Proper modesty
Traditionalist
religions are usually very negative towards the idea of women showing
any skin at all, other than perhaps their face. In this light, I am
somewhat puzzled why the Catholic school system dresses the teenage
girls in such short skirts. I don't know what year that decision was
made, but I sure would have liked to watch the council of priests or
whatever organ of Church it was that made this decision. I can easily
imagine some old ephebophile priest proposing that from now on, teenage
students should wear short skirts. But it is kind of hard for me to
imagine how such a proposal could have been accepted in an era where
showing the ankle would have been scandalous. Perhaps this shall remain
eternally a mystery.
As an amusing side note at this point, Americans probably shudder at the idea of an adult male finding high school girls sexually attractive. I believe that John Derbyshire, who is basically the only reason to read National Review (for example, see the posting "Satire is Dead" that shows how easily he can make leftists howl in a fit of rage and moral smugness by simply saying something commonsense that everyone knows to be true), recently got a lot of heat and scorn from American leftists and feminists, since he dared to say out loud that 16-year-old women look significantly more attractive than 36-year-old women. American feminists would do well to remember that in most places in the world and especially in Europe, the age of consent is usually about 16, so perhaps all other nations than Americans consist of sick perverts, or something. Although funny thing, I just can't remember American feminists ever complaining about this, and when you look at the history of how the age of consent was lowered, it was typically leftists and feminists who advocated lowering it. We should also note that age of consent for homosexuals in these countries is typically 18 or even higher, and the progressives and leftists in Europe tend to oppose this, since they want to lower this age limit to be the same as it is for heterosexuals. I guess that these people are sick perverts too, believing that sex with a 16-year-old is morally acceptable and even liberating. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
The skimpy skirts of Catholic schoolgirls are a good example of how something is accepted because it seems to have always been so and everybody is used to it, but had it been otherwise and somebody proposed it today, such a proposal would be totally absurd and immediately rejected. For example, imagine for a moment that the Catholic schoolgirl uniform had until now been a proper and modest Amish-style dress. Any attempt to change such dress code to short skirts would certainly lead to massive protests from the Catholic parents, leading to excommunication of such a satanic deceiver and perhaps even a Papal bull denouncing the attempt, yes?
The best thing about religions is how you can often read so much between the lines and how well they demonstrate the basic truths of sociobiology. Of course, this phenomenon is not limited to religions only. For example, in the military, I can imagine how the open concept of bathrooms in recruit training was invented by some old gay general who was a piss and shit fetishist. Probably some German, who always wanted to inspect the feces of his men while prancing around in his uniform parade-style. As the posting "The Semiotics of Shit" of "The Fly Bottle" explained, the character of European nations is evident in their bathrooms.
As an amusing side note at this point, Americans probably shudder at the idea of an adult male finding high school girls sexually attractive. I believe that John Derbyshire, who is basically the only reason to read National Review (for example, see the posting "Satire is Dead" that shows how easily he can make leftists howl in a fit of rage and moral smugness by simply saying something commonsense that everyone knows to be true), recently got a lot of heat and scorn from American leftists and feminists, since he dared to say out loud that 16-year-old women look significantly more attractive than 36-year-old women. American feminists would do well to remember that in most places in the world and especially in Europe, the age of consent is usually about 16, so perhaps all other nations than Americans consist of sick perverts, or something. Although funny thing, I just can't remember American feminists ever complaining about this, and when you look at the history of how the age of consent was lowered, it was typically leftists and feminists who advocated lowering it. We should also note that age of consent for homosexuals in these countries is typically 18 or even higher, and the progressives and leftists in Europe tend to oppose this, since they want to lower this age limit to be the same as it is for heterosexuals. I guess that these people are sick perverts too, believing that sex with a 16-year-old is morally acceptable and even liberating. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
The skimpy skirts of Catholic schoolgirls are a good example of how something is accepted because it seems to have always been so and everybody is used to it, but had it been otherwise and somebody proposed it today, such a proposal would be totally absurd and immediately rejected. For example, imagine for a moment that the Catholic schoolgirl uniform had until now been a proper and modest Amish-style dress. Any attempt to change such dress code to short skirts would certainly lead to massive protests from the Catholic parents, leading to excommunication of such a satanic deceiver and perhaps even a Papal bull denouncing the attempt, yes?
The best thing about religions is how you can often read so much between the lines and how well they demonstrate the basic truths of sociobiology. Of course, this phenomenon is not limited to religions only. For example, in the military, I can imagine how the open concept of bathrooms in recruit training was invented by some old gay general who was a piss and shit fetishist. Probably some German, who always wanted to inspect the feces of his men while prancing around in his uniform parade-style. As the posting "The Semiotics of Shit" of "The Fly Bottle" explained, the character of European nations is evident in their bathrooms.
"Probably some German, who always wanted to inspect the feces of his men while prancing around in his uniform parade-style."
In Germany the most common model of a toilet seat is the type in which shit first drops on dry porceline plane. Perhaps they really want to inspect the stuff before flushing it.
I found this out when I spent couple of months in Munich gathering material and studying for my master's thesis. Although my subjects of study didn't include designs of toilet seats, I can still remember this as one of the strange things about Germany.
If you consider this slight desing fault and heavy Bavarian diet with beer, sauerkraut, bratwurst etc., you can imagine that the men's room at the office wasn't pleasent place to be after lunch break.
Rapa
Posted by Anonymous | 10:58 AM