A woman's sense of Dignity in our perverted world today

This summer it has really become evident to me that women have really found ways to demoralize ourselves. We must have the lowest self-esteem ever! We even pass it on to our little toddlers, 10 year olds and pre-teen girls. Walked through the grocery store the other day and saw a girl who couldn’t have been more than 10 years old wearing short shorts, wedges that were way to tall for her and a shirt that if she was 5 years older would make the guys say nasty perverted comments about her to her face and behind her back. My first thought was why in the world would her mother let her dress like that and walk out of the house?  Then I realized this girl was too young to be going to the mall and picking out her own clothes which means, mommy dearest was the one who picked out the outfit.

Now I am not saying that women should go back to the 1800’s and wear dresses that come up to our necks and down to cover our toes, but don’t you think that it’s about time we take back our divine power as women and give a little mystery to what we have?  We should teach our daughters what self respect is, and also give ourselves more credit to our gender than just our looks. Sure it’s nice to be noticed, everyone enjoys someone checking them out once in a while, but don’t we want our daughters coming home with men who aren’t just in it for ‘that one thing?’ I personally would want my daughter coming home with the guy who ‘checked her out,’ because she seemed personable and nice, not because she went out with hardly any clothes on her figure.

The worst part is that you can find mom’s dressing their toddlers in outfits much the same as this girl had on at 10 and people commenting on, “oh how cute are you.” Really!?!?! This is cute!? I do not find little girls in bikini’s to be cute or little toddlers in belly shirts, short shorts and the like.  It’s rude to teach your daughter to dress to show off every ounce of skin she owns. No wonder girls grow up and think that the only way they can get a guy is by having as much of their cleavage show as possible and pray to God they get long skinny sexy legs so that they can wear short shorts and show off a little extra skin there too. No wonder women of today do not know who they are as an individual and serve a purpose worth living in this life. What happened to conservatively dressing our girls so that they can be ‘cute,’ but not ‘sexy?’ Dress them so that they look like they have pride in themselves as an individual and not just in their body.

Honestly I know I don’t have any girls but here is the thing, I have two wonderful boys and if they ever brought home a girl they were interested in who dressed like that I would make them sit at home and I would drive her home no questions asked probably escort her butt right up to her door. I do pray though that my boys find a better sense of respect for women and just know to stay away from a woman, girl who dresses for physical attention.

I really do not understand the mom’s who are Christians who allow their daughters to dress in such fashion.  We are daughters of Christ and we are to be examples of his Bride. We are to be lights of Christ in this world and be different, set the examples of confident women because of who we are in Jesus Christ. We should not only be portraying that to the rest of the world but also helping our daughters understand what true confidence is and where our true self worth comes from, helping them to grow into the daughter of Christ that he would be proud to call His bride. We all know as grown women that Christ would be the last one to look at the outward appearance when looking for his Bride.

Let’s take back our sense of pride as women, put a little mystery back into the game and teach our girls what it means to dress appropriately and pleasing to God. There is no shame when we reach heaven for covering our daughters up too much, only shame in not teaching them the moral values that the Bible instructs us to give them. Titus 2:3-5 "teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure"  

Your daughters are truly beautiful, let’s teach them to portray their inner beauty more than the outer beauty. Teach them to stop being so vein and conceited. Stop teaching the daughters to be flakey and fake. Teach them to find their true beauty which is found within and will undoubtedly when found be revealed on the outside. 

Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.