Faith-Based 'Pure Fashion' Program Preaches That Virtues and Modesty Are What's in Vogue
Now, I don't care about the religious aspect of it per se. What bothers me are some of the assumptions made in the article, and these are what I would like to hear your opinion about:
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This seems to go along the same vein of "Today's youth is going down the gutter, they are so lost
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The stereotype of "guys are horny and only look at girls for sex" and how they can't control themselves. Guys don't look at a girl and think "Wow, I wonder if she'll go to the movies or for a walk in the park with me?" They only think "how can I get her in bed/in my backseat?"
And here's the one that burns my hide the most:
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What exactly is she trying to say? If you dress like a "slut" you're just begging for sex? And really, the message my cynical self took away from this quote was "Since guys can't keep it in their pants, it's up to us girls to dress "modestly" as so not to tempt the menfolk into sex."
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Now, I don't care about the religious aspect of it per se. What bothers me are some of the assumptions made in the article, and these are what I would like to hear your opinion about:
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"The idea with Pure Fashion is very countercultural," said Brenda Sharman, a life-long model, former Miss Georgia and creator of Pure Fashion. "It takes a girl who is brave and gutsy. ... This is not for the weak and wimpy girl ... to say, 'I'm different, and I'm going to preserve my innocence and virginity,' that's a girl who's radical!" |
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"I don't want her to be distracted by men. So I kind of don't want men to look at her at all, not notice her," Tina said. "But I recognize that they will, so I just want to make sure they look at her in the way that I see her, which is pure and beautiful and innocent." |
And here's the one that burns my hide the most:
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Sharman drives home the message: Girls who expose too much, risk much more. "If you are too steamy in your bikini, you will become a part of a statistic," Sharman told a roomful of 40 girls at the Atlanta conference. "By the age of 15, 76 percent of teens are involved in a sexual relationship. What do we expect, really, when so many girls have displayed their bodies to the world? ... For the first time teen girls have the highest gonorrhea rate in the nation, teen boys have the second. Approximately 400,000 teens have abortions every year. And according to UNICEF, half of all new HIV infections occur in young people 15-24." |
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