From one of my favorite websites, Ladies Against Feminism.
I hear all ten of these from women–either in person or by email. Bravo to Mrs. Parunak for jotting them down!
Full column here, only bits below.
The Top Ten Reasons Modesty Gets a Yawn
Posted By Mrs. Parunak on July 31, 2010
My family and I have had the privilege of hanging out with some unbelievably awesome single guys lately.
But these guys have a problem, and it’s a problem that we have to own as their sisters in Christ. Everywhere they go, women are unbelievably unhelpful. Flaunting. Revealing. Immodest. Out in the world, we wouldn’t really expect anything else, but when it’s women in the Church, that’s a different story. Over and over, our friends have lamented that Christian women just don’t seem to understand what they’re doing to their brothers. I think that’s because no one is out there trying to teach them. And guess what, ladies, that’s OUR job. The Bible says that it’s up to women to teach other women how to be discreet and chaste (Titus 2:5). But so many women can’t muster much passion about this issue. It conflicts with other values, or it just isn’t on the radar screen. 
10. I’m too old to be a problem.
You’re never too old to be discreet and chaste. Just because you don’t look like a teenager doesn’t mean that you don’t still need to be careful. When you’re bending over in tight jeans, your crow’s feet don’t show anyway. And if your cleavage is spilling out of your neckline, it’s likely to be a challenge whether or not you have a few gray hairs.
Even if, for the sake of argument, you really are too old to ever cause anyone to struggle, you’re still not too old to set an example for the younger women who are naively exhibiting themselves. After all, if their mothers and grandmothers are doing it, why shouldn’t they?
9. I don’t have a body like a Victoria’s Secret model, so who would ever lust after me?
This one is similar to #10 and reveals a way in which most women don’t understand men. Women think that they have to have a perfect total package to provoke anyone to lust. Actually a man will feel a twinge of arousal from seeing anything that is hyper-accentuated and immodest about a female body–even if something else is less than perfect.
8. But my husband wants me to dress immodestly.
Usually, when husbands express this, it’s because one of two things is happening (sometimes both at the same time). Either you are not paying attention to satisfying his deep desire for visual stimuli when you are alone (and wives, when you’re alone, go ALL OUT!); or he’s a lust junkie who’s getting a buzz anywhere and everywhere he can and is annoyed that he isn’t getting the same buzz from you. A man that is fighting hard will not want you to be as inconsiderate and unloving as all the women he has to put up with all day. But a man who’s wallowing in other women’s immodesty will want to pull you down into the pit with him with absolutely no regard for how many men you cause to stumble along the way. If your husband doesn’t care if other men are lusting after you, it is a huge red flag that he is probably lusting after everyone else.
7. Are you saying that if a man is lusting after a woman, that it’s her fault?!
Nope. Not even close. Lust is a sin. And if a man is committing it, God holds him and him alone accountable. I’m not advocating the Islamic stereotype “blame the woman for her own rape” kind of mentality that says that men are not responsible for themselves in the presence of a beautiful woman.
But we can help our brothers. Being immodest is like throwing a party for a bunch of recovering alcoholics and deciding to have an open bar. If your guests got totally smashed it would, of course, be their fault, but no one is going to think for a minute that you really loved them or cared about their struggles.
Read the rest here!
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*An intriguing discussion is worth comment. I feel which you need to write more on this subject, it may not be a taboo subject but generally men and women are not enough to speak on such topics. To the next. Cheers
My only complaint with the article is some females have so many “reasons” to not dress modest it’s hard to narrow it down to a list of ten. Also, we are so thick-skinned to certain fashions that ladies should NOT wear some will see some immodest garments(masculine garb, slightly above-the-knee hemlines, etc.) as not so bad.
A little-known(or at least, likely to be worded as such) reason some women don’t dress modesty is…they THINK they are. Of course, what do we expect when certain fashions once seen as scandalous are seen in a more positive light? On top of that, there are those who, despite being polar opposites, see modest as frumpy; one group is the “If you’ve got it, flaunt it” crowd; the other will, oddly enough, say “I’m not dressing frumpy” when we all know better.