Modesty

[punkin_monkey]

For the lack of better threads, since there are SOOO many right now.

I think the world needs more modesty. Modesty in dress and in attitude. However, I'm not saying women shouldn't wear pants...I'm not one of those. But, you know what I mean.

[Yonlu]

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[~Johno~]

I think the world needs more apathy, then and then only will everyone realise how fucked we are taking our tooth on a corporate cog making rich people even richer, and for what? money we can spend on shit we dont need giving our hard earned money back to the rich again.... haha fook that, I aint no chump.

[PunkyMalone]

^^but if we're all more apathetic, doesn't that mean we'd stop caring about that?

I'm not sure on the modesty thing, but I think parents need to stop letting their 7 year old girls dress like Christina Aguilera. It's freaky and dirty and shit, I'm 20 and my parents STILL wouldn't let me out of the house in some of the things I see on 12 and 13 year olds... what the hell?

Also funny comment on modesty... it's legal for women to go topless on the streets of Toronto. Several years ago, all these women's groups made a huge deal about it, protesting about 'equal rights' and shit like that. When I started my job at Ontario Place (amusement park) two years ago, we got a warning that we're not allowed to tell someone to cover up if they're walking around topless.

Not only have I never seen a topless woman at my job (probably because family parks aren't really the place the crazy I-want-to-show-off-my-boobies women hang out), I've never seen one ever in the city. So shut up, feminists. We're perfectly fine wearing shirts (unless I'm intoxicated, then anything goes).

[Lamer Than Lame]

... it's legal for women to go topless on the streets of Toronto. Several years ago, all these women's groups made a huge deal about it, protesting about 'equal rights' and shit like that.
Ha, I remember that. I think there have been similar protests in Vancouver, too. There's a nude beach in Vancouver, though (Wreck Beach), so those who wish to walk around without any clothes on go there......although I've heard that older men go there and just wear T-shirts, but no pants....

[Death in a Bottle]

we are taking our tooth on a corporate cog making rich people even richer, and for what? money we can spend on shit we dont need


...Working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.

Wow, what a striking resemblence.

[~Johno~]

The big difference being yours is a quote from Fight Club, mine is an original paragraph.

[Death in a Bottle]

True, but there's no shame in using quotes. I use that for my signature, because it's about the same thing you said (and very good points, at that), it's just extremely well put. I don't know what I like about that quote so much, but for some reason it's always stuck out to me. And it wasn't even in the book, either, which is a shame.

[punkin_monkey]

Thank you PUNKY for posting something about modesty. That was my point...the way people (mostly young girls) dress and act today is just nauseating.

Yonlu, go somewhere else if you are going to be ignorant.

However, J and DIAB...it's funny you bring that up. That's what my history professor has been covering for the last few weeks. I work at Wal-Mart though, and I love it!

[~Johno~]

^You should learn to hate it.

Taylor, aye there is no shame in using quotes, and I also agree the quote in your signature is a great quote that many people should stop to think about for longer. What are your stances on this subject of being a race of slaves to the corporate system Taylor, would you ever work for one, perhaps you already do I dont know, is your aim in life to live the American dream, or perhaps you plan to exploit this way of life?

[anti-yankis]

I dont like seeing kids dressing like Christina Aguilera and acting like teens or adults when they are 7,poor them , they will never have childhood :p. But i guess that´s how society works right now, and if a mother doesnt let her daughter dress like all her friends the girl can feel out of place when she is with her friends or whatever.. . i mean, it doesnt matter if a mum doesnt let her daughter dress like the rest, there will be more mothers who let their children act , dress, etc as society ask them to do. Society change, it cant be helped.. and it seems than on that aspect it is changing to worse... ( i have a young sis who is 5 and she kisses her friends and has bf and u cant imagine how she speaks about that... my friends were like OMG! when they saw her kissing a boy, it was not like a kiss on the lips for 1 second.. it was a real kiss , lol !! i will try to teach her some values and all that stuff, but it is very difficult to teach a child not to follow society "rules" and not to want to be an adult...when people are very young they want to be adults, when they are teens they want to be over the age, and when they are old they want to be teens again... that´s nothing new)
and about topless woman or girls... well, i dont see why you can go as you want. we are in the XXI century, i dont understand how some people think that the body is something that you have to hide... I mean, the body is something natural. If you see documentals about some people in africa or asia they go naked and there is no problem about that. i think that´s how it should be. But i dont know who touch occidental societies to hide their bodies ... now the girl/woman who shows it is a whore... Anyway, we live within a society and maybe it´s true that you have to respect the rules till they change... from my point of view body should be consider just something natural. It is nothing to idealise nor something to hide. By the way, it was the first time i heard people think of it as such an important thing that they made a law to admit this kind of "behavour"...and it doesnt meke sense to me.
i´ve been to a nude beach (by accident, i was swimming and went from a beach to other till i arrived to that nude beach, then i thought it was time to go back :p ) and i felt a bit unconfortable with my bikini on :p loL! but i felt even more unconfortable seing naked people all around me, it was like "look at the sand" . That´s what my culture touch me.. it touch me to be ashamed of the body. I think it is time to change that. but that doesnt mean that people have to go naked on the streets...

(it was ages ago the last time I wrote something in English...so there will be some mistakes... )

[Death in a Bottle]

I refuse to read the above post. It's long and will no doubt make no sense.

Johno... As much as I preach about the problems of society and all that shit... In practice, I really don't care that much. I want to live a life that makes me happy. I want to have a job I enjoy and a happy life. That's my only ambition. I'm not a martyr, I'm not out to save the world from the evil aristocrats exploiting our hard work or I'm not out to change how things are. In practice, in my actual actions, I really don't care that much about any of it.

[KiD]

To quote a friend on this issue there's modesty, openness, and just plain weird.

Apparently there are day student 7th grade girls at my school who walk around/sit on benches/read magazines/ hang out in the girls locker room naked.

Now that's just weird.