When did we, as a society, begin to find pictures of women in their scanty underwear acceptable? Pictures that reveal women in the tiniest of brassieres and bikini pants! Pictures that, in my lifetime, were considered to be pornographic? And when did women start revealing so much of their breasts? Men used to pay for such pictures.
Many women, rich or not so rich, dress as if they were porn stars. Traditionally, it was considered provocative in arousing men's sexual desires. Today is it some perverse statement of "look, but don't touch?" In an era of women demanding equal rights, are women degrading themselves by flaunting their sexuality?
I wouldn't be so concerned if I didn't have two daughters, eleven granddaughters, and three great granddaughters. My daughters are working as well as seven of my granddaughters. They are a working pool of nine women.
When I was growing up and learning about the ways of the world, I was taught that "modesty" was a virtue. A highly regarded virtue. Modesty has lessened in value and now "keeping up with the times" means wearing very revealing clothes. The picture gets a little bit fuzzy because a woman's age becomes a factor.
How does a woman of 79 give up her cultural conditioning and learn to adopt new ways that contradict her values? Not in the way she dresses, but in her attitude to others who dress provocatively.
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