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Modest ladies: What is wrong with this picture?

Since my last question was deleted:

I have been looking around the Beauty & Style section, and I have found a lot of posts that sadden me. For example, there are some young girls who have asked how to be hotter to attract guys. There was one 13-year-old girl a little while ago who asked if she was old enough to wear a bikini. She says she doesn't want to wear it to attract guys, rather because she thinks it will help her self-confidence. She even posted pictures of her belly to see if everyone thought she was skinny enough to wear one. (I do not mean to demean her by posting this. I am merely using her post as one example of the many.)

These kinds of questions sadden me on so many levels. As a girl, I don't recall ever dressing in a sexual manner to attract guys or to up my self-confidence. (I never dressed in a sexual manner period, at least not by American standards.) And now that I do dress very modestly, I find that I actually have great self-esteem, whereas it was pretty poor before.

What are your thoughts on this? If you are a mother, does this worry you in regards to your daughters?

Update:

@MamaLuna: Who ever said we dress modestly because we are ashamed of our beauty? If anything, it is because we respect ourselves enough not to throw it out there for everyone to see. I now get to choose who sees my (outer) beauty and who doesn't. And how is it confidence if she feels she has to do this in order to feel confident? Isn't it being a slave to fashion and societal norms? I never felt confident until I broke the chains of societal norms and fashion and started dressing modestly. I am not condemning those who do not choose modesty. I am simply saying that no, modesty is not overrated.

Update 2:

@Box of Kittens: I don't like your second statement. That is quite a broad generalization. But I do agree with your first statement. Modesty does, indeed, do wonders for femininity and womanhood. You will never feel more feminine than when you are in a beautiful, long, flowey dress.

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  • 10 years ago
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    This is a phase every girl goes through. Because you did not go through it simply shows that you are unusual, or you have blocked it out. I bet you did do something at that age like everyone else. Young girls are very vulnerable, so you are experiencing a protective feeling toward them because you know the nature of men, and they do not

    Psychologically, a girl will want love and adoration, and finds that acting sexually for these things is a way to express that need.

    At the same time, young men will want sex but will act out love to gain his goals.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    modesty is overrated. Really now life is short and anyone over 30 can tell you your body changes teenaged years are the years to wear the bikinis. Although I will say as women even young women we need to learn to love ourselves more and accept ourselves for what we are.This does not mean that we need to cover ourselves and be ashamed of our beauty. If anything we need to embrace our natural beauty, but this doesn't mean that we should cover it up and keep it a secret. There is nothing wrong with showing some skin if you have the confidence to back it up! At this point in my life I have confidence and maturity, when I was a child I did not. When I now see a child that has that confidence I applaud her!!!!

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I've never asked the question of myself. My mother put a bikini on me when I was 4, I've worn one to the beach and pools ever since. I like to sunbath, my mother did it, my older sister did it so I acquired the behaviour. But by the same token I have found it relaxing to go to the beach lay out a towel and spend the afternoon reading a book. As for the modesty thing when you have 5,000 girls on the beach and 4,000 of them are in bikinis it's not really being immodest. It's like when you're standing out in a football stadium in your drill team uniform with 95 other girls. The only person who actually see's you is your parents,

  • 10 years ago

    I am a father and this would worry me if I did not have a good wife that worries about these things for me.

    My girls are fine. This is just a teenager thing. The girls see TV and their friends and just go nuts for a while. It is a phase. For mine at least.

    Having parents that can set a good example and don't let the kids go crazy is a good idea.

    Some people never grow out of it, I guess.

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  • 10 years ago

    My thoughts are every new generation is fed a barrage of images that would not have been unimaginable for the previous generation.

    They are being sold a norm.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Our culture encourages children to behave in a provocative way. This is sad for boys and for girls since childhood is so short and innocence is so fleeting.

  • 10 years ago

    Girls are trying to have sex appeal at younger and younger ages. It's usually a phase, but if It's a real problem their parents shouldn't just buy them whatever they want...

  • 10 years ago

    modesty does wonders for femininity and womanhood.

    america is whoredom, plain and simple.

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