Modesty
That person isn’t modest. That woman isn’t modest. Her clothing isn’t modest. Modesty is generally expected of women. The earth is a masculinist world where men are seen as superior, paid more, and are more socially accepted to act inappropriately. It’s not likely for someone to expect a man to be modest. Many characteristics, such as modesty, are used in sexist ways. “In other words, society, not biology, confines males and females to particular masculine and feminine character profiles,” Aydon Edwards briefly mentioned. The word modest is just, unfortunately, related more to female characteristics. In a biased way the internet defines modest as, “free from ostentation or showy extravagance”. Instead of using modesty as an insult towards women who fail to meet the standards of dressing for a closed-minded society, it should be used to describes one’s behavior.
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Modesty is when a person is respectful towards everyone that’s around.
Not only is it someone that acts in a formal way, but also, it’s one that doesn’t expect anything in return. A modest person is someone with an amazing attitude who shows poise and confidence. All in all, it’s strange to question who exactly set the specific standards as to who is modest and who isn’t. Not oddly however, every person has a different view of what exactly is showing too much skin and what is acceptable to show. The idea fit to say that if a woman is wearing shorts above the knee isn’t being modest or respectful to her own body, doesn’t lead back to any certain person. Leading one to question why the usage of modesty is used only to talk about someone’s clothes. It’s absurd that society sets these ideal standards of modesty, if no one has the credentials to be able to justify their judgmental descriptions of what is
modest. The frankly outdated use of not being modest, directly describes women who wear showy clothes and are too extravagant. It shouldn’t be a word that’s only used for clothing and for degrading a woman’s values. To begin with, modesty shouldn’t be only used to describe women. Men should be expected to act modest and kind as well. Men and woman should be expected to be respectful and be able to say their actions show they appreciate themselves enough to show the same appreciation towards others. A women’s dignity shouldn’t only be measure out by the way they dress but by the way they carry themselves and their consideration towards others. No one’s value should ever rely on how they dress. It should be only about the way men and women care about themselves and the way they attend to others. In ways where that show kindness, humbleness, love, compassion. Modesty in a passed time was seen as a woman dressing in an extremely conservative way. Women were expected to not show their legs, arms, and let alone anything else. In some cultures, the ideal modest woman still dresses this way and when they show more skin or even hair than they should, they’re extremely frowned upon. Unfortunately, not much has changed today. People want woman to dress modestly and only in ways that will not attract men’s attention in inappropriate ways. Lindy West who was very against a high school’s club for teenage girls to dress a certain way wrote, “The problem is the implication that there's a "right" way to be a woman, and that men—anonymous, strange men on the internet, no less—have some say in what that "right" way looks like.” However, with more feminist movements women feel less pressure to see fit to society’s standards and have been leaning to dressing as they feel. Lamentably, many of these women are shamed and verbally tortured. Modesty isn’t about how a woman dresses. The amount of skin a woman shows doesn’t mean they are seeking or in need of man’s attention. Modest should be used to describe the way a human acts and shows courtesy towards others to a degree in which is admirable. Making women feel like they’re not modest because of the clothes they wear is sad, judgmental and so rude. Woman like Ariana Jaret pointed out that people need to, “Stop judging women who love their bodies enough to show them off,” or just stop judging each other once and for all. Modesty is truly about being a person who can be chivalrous with everyone around. Modesty is about the way one cares about themselves and displays that through their actions and words. It’s important that everyone stop using modest as a term to be mean towards woman and use it as a complement towards each other.
There was huge controversy about the style and how it affects how women dress today. Views on the modest vs. flapper style are very different. In Cleve’s article, it explains how the Flappers focus their style around dating and being attractive, whereas the modest women would wear very conservative clothes or what the men wanted. The Flapper was seen as hurting a woman’s reputation to be dressed in that way, but it was also seen as a stand for women’s rights to achieve self-fulfillment. During the modest era, women had little to no rights and did whatever the man told her and would run the house.
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Shalit, Wendy. "The Future of Modesty." The Presence of others: Voices and Images that Call for Response. Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz. New York: St. Martin’s 2000. 214-220.
A lot of the times what women wear is sexualized, just because a girl is dressed a certain way doesn 't mean that she wants to hook-up with someone or that she is “asking for it”. The way a girl dresses doesn 't have to have a hidden meaning behind it, maybe that 's just what she feels comfortable in. Women are expected to dress respectfully at all times while men can wear whatever they want and there would be no problem with it. Pictures that are posted on social media get different reactions depending on which gender posted it, while there are some things that should not be uploaded for everyone to see, it does not change the fact that we cannot control the reaction that is received. “The idea is that women should look nice and well put-together without turning anyone on, or reminding anyone of sex.” (Throwbridge) We can 't control what others think of when they see us, if their thoughts automatically jump to something sexual we are not to blame. If a guy is wearing shorts with no shirt doesn 't mean there is a hidden meaning behind his choice of clothing, it is in they way you interpret it. Even then, you should not act on your thoughts, just because you believe something does not mean that it is right. As a nation, we need to take the step to stop
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Tertullian. “Chapter1. Modesty in Apparel Becoming to Women, in Memory of the Introduction of Sin into the World Through a Woman.” On the Apparel of Women. Trans. S. Thelwall. Ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Vol. 4. Buffalo,NY: Christian Literature, 1885. Print.
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