(May 23, 2015 at 7:09 pm)graciesings Wrote: What bothers me is their victim-blaming ideas. "Women should wear long skirts and loose blouses and high necklines to avoid tempting men... of COURSE rape happens, because women dress too suggestively!" This is what they've been teaching to four girls who were sexually molested! I remember hearing a quote where Michelle Duggar said that some of the older girls had developed even stricter standards of modesty than their parents. Annnd this is why: because their family's standards weren't enough to protect them.
And, let's face it, even their stricter standards aren't enough to stop other men from being "tempted" by them. One thing to note is that the Duggar daughters seem to prefer wearing flip-flops most of the time, even shrugging off suggestions that they wear less revealing footwear while hiking in South America.
Imagine if Josh had developed a foot fetish at some point while he was screwing around with his younger sisters; they wouldn't be so quick to say "We can do anything in flip-flops," now, would they?
As a foot fetishist myself, I can safely say that the biggest reason the (older) Duggar sisters don't have a significant following in the fetish community is because, well, their strong religious convictions would be an instant buzzkill. Well, that and being overshadowed by Kaley Cuoco from The Big Bang Theory.
Moral of the Story: Insistence on standards of modesty are likely to fail because where there's a will, there's a way. If men can find breasts, organs designed only to feed infants who can't eat solid food, erotic, they can find any part of the body erotic.
On to the actual news: well, that was a shock. I can only hope that this means the end of the Duggar family media saga.
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