Can anyone point out what's wrong with this picture?

[Chris V++]

Do you personally find Amish women to be frumpy?

She said it was an 'alternative reading.' It 's a fair interpretation too.

 

[bekkilyn]

Do you personally find Amish women to be frumpy?
They have a Modest, Feminine glow about them which I do not see in (90%) of other women.

They aren't Patriarchal Beauty Standards, women have brought all of it on themselves, the general public, Society do not adhere to Christian leanings for modesty at all, there all trying to look and act like Kim, Brittney, Ga Ga, and the like., the more clothes they can take off legally, and the more makeup they can put on the better, to say nothing of all the Piercings, and Tattoos, there beginning to look like they came out of Star Wars or something.

 

[JIMINZ]

Looks more like a Drag Queen.

 

[Tone]

 

[Paidiske]

No, I don't necessarily find Amish women to be frumpy. But I was suggesting that the subliminal message of the picture might have been to appeal to some women's ideas about how a modern young Christian woman might prefer to dress/present themselves, (but that those preferences have been shaped by our patriarchal and consumerist culture, and are, in their own way, no less repressive than other rigidly defined dress codes).

To discuss how patriarchy has shaped beauty standards is worthy of being a topic in its own right, but there is some good introductory reading here: Survival of the Prettiest

("Beauty is a convenient fiction used by multibillion-dollar industries that create images of beauty and peddle them as opium for the female masses. Beauty ushers women to a place where men want them, out of the power structure. Capitalism and the patriarchy define beauty for cultural consumption, and plaster images of beauty everywhere to stir up envy and desire. The covetousness they inspire serves their twin goals of making money and preserving the status quo.")

The point I was making is that there is room between the approved roles defined by others, in which Christian women might find authentic and appropriate self-expression.

 

[Dave-W]

They aren't Patriarchal Beauty Standards,

To me the pics of the women look very 1950s-early 60s cartoonish.

 

[Cimorene]

*please note this thread is in the Egalitarian forum*

Found this one in a discussion on another site. They redacted the names and location, but I'm thinking there may not be just one thing wrong with this one.

Is this really for real???? It feels like it should be a parody.

 

[bekkilyn]

Is this really for real???? It feels like it should be a parody.

It does, doesn't it, but sadly, I do believe it was (or is to be) an actual event!

 

[Cimorene]

It does, doesn't it, but sadly, I do believe it was (or is to be) an actual event!

I seriously can't even........

Words are failing me here!!! Just whoa.

 

[J03y]

I'm nt going to lie, it kinda remind me of this story
Saudi girls' council launched - by men