A friend of mine commented on a facebook page today - a xian radio station in Nashville. The gist is, that they linked an article by a xian blogger, who decides she will no longer wear leggings or yoga pants outside of her own home. Primary reason is because her husband told her that "it's hard for him not to look at other women wearing the tight athletic wear." So that's when she decided not to wear them outside the home and if she was wearing them at home, her shirt must be long enough to cover her bum. Because "it will honor her husband and god, and teach her daughter that her value is not in the way her body looks or how she dresses, but in the character and personality God has given her."
So then I'm following the discussion on the FB page and this comment is made. Really?
Similar comments are made in response. I don't get it. I never have, even when I was religious (and raised in a Pentecostal minister's home) - every little thing was cause for great fear, that a person would lose their salvation over every little thing. It never seemed like faith to me - it just seemed like fear. I never understood why faith was simply not faith and why people could never seem to be content to live in their faith, without such fear and worry.
You lost me at the end there, and I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "stumble". If the question is if I categorize yoga pants and leggings as revealing and super hot...
If you're even a moderately attractive woman, I will attempt to get a look at your ass regardless of clothing choice, it's just how my brain is programmed. If you're wearing tight form fitting pants, that instinct goes up by about 10 fold and it's harder to look away (the gym is as much of a mental excessive as physical sometimes). Can't say I've ever tripped over myself while doing so though because I'm not a sitcom character
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Well, in the xian vernacular, unless it's changed drastically since I last attended church, to cause someone to stumble, was to cause another xian to somehow fail or sin in their xian "walk" (faith). There are several verses in the bible pertaining to this.
I look, but that has more to do with me than the women. For my own sake some days I wish it had never caught on, but it's my problem to be mindful of my gaze. If it makes a person comfortable and confident to wear that style then who am I to deny it?
And sorry to be nitpicky, but the 'xian' moniker (as opposed to Christian) is irksome.
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No. Nothing can make you "stumble" if you weren't already headed in that direction.
It's basically the same argument that leads to women being forced to wear burkas, or for rape victims to get dismissed because "did you see how she was dressed?"
Also, from the religious perspective, isn't the whole point of resisting temptation that you resisted when you were tempted? If you've never been tempted to "stumble", you haven't accomplished anything by not stumbling.
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This is a variation on the 'do these pants make me look fat?' question, no the pants dont make you look fat, you are fat and it isn't the pants I'm looking at either, it's your arse that's making me stumble.
Super concsious about making them feel creeped out because super tight anything accentuating their lovely bodies causing me to look longer than anyone really should? Yes.
Yoga pants, Leggings, those shiny pants girls wear to the club that look like rubber but they aren't. All of it, except for Jeggings, just say no to Jeggings.
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Men - Do Leggings Cause You To 'Stumble?'
