modesty

October 2019

October 23, 2019
I am so glad I left this toxic mentality behind. I am so glad I...

February 2018

February 12, 2018
In their criticism of "modest" Muslim clothing lines, TheBlaze, as a conservative news site, is...

December 2017

December 28, 2017
When evangelicals talk about the importance of men protecting women, they tend to mean protecting...

August 2016

August 24, 2016
The top picture, which dates from the early twentieth century, depicts a male official measuring...
August 18, 2016
What I'm trying to get at is this---banning burkinis won't change what burkini-inclined women wear...

November 2015

November 04, 2015
I recently came upon an article via Ladies Against Feminism titled 4 Reasons Modesty Empowers...

April 2015

April 23, 2015
I want my daughter to know that her value does not come from her looks....

March 2015

March 30, 2015
The author of this article on the No Greater Joy website likely thinks his daughter...
March 29, 2015
I often heard, growing up, that dressing modestly wasn't about rules, it was about the...

June 2014

June 25, 2014
Sally's concerns revolve around learning to ride a bike without training wheels and remembering something...
June 18, 2014
Frankly, I'm conflicted. When I was a teen striving to dress modestly, I struggled with...
June 17, 2014
People arguing in favor of modesty often put women's bodies in the same category as...

May 2014

May 13, 2014
I'm sure you've already read about this, but my friend Hannah Ettinger's sister Clare was...

April 2014

April 01, 2014
Somehow I missed Amanda Hess's recent article, Middle-School Girls Picket for the Right to Wear...

December 2013

December 05, 2013
Growing up in a conservative evangelical home, I believed that we were the ones who...
December 03, 2013
Doug Wilson himself blamed Doug Phillips' affair on Phillips' "testosterone"---combined, of course, with references to...

October 2013

October 17, 2013
Last week I promised you to dig up a Christian Charm Course book and share...
October 10, 2013
As I watched the opening of this viral video, "Virtue," I was excited. It was...

September 2013

September 08, 2013
In which Michael Pearl uses the candy bar analogy.
September 05, 2013
Dear Sally, I saw something today that made me think of you. It was a...

August 2013

August 24, 2013
A Guest Post by Ryan Stollar. A disgrace. A destructive force against families. Homeschool dropout....

July 2013

July 18, 2013
Every time purity culture issues come up---purity rings, purity balls, saving your first kiss for...

June 2013

June 12, 2013
It is possible that this modesty double standard may be starting to change---not because of...
June 11, 2013
I recently looked through some old photo albums from my teenage years. Oh, the memories...
June 09, 2013
I was fascinated by a recent post by Lana on clothes shopping as an ex-fundamentalist...

May 2013

May 31, 2013
In the end, I don't actually think the author herself was clear on whether she...

April 2013

April 05, 2013
A Guest Post by Abel. But really, what I took to heart from all this...

January 2013

January 26, 2013
Yesterday I came upon two posts that discuss the way men's absolute fixation on women's...

December 2012

December 31, 2012
"…seriously, guys actually think that women dress for them? What sort of thought processes do...
December 10, 2012
Growing up in a conservative evangelical home, I was taught that the way women dress...
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