Gabriella, just because the men weren't scandalized with St Joan wearing pants doesn't mean it's acceptable.  IT WAS A ONE-TIME EXCEPTION.  Surely she didn't wear the same type of pants that women wear today, which are 99.99% immodest.  

St. Francis said that as God is the Light, as we come closer to Him, it is as if we bring a light closer and closer to us. We look at ourselves in the mirror, the less light we have, the less imperfections we see, the more perfect we think we are. As we accept more Light, we begin to see more and more of our imperfections, wrinkles, scars, facial hairs, that we never saw before. When St. Francis died, he was convinced that he deserved Hell, and entrusted himself to God’s Mercy. He knew that he was not clean. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI!

My wife wore pants when we first met. As she learned more and more of the Faith, went to confession and accepted everything, she eventually never wore pants again and knew perfectly well why it was wrong. It is all about accepting God's Light, and how close people are to the Light.

Johnnie and His Little White Rabbit

"The father of the house came home and called all his children together. He then told them if they gathered up all of their toys, every single last one of them, and gave them away to the poor, that he would then buy them new toys, much more toys, and better toys. However, they had to give away every single toy or else they would not get anything.

The next day the father came home and found a big pile of toys stacked in the living room. He asked the children; is that all the toys, every single last one of them? All the children answered yes, but Johnnie. Johnnie was holding his hands behind his back. His father asked him, Johnnie, did you put all your toys in the pile? Johnnie answered yes, father. The father asked him, Johnnie, what do you have behind your back, show me your hands. Then Johnnie showed his little white stuffed rabbit, his favorite companion. His father said, Johnnie, remember, in order to get  the new toys, much more toys than you have now, better toys, you have to give everything away, everything Johnnie. Johnnie answered back, no Daddy, not my little white rabbit, no, I can’t give him away".








 

This is the same type of fanaticism and black and white thinking that got St. Joan of Arc burned at the stake. This is not about purity or modesty or Catholicism. Just because you where pants does not make you an immodest person or someone who does no value modesty.

Maybe so, but if it is a matter of ignorance and naivety, you have now been informed of the dangers of causing lustful thoughts in men.

Do you have your eyes open when you walk? Do you not see sculptured backsides, all the dimensions clearly defined by tight stretchy material. These are a more recent development to the wearing of slacks by women. Loss of virtue is a work in progress. It does not happen overnight.

Pax Vobis, in fact if you poled most men I think they would disagree with you. I've been asking men I work with this question today and I have yet to find one that thought that.

St. Francis said that as God is the Light, as we come closer to Him, it is as if we bring a light closer and closer to us. We look at ourselves in the mirror, the less light we have, the less imperfections we see, the more perfect we think we are. As we accept more Light, we begin to see more and more of our imperfections, wrinkles, scars, facial hairs, that we never saw before. When St. Francis died, he was convinced that he deserved Hell, and entrusted himself to God’s Mercy. He knew that he was not clean. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI!

My wife wore pants when we first met. As she learned more and more of the Faith, went to confession and accepted everything, she eventually never wore pants again and knew perfectly well why it was wrong. It is all about accepting God's Light, and how close people are to the Light.

Johnnie and His Little White Rabbit

"The father of the house came home and called all his children together. He then told them if they gathered up all of their toys, every single last one of them, and gave them away to the poor, that he would then buy them new toys, much more toys, and better toys. However, they had to give away every single toy or else they would not get anything.

The next day the father came home and found a big pile of toys stacked in the living room. He asked the children; is that all the toys, every single last one of them? All the children answered yes, but Johnnie. Johnnie was holding his hands behind his back. His father asked him, Johnnie, did you put all your toys in the pile? Johnnie answered yes, father. The father asked him, Johnnie, what do you have behind your back, show me your hands. Then Johnnie showed his little white stuffed rabbit, his favorite companion. His father said, Johnnie, remember, in order to get  the new toys, much more toys than you have now, better toys, you have to give everything away, everything Johnnie. Johnnie answered back, no Daddy, not my little white rabbit, no, I can’t give him away".
 

It is all about accepting God's Light, and how close people are to the Light. Some are going away from the Light and some are going toward the Light, yet they may be at the same point. In the "parable" of Johnnie and his rabbit, it is about receiving Sanctifying Grace and all its gifts. We simply do not receive any Sanctifying Grace if we hold on to our sins.

In my experience, Catholic women who call themselves traditionalist and wear pants and defend the practice, are either going toward the light (in which case they will change over time), or are going away from the light, and will eventually partake in other errors of the world (allow their daughters to wear tight jeans, shorts, go on "dates" without supervision, allow them to go to live in universities, wear bikinis at the beach, "date" non-catholics / non- trads.......

what makes trousers "men's apparel"? That they wore them first (in our culture anyway)? Not really objective, is it? What makes kilts "men's apparel"?

Or cassocks?

I think the key is that men and women should dress differently so as to proclaim the revealed truth from Genesis that "male and female created them," not "androgynous and egalitarian He created them."

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Pax Vobis, in fact if you poled most men I think they would disagree with you.

Most men aren't catholic and don't have well formed consciences.  When you compare 'wearing pants' to the normal, scandalous, provacative attire of the the world, sure, pants aren't THAT bad.  But, comparing a theft of a cookie to the theft of a car doesn't make stealing a cookie a good act.  Morals aren't based on comparison or societal norms; they are based on divine law and unchangeable human nature.

So men have to be Catholic to be scandalized by pants?