Friday, July 23, 2021

Why you shouldn't shame or punish your daughter for "showy" attire

Many parents, namely fathers, joke about "I wouldn't let my daughter wear..." and maybe cite a Bible verse in 1 Timothy. Child victims of sexual abuse are not at fault for the moral and physical crimes imposed on them, and this attitude of "cover them up" shields child rapists and sexual assailants from responsibility by placing responsibility on child victims of adult power and control to prevent their own abuse.

It says in 1 Timothy 2:9-10 KJV:
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; but (which becometh women professing godliness) good works.

Note what God, through the Apostle Paul, prohibits. Expensive things to wear. See what is underlined. This is basically making over your whole appearance just to look good. Showy attire is not what is prohibited here. This commandment simply states to dress plainly, in a way that shows your individuality, and doesn't lead to you pretending to be someone else by way or wardrobe.

Anyone who knows the Early Christian context knows that women and children in the house were naked, as well as children outside the house as well, while swaddled to their mother. Nudity then could be seen as sexual to a man in relation to an unclothed child, or else simply innocent in the case of a child, but maybe a bit sexual, from a distance.

It says in Colossians 3:21 KJV:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to the offenses, namely the offense perceived by a child when shamed for being naked or dressed in a "showy" or "revealing" manner. Fornication wasn't being naked as a young girl, but taking advantage of the fact that a young girl was naked, with the Greek root word denoting an adult fornicator being πορνεία (Latin: porneia) and refers to sexually entitled intent perceived by the child by way of sensory gaslighting. This might be, when a young girl is in a swimsuit, feeling googly eyes penetrating her back, or front, and once she gives a cross look towards the perpetrator, he commits a form of child sexual abuse of the most everyday type. Most children don't mind, in my personal experience, but then I am to expect everything bad from a child, and nothing good from a child, until I prove myself to be trustworthy to them.

A young girl might be wearing a swimsuit top and shorts walking into the AM/PM, showing a lot of herself, and she probably just wants to look pretty. If I exploit that by catcalling her with my eyes or wave, or even the slightest of threatening glance, *I* am at fault, and she can be naked for all that I am concerned about, and she has the right to be there, as she is, as she wishes to be. I might have a self-interest in all this, but that's for another realm. It's never going to work.

Let the fornicators burn! Freedom and liberty to all, including children!

 

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