Is there a double standard held in the church (especially in the minds of male, recently returned missionaries) between how modesty standards should apply between guys and girls?
Yes, there is a trigger for me asking this.
Yesterday Curt was talking to a young guy we know who is attending college in Utah. His Halloween costume was a fro wig, and a kind of tank top known as a "wife beater". This young man is an endowed member of the church, and a tank top has no sleeves...are you getting why this doesn't add up?
Then I was looking at my home page on Facebook and I saw a picture that one of my friends from High School was tagged in. The picture album was labeled "BYU 08" and it had a picture of 6 or 7 BYU guys in their Halloween costumes. Almost half of the guys were wearing shorts that were crazy short (one pair was cutoff jeans and they were so short that the pocket lining hung out the bottom, so Britney Spears-esque). Some were also wearing vests with nothing underneath and then the tank top again reared its ugly head.
What the heck?!?
I feel safe in saying that each of these young men would have a problem with me, an endowed female member of the church donning a naughty nurse or sexy french maid Halloween costume (not that I would), but several nasty labels would be applied.
So I ask again, why the double standard. Why do they feel it's OK to be "funny" just this night.
Are the promises that they have made to be thrown away so lightly?
This bothers me, if you cannot tell.
It wouldn't even phase me if it were a group of non-mormon college guys. It's just the hypocrisy of those who have agreed, promised, covenanted, taught, and been taught better.
It makes me sad.
Yes, there is a trigger for me asking this.
Yesterday Curt was talking to a young guy we know who is attending college in Utah. His Halloween costume was a fro wig, and a kind of tank top known as a "wife beater". This young man is an endowed member of the church, and a tank top has no sleeves...are you getting why this doesn't add up?
Then I was looking at my home page on Facebook and I saw a picture that one of my friends from High School was tagged in. The picture album was labeled "BYU 08" and it had a picture of 6 or 7 BYU guys in their Halloween costumes. Almost half of the guys were wearing shorts that were crazy short (one pair was cutoff jeans and they were so short that the pocket lining hung out the bottom, so Britney Spears-esque). Some were also wearing vests with nothing underneath and then the tank top again reared its ugly head.
What the heck?!?
I feel safe in saying that each of these young men would have a problem with me, an endowed female member of the church donning a naughty nurse or sexy french maid Halloween costume (not that I would), but several nasty labels would be applied.
So I ask again, why the double standard. Why do they feel it's OK to be "funny" just this night.
Are the promises that they have made to be thrown away so lightly?
This bothers me, if you cannot tell.
It wouldn't even phase me if it were a group of non-mormon college guys. It's just the hypocrisy of those who have agreed, promised, covenanted, taught, and been taught better.
It makes me sad.
2 comments:
Touché!!
Amen.
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