Have a question...watching Friends of God

and Alexandra Pelosi is currently with a family with ten kids in Pikeville TN. Why is it that some fundie Christians insist their wives and daughters dress like they live with Laura Ingalls Wilder? They boys get to dress in more modern clothes (button down shirts and khakis) but the girls and the wife wear dresses like those worn on Little House on the Prairie.

Oy vey!

It must be some kind of repression, submission, male domination kind of thing. :shrug:

I mean, it might very well be but I don't see that it "must" be. Clothing for boys hasn't changed all that much over the past hundred years - slacks and button down shirts were pretty much what boys wore back then, too.

Maybe they feel like they're dressing from a time that better reflects their beliefs. That could encompass plenty of things other than male domination.

I'm sure this will be seen as a defense of fundies and misogyny which is a laugh but an automatic assumption of sexism is just as annoying to me as sexism itself.

I reread my post and I have to admit to myself that I was being very judgmental. My mantra has always been "live and let live" (as long as it's legal and doesn't hurt anyone) and that includes freedom to practice their religion any way that they choose.

I watched the documentary and in all honesty the mother with the nine kids seemed content...at least on camera.

I always feel like I am defending my progressive views to people that don't agree -- primarily the religious right, and with that comes my own cynicism and defensiveness. No excuses, though.

Shame on me for judging their lifestyle the same way that I assume that they judge a more liberal lifestyle.

Prejudice is prejudice.

People who think about thing. Thanks for taking that as meant. I admire that a lot. :hug:

It's good to do from time to time...and sometimes it takes someone else's eyes to help me see the light.

You were just my eyes.

:hug:

I have an orthodox Jewish friend and she covers her hair with a wig. Another option for her is a snood...however she promised her son she would not wear a snood. I see more and more orthodox Jews in my neighborhood wearing snoods, though.

Last summer I stopped by her house to show her my then new scooter. Her daughter had a couple of friends over. It was JULY in ST LOUIS so you know it was HOT and HUMID. Her daughter's friends wore a jacket to cover their arms as well as long skirts and under their skirts they wore track suit pants, lest anyone see their ankles.



http://www.headcoverings-by-devorah.com/Headcoverings_Snoods.html

"modest dressing".

You know - no leg, cleavage, shoulders, or midriff showing.

'cause you know how men jes cain't control theyselves, ya know? One iddy-biddy peak at some private female flesh and man's liable to jes go plum' crazy with a'lustin' in his heart or worse!!!

...figure that out. the whole family was too strange, notice that the older kids hang back....like they don't want to be filmed. Can't really blame them.

Cheers