This is our unusual funhouse time, a time when women are exhibitionists and the men are required

to pretend they are nothing of the kind. This is another way of saying that we live in a time when all

of us, particularly the remaining normal folks, are being gaslit. Provocations abound, and if you

notice them or say anything about them, it will be taken as sure evidence that you are the one losing

your mind. If you say anything about how licentious the orgy has become, you'll be shushed as though

everybody is sitting around to the library, clothed and in their right mind.

My point in this post is not, lest someone mistake my point, to do anything so simple as to cry immodest attire in women.

And by the kind of immodesty I'm not, for the most part, talking about, I'm intending both definitions of that word,

v. is that that which is sexual and provocative, and that which is flamboyant and ostentatious.

Get that? The kind of immodesty,

that is not my principal point, is both kinds of immodesty. Like I say, this point is somewhat more

complicated than that. Have I lost you already? Now, in saying that this is not my objective,

it is not to say that such a task would be an unworthy objective. No, it would be absolutely fine,

as the occasion calls for it,

and great writers have before now poured their considerable talents into the task.

Moreover, the Lord saith, because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretch forth

necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making it tinkling with their feet.

Therefore, the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the

head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts. Isaiah 3, 16, and 17.

The daughters of Zion were apparently strutting their stuff down Fifth Avenue, and the prophet

Isaiah apparently took note of it. And this has been a problem in other areas as well. Consider the pithy

observations of Nathaniel Ward, an observer of peer at New England back in the areas as well. Consider the pithy observations of Nathaniel Ward, an observer of

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