Ok folks, I went back and reread my posts. I see one statement that may have started all of this: (If wrong, please let me know what statement was offensive or too moral or whatever.)
"There are many who want to harpoon anything that moves to transform it into something that is, in my opinion, freakish and filthy."
Is this the objection? The use of the word filthy? Would everyone feel better if I changed "freakish and filthy" to "looks freakish and filthy?" What's the difference?
I'm going to have to stand my ground. Some types of looks definitely reflect moral values. Millions of people were taught this by their parents. At best, there can only be a rejection of that truth.
Example: Hookers dress a certain way. If you take a perfectly virtuous woman and dress her like up to look like a hooker then she will look like a hooker. Her looks reflect a hooker - a low moral standard.
Conversely, take a hooker and dress her up like a perfectly virtuous woman and she will resemble a perfectly virtuous woman - no longer resembles a hooker. Her looks now do not reflect a low moral standard.
When raising children, some parents (including myself here) teach them to dress a certain way to reflect cleanliness and a high moral standard. Cleanliness is associated with morality. (Not talking about poor here, talking about style.) Sons wear pants correctly rather than having their pants hanging down below their butt cheeks. Daughters wear makeup a certain way appropriate to age, dresses not riding up and necklines not drooping low. You all know what I mean.
Can I state this blatantly without offending anyone? I don't decree the standard of beauty. I don't decree the standard of looking hideous. But I recognize them when I see them. Everyone should already know what each looks like and moral implications of ones appearance.
I am not saying that a woman who has 90 tatoos covering her body, has multiple body, face, tongue, nipple, and naval piercings with heavy dark gaudy heavy makeup, ears stretched beyond recognition, a skirt that has a hem even with the crotch, wearing a thong, and a wide neckline down to her naval is actually and in reality a slut. But does this appearance not reflect that?
Just being honest and using an extreme to make a point, not trying to offend.
Wahaika
"There are many who want to harpoon anything that moves to transform it into something that is, in my opinion, freakish and filthy."
Is this the objection? The use of the word filthy? Would everyone feel better if I changed "freakish and filthy" to "looks freakish and filthy?" What's the difference?
I'm going to have to stand my ground. Some types of looks definitely reflect moral values. Millions of people were taught this by their parents. At best, there can only be a rejection of that truth.
Example: Hookers dress a certain way. If you take a perfectly virtuous woman and dress her like up to look like a hooker then she will look like a hooker. Her looks reflect a hooker - a low moral standard.
Conversely, take a hooker and dress her up like a perfectly virtuous woman and she will resemble a perfectly virtuous woman - no longer resembles a hooker. Her looks now do not reflect a low moral standard.
When raising children, some parents (including myself here) teach them to dress a certain way to reflect cleanliness and a high moral standard. Cleanliness is associated with morality. (Not talking about poor here, talking about style.) Sons wear pants correctly rather than having their pants hanging down below their butt cheeks. Daughters wear makeup a certain way appropriate to age, dresses not riding up and necklines not drooping low. You all know what I mean.
Can I state this blatantly without offending anyone? I don't decree the standard of beauty. I don't decree the standard of looking hideous. But I recognize them when I see them. Everyone should already know what each looks like and moral implications of ones appearance.
I am not saying that a woman who has 90 tatoos covering her body, has multiple body, face, tongue, nipple, and naval piercings with heavy dark gaudy heavy makeup, ears stretched beyond recognition, a skirt that has a hem even with the crotch, wearing a thong, and a wide neckline down to her naval is actually and in reality a slut. But does this appearance not reflect that?
Just being honest and using an extreme to make a point, not trying to offend.
Wahaika