Nuttiness in the U.S. State Department

Recently our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed 49 Delegates at the Women in Public Service Summer Institute at Bryn Mawr, strongly admonishing these women to fight against all the barriers thrown up against women the world over. This clearly included the United States of America.  Just one of the barriers she mentioned: "extremists of all stripes trying to control women, how we dress, how we act, even the decisions we make about our own health and bodies"

In what ways does she clearly believe that women in the United States are at risk of being controlled in their lives?  Control of women’s bodies, in particular abortion, contraceptives, dress, wages, educational opportunities and many others. Since I have talked about the way women dress in a previous posting, and since the Secretary mentions this first,I would like to address this issue of women’s dress to COUNTER the implications of control of women’s dress as claimed by Secretary Clinton.

Clearly the Secretary means more than attempts at passing laws or other types of regulations to control how women dress (which I do not condone but which could happen if the advocates for Sharia Law in our judicial system get their way); she also means there should be no serious comments promulgated by any individual or institution in favor of any modification in how a woman dresses (and here I do not agree).

I am quite sure Secretary Clinton would be against any program suggesting that “hot pants” worn by young women are not in the best interests of the woman nor of the society as a whole.  Certainly not a program that would endeavor to force women to dress differently, that is, not to wear “hot pants”; but not even a program of good rational thought and common sense as to why dressing in this manner is not all that good for all concerned, containing no attempt at restricting their freedom to wear what they pleased..

Let me give an example of a woman’s dress I feel should be moderated.  (Secretary Clinton would certainly suggest I mind my own business).   While I was in Costco the other day I saw a mother with 2 teenagers in tow who were dressed in white, tightly fitting, “hot pants”.  As I watched these 2 teenagers walk a short distance before I turned away, my thoughts, after seeing the movement of their constricted butts, went immediately  to what was between their legs!  

Now please don’t think I’m just a dirty old man; in fact this would be, in general, the reaction of any man since that is the way a man is built:  to react sexually to what he sees in the way a woman is dressed which emphasizes her body parts.  However a man of good character would have learned to channel any energy associated with such thoughts or desires to something less conducive to thinking of women in a degrading way.  


(There are exceptions of course in men who would not react in this way, the exceptions being in a much lower percentage than the general reaction).  Women, in contrast, do not react in this way men react, were they to look at the same scene, because they do not generally react sexually to how a person looks or dresses;  women are different and behave differently than men, a fact that is contradicted by extreme feminists (such as Secretary Clinton?).

Now my question is this:  Do these two teenagers KNOW OR UNDERSTAND that their attire stimulates a man this way?  If they do not, hopefully someone would tell them and see if this reaction is acceptable or not with them.  If they were to say this is okay then would stimulating men in this way be in the best interest of everyone concerned?

There needs to be conversation about these things in an effort to come to grips with the betterment of society, considering all the problems of not only abortion but also the divorce rate, the unwillingness to regard marriage as necessary to stabilize the society and culture, but instead simply live together.  Not to mention pornography in all our magazines and films, over the internet and sex crimes within our schools, homes, communities, sports, and so on.

There needs to be better education of our young in our schools and universities wherein the promulgation by government of free love, free sex, abortion and a host of diabolical sex games runs rampant.  Sex, treated and used in a way that does not degrade the true value of women will lead to a society in which pleasure is not the central focus of our lives, but love for others in need and a desire to better their lives in a nation that sees Trust in God as the most important value in our society.

The following is a link to Secretary Clinton's speech in video.  Her comment about barriers mentioned above is about 8 minutes into a half hour video.

http://news.brynmawr.edu/2012/06/12/secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-addresses-delegates-at-the-women-in-public-service-summer-institute/