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The Fraud Topic of Modesty, Wednesday, April 20th, 2022, dear Darla.

So here's the topic we should get out of the way early on.

It has become I'm afraid an inflammatory topic in our culture more broadly, and this despite

being one that ought to be ranked is one of the most common sense issues ever.

I bring this subject up not because I've ever seen you having trouble with it, but because

I know that it has to be an ongoing issue.

Every time you shop for clothes, it comes up as an issue, and it also comes up as a

point of discussion with your friends.

I'm talking about famine and modesty, and perhaps you have seen one of the periodic

continent wide sheets of flame that go up when some brother on Facebook, urges the sisters

to be a wee bit more intentional about modesty issues, and a lot more intentional about

the wee bits of cloth she was attempting to call a swimsuit.

The word triggered is way overused these days, but modesty really is a subject that triggers

a lot of people.

The fact that a simple call for modesty can be met with fits of rage, outbursts of

itaporation, and explosive denunciations of rising legalism tells you a lot about

how deep our cultural crater is.

So I said in my first letter that you should want to become the kind of woman that the

kind of man you would want to marry would want to marry.

That principle extends to this point, not to be mercenary, but women are attractive to

men, and different things that women do are attractive to different kinds of men.

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