http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/ A forum for people of all ages and backgrounds whose voices are not normally heard in the mainstream (or even non-mainstream) media. Here you will find fresh, intelligent, and sometimes surprising discussions from women who value modesty in its various forms. en-US 2009-09-21T21:12:05-04:00 ModestlyYourshttp://feedburner.google.com http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/2009/09/save-the-males.html It's fairly common nowadays to see young girls walking around wearing t-shirts that say things like "Girls Rule the world; Boys just live here" or "Boys are stupid--throw rocks at them!" But, can you imagine the uproar that would ensue...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=v6f4ER7WoLI:v8JiJzxNJGc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=v6f4ER7WoLI:v8JiJzxNJGc:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=v6f4ER7WoLI:v8JiJzxNJGc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=v6f4ER7WoLI:v8JiJzxNJGc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=v6f4ER7WoLI:v8JiJzxNJGc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=v6f4ER7WoLI:v8JiJzxNJGc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Alyson Turley Alyson Turley 2009-09-21T21:12:05-04:00 http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/2009/08/fashion-victim.html I read in Vogue this month that making women look tough and sexy was back on the agenda of fashion designers. Seems to me that making women look sexy was never off the agenda. Necklines are getting lower and lower,...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=xBNIPMcSgCg:Bwt-OyPvE6Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=xBNIPMcSgCg:Bwt-OyPvE6Y:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=xBNIPMcSgCg:Bwt-OyPvE6Y:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=xBNIPMcSgCg:Bwt-OyPvE6Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=xBNIPMcSgCg:Bwt-OyPvE6Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=xBNIPMcSgCg:Bwt-OyPvE6Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Margaret Banford Margaret Banford 2009-08-17T10:34:39-04:00 http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/2009/07/ho-ho-ho-and-away-we-go.html Here we go again. The breathless ad for "HUNG": "Don’t miss the premiere of HBO’s new comedy series. Jane Adams plays Tanya, a struggling poet who unexpectedly lands a new career – as a pimp. Hung airs Sundays at 10pm...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=GJxNiw4bWng:lgL6VOs-UtM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=GJxNiw4bWng:lgL6VOs-UtM:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=GJxNiw4bWng:lgL6VOs-UtM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=GJxNiw4bWng:lgL6VOs-UtM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=GJxNiw4bWng:lgL6VOs-UtM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=GJxNiw4bWng:lgL6VOs-UtM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Elizabeth Neville ElizabethNeville 2009-07-07T12:00:27-04:00 http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/2009/06/modesty-and-the-humanity-of-the-superfluous.html What differentiates human beings from animals? This is one of the central questions of King Lear, which I am now teaching to high school students. In the play, through the motif of clothing, Shakespeare explores what it means to be...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=VM6u-i1NXls:NIDQSNu8bbY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=VM6u-i1NXls:NIDQSNu8bbY:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=VM6u-i1NXls:NIDQSNu8bbY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=VM6u-i1NXls:NIDQSNu8bbY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=VM6u-i1NXls:NIDQSNu8bbY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=VM6u-i1NXls:NIDQSNu8bbY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Eve Grubin EveGrubin 2009-06-05T20:27:41-04:00 http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/2009/05/too-many-masks.html I remember, when I started wearing modest clothes on a regular basis, one of the things I noticed was the number of women who glared at me when I was doing totally normal things, like sitting on the bus, or...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=zRTVWJIlotA:VzTify_azpQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=zRTVWJIlotA:VzTify_azpQ:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=zRTVWJIlotA:VzTify_azpQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=zRTVWJIlotA:VzTify_azpQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=zRTVWJIlotA:VzTify_azpQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=zRTVWJIlotA:VzTify_azpQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Margaret Banford Margaret Banford 2009-05-26T09:23:11-04:00 http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/2009/05/i-have-a-little-sister-shes-sweet-funny-bright-ambitious-clever-and-has-these-incredibly-long-lush-eyelashes-that-make.html I have a little sister. She's sweet, funny, bright, ambitious, clever, and has these incredibly long, lush eyelashes that make me wonder how I missed out on that end of the gene pool. She got into the top choir at...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=pVcyIrCob78:sA168XUAhyY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=pVcyIrCob78:sA168XUAhyY:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=pVcyIrCob78:sA168XUAhyY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=pVcyIrCob78:sA168XUAhyY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=pVcyIrCob78:sA168XUAhyY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=pVcyIrCob78:sA168XUAhyY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Alyson Turley Alyson Turley 2009-05-12T22:11:38-04:00 http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/2009/04/is-this-really-the-kids-choice.html At the beginning of the month my 11-year-old daughter wanted to watch her favorite celebrities perform on Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Awards, an annual mash-up of pop fluff and green slime courtesy of the marketing people at Viacom. She happened to...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=fwjI0vKHANQ:wqS0mko6KN0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=fwjI0vKHANQ:wqS0mko6KN0:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=fwjI0vKHANQ:wqS0mko6KN0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=fwjI0vKHANQ:wqS0mko6KN0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=fwjI0vKHANQ:wqS0mko6KN0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=fwjI0vKHANQ:wqS0mko6KN0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Elizabeth Neville ElizabethNeville 2009-04-28T10:45:20-04:00 http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/2009/04/are-tween-girls-setting-new-clothing-trend-.html A recent article from trend Trend Central suggests tweens are becoming "modest but not mousey". This was suggested on the heels of the new Miley Cyrus movie where moms and daughters headed out to see one the most popular teens....<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=K0wvpVy64AY:ElG62zlcA38:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=K0wvpVy64AY:ElG62zlcA38:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=K0wvpVy64AY:ElG62zlcA38:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=K0wvpVy64AY:ElG62zlcA38:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=K0wvpVy64AY:ElG62zlcA38:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=K0wvpVy64AY:ElG62zlcA38:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Carrie Silver-Stock Carrie Silver-Stock 2009-04-24T19:36:37-04:00 http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/2009/04/dont-forget-to-say-thank-you.html I love having the door opened for me. Whenever a man opens a door for me, or even waits two seconds longer to hold the door so that I can enter, it makes me feel special. It doesn't matter if...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=VggdC8wjB2A:tnQzQxknneU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=VggdC8wjB2A:tnQzQxknneU:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=VggdC8wjB2A:tnQzQxknneU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=VggdC8wjB2A:tnQzQxknneU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=VggdC8wjB2A:tnQzQxknneU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=VggdC8wjB2A:tnQzQxknneU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Lizzie Lizzie 2009-04-05T11:09:35-04:00 http://blogs.modestlyyours.net/modestly_yours/2009/04/its-spring-and-i-dont-know-about-you-but-im-ready-to-buy-a-few-new-duds-so-i-thought-we-could-put-the-theoretical-discussio.html It's spring and I don't know about you, but I'm ready to buy a few new duds. So I thought we could put the theoretical discussion of modesty on hold for a spot and get down to the practical --...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=Wm4SxbeN3uU:RjbTFMAcMG8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=Wm4SxbeN3uU:RjbTFMAcMG8:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=Wm4SxbeN3uU:RjbTFMAcMG8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=Wm4SxbeN3uU:RjbTFMAcMG8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?a=Wm4SxbeN3uU:RjbTFMAcMG8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ModestlyYours?i=Wm4SxbeN3uU:RjbTFMAcMG8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> </div> Alexandra Foley AlexandraFoley 2009-04-03T03:27:00-04:00