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alexseanchai) wrote2014-11-26 01:01 am
alexseanchai) wrote2014-11-26 01:01 am
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Dear mother:
Yeah, that last Facebook post of yours is absolutely right on the money. Because "wanting attention from men" is CLEARLY the only reason a woman would choose to dress "immodestly", and because no self-respecting "Real Man" is EVER a "pig" to someone dressed modestly, in, say, a burqa.
I'm tempted to wear my shortest shorts and a tank top to Thanksgiving dinner, for the explicit purpose of proving this point. (Nobody will be at Thanksgiving dinner whom I might wish to attract. Or whom my mother might think I might wish to attract. I suspect these of being nonoverlapping populations anyway, even though she knows damn well I'm queer.) Merely tempted, not actually going to do it, because I have no plans of freezing, but seriously tempted.
(argh.)
Yeah, that last Facebook post of yours is absolutely right on the money. Because "wanting attention from men" is CLEARLY the only reason a woman would choose to dress "immodestly", and because no self-respecting "Real Man" is EVER a "pig" to someone dressed modestly, in, say, a burqa.
I'm tempted to wear my shortest shorts and a tank top to Thanksgiving dinner, for the explicit purpose of proving this point. (Nobody will be at Thanksgiving dinner whom I might wish to attract. Or whom my mother might think I might wish to attract. I suspect these of being nonoverlapping populations anyway, even though she knows damn well I'm queer.) Merely tempted, not actually going to do it, because I have no plans of freezing, but seriously tempted.
(argh.)
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Yeah, and also I don't have the boob structure that turns ordinary V-necks into horribly "immodest" shirts.
The irony about all this is, on Confirmation retreat some ten years ago, one of the things we were doing was if you believe X, go to the left side of the room, if you believe not-X or opposite-X or whatever, go to the right side. And one of the questions was on the morality of revealing clothing. And there's me, all by my lonesome, and when I was asked why, I said something like "I don't feel comfortable in revealing clothing. Y'all do what you like." My views on me-attire...have not changed.