{"id":690,"date":"2012-02-15T08:47:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=690"},"modified":"2012-08-10T00:42:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T04:42:16","slug":"yes-the-modesty-doctrine-hurts-men-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/02\/yes-the-modesty-doctrine-hurts-men-too.html","title":{"rendered":"Worthwhile Reads: The &#8220;Modesty Doctrine&#8221; Hurts Men Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>From time to time, I plan to point my blog readers to articles on other blogs that I find especially good. I\u2019m really grateful to my blogging friend Sierra for writing excellent pieces on the problem with what she calls \u201cthe modesty doctrine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just today Sierra posted an amazing article called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nolongerquivering.com\/2012\/02\/14\/how-the-modesty-doctrine-hurts-men-too\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">How the Modesty Doctrine Hurts Men Too<\/a>.\u201d I highly recommend you take a look, she\u2019s spot on.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra previously wrote an excellent piece on how the modesty doctrine affected her own life. For that, click <a href=\"http:\/\/nolongerquivering.com\/2011\/11\/22\/how-modesty-made-me-fat\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. You won\u2019t be sorry, I promise.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, I plan to point my blog readers to articles on other blogs that I find especially good. 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