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Re: Slow Boiling the Mass Fashions of Women
« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2018, 11:06:31 AM »
As a man I can honestly say that were I to be pulled into staring at those images I would in all likelihood commit a sin if not necessarily by direct thought and even possible subsequent action then at the very least by having willfully and knowingly placed myself in the immediate occasion of sin.
The images are just pictures of what you will see in your SSPX chapel every Sunday, so if they are so dangerous to you as you describe, why don't you take the same holy anger you exhibit here and apply it to the real world in your chapel?  The first place to apply it is where you are in charge, your family. Marilyn Monroe in those pictures is a pretty young girl like 23, maybe an older less attractive woman wearing the same thing does not affect you the same way? Don't attack the messenger, go and take care of the matter in the real world.


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The OP is no small irony in so much as it displays 2 impure fashion images and then complains about impure fashions. Unfortunately, there are some Catholic websites such as traditioninaction.org that seem to think it is perfectly all right to place very impure images on their sites.  (It is particularly ironic for tradtioninaction.org to do so in so far as they carry a number of excellent articles rightly decrying the use of immodest/impure fashions.)
Instead of applying Traditioninaction's  excellent information and articles, I hope you are not just attack the messenger and doing nothing in the real world to take care of the matter.


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As Catholics we should never forget the basic Catholic principle that one may never do evil in order to bring about good.  That includes the placement of impure images on the Internet -- especially on a Catholic site!  

That is correct, except, what are you doing about the impurely dressed real people all around you in your chapel?

If those pictures are as impure as you state why not declare it from the rooftops at your chapel?

Re: Slow Boiling the Mass Fashions of Women
« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2018, 11:17:15 AM »
????Most of we women in our 50s don't have figures like Marilyn Monroe, so if we're wearing sweaters like hers, there is no possibility of tempting the men.  More likely we're disgusting them, and everyone else!  But, hey, I speak only for myself.  I wouldn't ever wear a form-fitting sweater with push-up bra even if I did have a great figure.  If women come regularly this way to mass, shame on them, and shame on their husbands, fathers, and the priests for not educating and correcting them.
Exactly!

They're not going to tempt young men that's for sure, on the other hand, there's some older men who would be tempted by a light socket, however, like you say temptation is not the problem with the older women wearing that fashion. The problem with women in their 50's and older wearing those fashions is that they are a bad example to the younger girls. What are they going to tell a pretty young girl like Marilyn Monroe when she wears the same thing?  



Re: Slow Boiling the Mass Fashions of Women
« Reply #22 on: March 12, 2018, 11:20:44 AM »
????Most of we women in our 50s don't have figures like Marilyn Monroe, so if we're wearing sweaters like hers, there is no possibility of tempting the men.  More likely we're disgusting them, and everyone else!  But, hey, I speak only for myself.  I wouldn't ever wear a form-fitting sweater with push-up bra even if I did have a great figure.  If women come regularly this way to mass, shame on them, and shame on their husbands, fathers, and the priests for not educating and correcting them.
Another thing, as a son, I would be ashamed of my mother for wearing provocative clothes. She is a mother, not woman trying to attract attention from men to make herself feel wanted and pretty.

Re: Slow Boiling the Mass Fashions of Women
« Reply #23 on: March 12, 2018, 11:28:54 AM »
Priests should be directing their flock to heaven, not to years of purgatory for thousands of immodesty sins or worse.  Parents should be enforcing their priests direction.  Children and adults should be obeying them.  And then their future children obey them.
Exactly!

There is a hierarchy to our faith, and for us, the priest is the king of the chapel, it is not the older women or the ushers or Holy Name Society. The problem to day, at least in my SSPX chapel, is that the priest could care less what the women wear. There is no head. I assume it is the same throughout the SSPX, therefore my appeal directly to the fathers of families, for they are the authority over their family. Do not expect the priests to take care of the matter. My SSPX chapel has become just a place to receive valid sacraments and nothing else.

Re: Slow Boiling the Mass Fashions of Women
« Reply #24 on: March 12, 2018, 11:38:44 AM »
Another thing, as a son, I would be ashamed of my mother for wearing provocative clothes. She is a mother, not woman trying to attract attention from men to make herself feel wanted and pretty.

I think there is something particularly malicious in the modern moms out there who show their pregnant bellies to everyone trying to appear "sexy" , a "hot mama" as they say. What is it with all these pregnant women in bikini showing off their pregnant bellies in social media or wanting to nurse in public showing off their breasts? It is repugnant (not the nursing in itself but the gross immodesty and lack of feminine pudor). Actually, TIA has a great article about this phenomenon here:

Immodest Trends in Maternity Wear


Women's excessive craving of attention and showing off really need to be restricted in a well ordered society, for it goes out of control very quick. I don't think words and sermons alone would be sufficient. Not long ago, there were legal implications enforced by society for cases of gross and public indecency. Immodesty in single young girls is bad, but in married women and mothers is even worse. 

Unfortunately, women have absolutely no clue of the true male nature and many sin, not even out of malice, but of plain foolishness. We need to be properly trained and taught in this respect, since infancy.