Leggings have been a thing for years now.

“blackly naked” mean?

Anyone?

that they were all wearing black leggings.

But who freaking knows? And why would she use that as a description?

I noticed that right away. Never heard that one before.

and would never ask a woman not to wear them,
I wish people would dress better for Mass, or any religious service for that matter.

It does seem jarring to see people dress as though they grabbed whatever was thrown on the floor the night before...

Somehow, I don’t think Jesus would mind.

do I have to add "during ski season"?

Saying people need to "dress better" for Mass, or any religious service, is nothing but the sin of vanity and elitism. Were these young women respectful during Mass? Did they laugh and point and made remarks? No, they prayed and listened to the homily. and probably took the Eucharist.

Who cares what anyone wears to Mass? Why do YOU care? God doesn't. Jesus, God made flesh, states the same in the NT.

But I do. I think rituals deserve a level of formality.
It’s fine with me if you don’t agree.

Yeah, I am over 70 years old. But, I gotta tell ya, the sure as hell beat support hose. Not just for looks, but for dealing with my own ego that I am no longer a "young" person with good knees!

After not attending church for several years my husband and I decided to go one Sunday.. We wore a.suit and a dress, respectively, and were almost embarrassed by how "overdressed" we were!..I say "almost" because I couldn't believe how sloppy-bad so many others looked.

Jebus

So, how does one see another's backside when they are seated in pews in front of you? Aren't they "sitting" on their backsides?



As for the other questions... oh, hell, I don't care.

So you'd definitely have a few minutes to admire god's handiwork if you were so inclined.

Stand up, sit down. By the time I realized it was time to stand, everyone
was sitting down. Very awkward. Then the time came for the communion.
I knelt with my mouth open. The priest came to me and said "You're not
confirmed are you?" No cookie for you. I got up and walked out.

Everyone is encouraged to take communion at my church. No one is going to interview you to see if you're worthy.

The stand up, sit down stuff is true, but no one cares if you get it right.

12 years of Catholic school, too many Masses, lots of time for the mind to wander (I used to mentally diagram the sentences of the homilies of one particular long-winded priest; they tended to be very long with the main clause coming only at the very end).

... making rear ends?

Heaven forbid her sons should get BONERS from looking at girlz. That's really what it's about. Adults are freaked out about teens having PERFECTLY NORMAL sexual feelings.

In 9th grade, the priest teaching health class at Cardinal O’Hara told the boys that getting a boner was a sin. That’s the day he stopped being Catholic.

That was what they told us young people back then. Sexual feelings were sinful.

Sinful unless you were a priest, I guess.

BONERS! How can they be sinful?!

of young penises with an erection of his own?

Spandex clad bodies are one thing, but imagine the impact of those flaxon tresses on the impressionable males.....

These types of holy-rollers make me want to vomit on their heads...

"Are these morons getting louder or dumber?"
"Dumber, sir!"

Stop dressing a certain way because you are distracting/enticing/encouraging/tempting/forcing my sons and other sons....


That mother of sons can go fuck herself.

That mother of sons wasn't commenting on what was proper for Mass - she was commenting on how women dress and how that impacts the sons of stupid mothers who blame victims for the actions of their rapist sons.

That mother of sons was blaming how a woman dresses on how men react - in word or in deed.

Fuck her and everyone like her.

banning leggings and yoga pants in the state legislature here in MT a few years back. It didn’t end well for him.

But seriously leggings are actually a turn off if one has a certain body type. Girls usually know how to emphasize the positive, and not draw attention to the negative. Hey, I think that is how the species continues to exist!

For the same reason I don’t wear shorts - don’t want to frighten the neighbors.

scare the horses.

Wasn't there something in Genesis about this type of thing?

Oy.

I think people should wear what they're comfortable in... Life is brutally short, especially, with fundamentalists in charge.

sexual urges. God made them that way.

And how dare those little hussies defy her beliefs!

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Feel like I have done useful today now.

to the Walmart store

Or Velcro -- whatever.

Was it so very long ago that young women wearing jeans was where leggings are now?

Locally people like this got a store to remove a painting of the Venus de Milo from a store because boobies is dirty. What would we do without such valiant protectors of the public morals. This woman's story sounds like something from a Church Lady sketch from SNL.

women have butts and they aren't afraid to use them?

"“My sons know better than to ogle a woman’s body — certainly when I’m around (and hopefully, also when I’m not). They didn’t stare, and they didn’t comment afterwards."

"But you couldn’t help but see those blackly naked rear ends. I didn’t want to see them — but they were unavoidable."

She has an issue with blackness?

could lock his office door with a button under his desk, typically after a woman entered.

to stop getting their mothers to fight their battles.

...around women in clothing she perceives as somehow being "improper, " apparently. It sounds to me like she's not very confident about the way she raised her children, and now she wants the school to fix things. If your sons can't control themselves around women in leggings, that's on YOU and the way you raised them, Mrs. White.

a busy body and it's none of her business what the dress attire of these young ladies, especially at a school Mass when the priest could had said something but didn't (obviously), so who made her the queen of dress codes for females?

At their core, they believe women are inferior to men.

Looks good in leggings. If you are thin they look bad and if you are heavier they look bad.

That's just my opinion. I just don't like them except with long tops.

It has nothing to do with sex appeal.

:p

Seriously

I feel for her sons. Myself, I rather enjoy the look of an attractive woman in tight leggings.

Good thing her sons weren't going to U of Florida back in the mid 70's.

She'd have had a heart attack.

People tended to show up naked constantly at random places and times. Lakes on weekends surrounded with nude bodies lazing around in the Florida sun. Mass skinny dipping and everybody behaving themselves.

You know, you don't see that much anymore.

Even to work (pretty casual office) with a nice top. They seem like leggings but thicker material. She’s 32, I’m not and will stick to jeans.

I hope she doesn't check her son's or husband's internet browser history.