Because I love science, I am facing a dilemma. I have to go to work tomorrow, and yet, I am participating in boobquake. Bookquake is an event I’ve RSVP’d for designed to scientifically test the hypothesis that BOOBS CAUSE EARTHQUAKES. Or less-specifically,that immodesty causes earthquakes. As shown in the below statement:
And being the great proponent of secular morality that I am, I can’t honestly dress Modestly and allow my participation to be used in the experiment as if I had dressed Immodestly!!! I need to be good and moral and dress Immodestly like the good little atheist baby-killer I am. Or else I corrupt science.
At the same time, I can’t realistically show my boobsies to all the boysies at work. I need this job so that I can fund my giant life of debauchery and international terrorism.
I’m sure I’ll figure it out. After all, immodesty is such a indefinable thing from a woman’s perspective anyway. As immodesty only makes sense as determined by what specifically made the men be led astray. So if I can get ONE guy who is not married to me (all of them, since I’m unmarried) to be "led astray" by my shmexy body, then I have successfully achieved The Immodesty. And science can proceed. But science may have to wait till after work.
As a side note, modesty is one of those words that really has the vast amount of its usage from inside of religion. Like youth or fellowship or a joy or a blessing or let me share this with you (in the context of information, not a toy).
Oh, and to make up for me not being able to participate in boobquake for 8 hours, I give you the Muhammad Cat Pig chasing a laser pointer.
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Interesting link about this
a few months late, and I'm loathe to just post a link as a comment, but I'm interested in the feminist implications of this. I'm also hesitant as a man to bring feminist issues to the attention of women. but I still think this is worth mentioning.
She argues..."Hasn't overly sexualizing women been done to death?"
This demonstration was the opposite of sexualizing women.
You have men cutting the boobs off of mannequins. You have firemen pushing girls back into burning buildings because they failed to run out dressed modestly. <-- Those are examples of overly sexualizing women. A women's body is NOT that big a deal.
Boobquake was not a bunch of us running around naked humping street signs. It was us wearing a low-cut shirt (something completely normal and not overly sexual. The blog asked women not to go out and buy clothes they didn’t already own.) and asking religious people to stop pretending that women were singlehandedly causing the all world's problems. To stop trying to see a cause and effect between women's bodies and unrelated events. To stop putting women's sexuality on such an evil pedestal.
Boobquake was mockery of OTHER people over emphasizing the sexuality of women.
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