Carolyn Shields Carolyn Shields

"Can We Stop Fretting About Modesty?"

Everybody has different standards of modesty, and – wait for it – that’s okay. The Church has never defined what types of clothing are acceptable, and for good reason.

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Feminine Genius Carolyn Shields Feminine Genius Carolyn Shields

What's Wrong With Modesty

The reason our skirts were shortened in the first place was for practicality. Skirts were difficult to manage when we started working in factories in the late 1800s, and a few years later we had to chase our downtown bus connections to work our secretary jobs in the city.

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Carolyn Shields Carolyn Shields

"Modest is Not Hottest"

That a phrase rhymes does not make it a truism — I can “snooze” and not “lose,” “fake it” and never “make it” — and this is especially true of the overwhelmingly whack aggregation of words that comprise our current topic, words I double-damn as (a) not really rhyming unless you mispronounce “hottest” and (b) not being true.

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Carolyn Shields Carolyn Shields

"Seeing a Woman: A Conversation Between a Father and a Son"

You are more than that.  And the woman you are looking at is more than her clothes.  She is more than her body.  There is a lot of talk about how men objectify women, and largely, it is true.  Humans objectify the things they love in effort to control them.

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