dress, that maybe there\u2019s a downside to emphasizing one\u2019s sex appeal in everyday wear. Despite Marcotte\u2019s use of the term \u201cmandatory,\u201d nobody\u2019s calling to enshrine dress codes into the law; one group is merely sharing its perspective on how to control one of the human race\u2019s most powerful impulses.<\/p>\n<p>I assume that even Amanda Marcotte\u2019s not so far gone that she favors public nudity, meaning she at least partially grasps Modesty Matters\u2019 underlying rationale. So somewhere, there <em>is<\/em> a line of good taste between \u201cstark naked\u201d and \u201cburqa\u201d after all. Yet Modesty Matters is unreasonable for discussing it? And no, it\u2019s not that she simply thinks the group takes it too far &#8211; note that she doesn\u2019t propose her own alternative clothing standards or critique a particular standard posited by the pamphlet. To her, merely raising the subject is outrageous.<\/p>\n<p>Second, because the pamphlet doesn\u2019t mention abortion, somehow that illustrates the \u201canti-woman and anti-sex roots of their hostility to\u201d abortion. No, seriously:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u2019s interesting is that neither of these arguments for or against mandatory modesty mentions &#8220;life,&#8221; the supposed concern of conservative Christians who pass laws controlling female sexuality by attacking reproductive rights. Even the most strained Christian rationalizer who has convinced him or herself that merely looking at a birth control pill causes spontaneous miscarriages of nine-month pregnancies isn\u2019t crass enough (yet) to argue that a man\u2019s stray glance at a woman\u2019s legs in a miniskirt takes any kind of \u201clife.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only does Marcotte go on to <a href=\"\/news\/analysis\/amanda-marcotte-cant-find-the-baby\/\">again<\/a> out herself as biologically illiterate (or pretending to be) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abort73.com\/abortion\/are_sperm_and_egg_cells_alive\/\">equating sperm cells with unborn human beings<\/a>, but she may have set a new world record for straw-grasping. The Summit &#8211; like many large political gatherings &#8211; had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valuesvotersummit.org\/exhibitors\">many different exhibitors<\/a>, each with different interests, businesses, and focuses. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestymatters.net\/about-modesty-matters-company.php\">Modesty Matters<\/a> isn\u2019t a political or pro-life advocacy group, but a small business that sells sewing patterns and courses for modest clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Why do they need to wade into the abortion debate? Why can\u2019t they simply be interested in and value their modesty message for its own sake? And how does FRC giving them a table even remotely call into question the sincerity of the pro-lifers in attendance?<\/p>\n<p>Marcotte\u2019s warning that conservatives and pro-lifers see women as \u201ccreatures put on earth to serve men\u201d (by\u2026<em>not<\/em> dressing in man-pleasing ways, apparently) might not be so laughable if these people didn\u2019t see misogyny and oppression around every corner. But when outrage becomes an industry, when your entire <em>raison d&#8217;\u00eatre<\/em> is to keep a particular demographic group perpetually offended and fearful, no cause for war is too petty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No cause for war is too petty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":21184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Feminist radicalization update: &quot;dress modestly&quot; now code for misogynist oppression - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/feminist-radicalization-update-dress-modestly-now-code-for-misogynist-oppression\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Feminist radicalization update: &quot;dress modestly&quot; 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