I ran across this article today and it articulated well many thoughts that have floated through my head of late. Some dear friends and I have been hashing out our thoughts about the writings of a well-known ministry who have taken great pains to expose the aberrant behaviors of too many people. While we must be educated there was something that was rubbing me wrong about these articles, namely the vulgar descriptions which left nothing to the imagination. We DO need to be informed. We do not need to be assaulted.
Peggy Noonan’s article hit the nail on the head. She issues a plea for a return to dignity, particularly that dignity that used to be reserved for ladies. She explains that as a society we are becoming desensitized to this vulgarity in both language and behavior. She also helped me to feel less embarassed about my embarassment if that makes sense. Check it out if you have a moment: Embarassing the Angels
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Great minds. 🙂 Kim, I just got up this a.m. to blog about this. Read yours before I was done, so I did link to it. Seems like we have given up something of ourselves and hopefully we can get it back!
Hey I read that article a few days ago! We must be following the same links. 😉 I couldn’t agree more. I was “patted down” at an airport not too long ago. It was done by a female officer but I did indeed feel embarassed as it was simply off to the side in plain view of everyone else. I didn’t set off the metal detector but I did have a skirt on which is apparently (according to the officer) one of the things they look for. I was shocked! It seems that dressing like a lady now means they have the right not treat you like one! Something is seriously wrong.