The Modesty Survey is a survey among girls to tell boys what they can and cannot wear. It is important that boys follow these guidelines so as not to create “stumbling blocks” for girls in their journey.
Modesty is important for all boys, regardless of height, weight, build etc.
Girls notice…
See how ridiculous most calls for modesty are when they’re applied to both genders?
(also, lmao: “Boys should not lick ice cream cones as it is a stumbling block.”)
There’s a girl in my Economics section who (to be blunt) speaks like a ditzy valley girl and dresses in very tight and very little clothing. She always answers our TF’s questions with uncertainty and self-conscious giggles. It is so easy to stereotype this girl and refuse to take her seriously.
After a full semester with her, I realized something else about her today: When you actually analyze what she says — if you were to look at a transcript of the class discussions instead of watching, listening, and dismissing — you would realize that she is fucking brilliant. When everyone else is lost, she knows what’s going on. And it’s evident that she must read about economics in her free time because she supplements some answers with information that I know is not in the textbook.
It’s a shame that people dismiss others — usually girls — for the way they choose to dress or the way they speak. I’m guilty of this too. But if she can contribute this much in class, you can bet your ass that she’s going to contribute to society.
So if a boy paying for a girl is respectful, what sort of convoluted gender dynamic renders it demeaning for a girl to pay for a guy?
Screw you all. I have a steady income and I ain’t afraid to use it.
- Girls on TV: SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB
- My mother: You would never react like that. Well, nevermind. If Hillary Clinton walked in, maybe. Or that nice gay kid from Glee.
- Me: Anyone else?
- My mother: What's the dead gay Englishman's name?
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In Western culture, the practice of assigning pink to an individual gender began in the 1920s or earlier. An article in the trade publication Earnshaw’s Infants’ Department in June 1918 said: “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.” From then until the 1940s, pink was considered appropriate for boys because being related to red it was the more masculine and decided color, while blue was considered appropriate for girls because it was the more delicate and dainty color, or related to the Virgin Mary. Since the 1940s, the societal norm was inverted; pink became considered appropriate for girls and blue appropriate for boys, a practice that has continued into the 21st century.[…]It has been suggested that females prefer pink because of a preference for reddish things like ripe fruits and healthy faces, but the associated study has been criticized as “bad science”.
[Wikipedia: Pink]
My best friend from elementary school (also a girl - and a very feminine one at that) and I used to fight over the color blue. In Kindergarten, I almost bitchslapped her because she was hogging the only blue crayon. And I remember I got really pissed in second grade when her mom bought her blue blankets and pillows — so, naturally, I begged my dad to paint my entire goddamn room blue.
He did.
Seriously, though, this color inversion business just goes to show that gender norms are so incredibly fickle. Also, ripe fruits and healthy faces? Why wouldn’t boys feel compelled to like ripe fruits and healthy faces?
Bad science can be so stupid.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loahq6ZLvq1qak0qdo1_r1_500.gif)
1. I don’t like the way people believe as if there’s some prominent trend regarding how genders behave differently when they have crushes. After years of listening to my guy friends (especially during middle school) flip a shit over the girls they were crushin’ on (“Does ____ like ____?! I saw them talking in the lunch line” or “She sat next to me during English. What does that mean?!” or “She smiled when I picked her first for my team during gym!!”), I’ve realized that there truly there is no trend. Just stupid, unsubstantiated stereotypes.
….So both sexes worrying frantically about their crush’s interactions irritates me.
2. I also don’t give a shit about what evolutionary biologists or whatever say about a man’s innate desire to screw a bunch of women when he reaches a position a power. Boys, keep it in your pants after you tie the knot. I know women cheat too, but that never seems to make it into the headlines.
So cheating on your wife pisses me off.
3. The way that both genders insist on assuming stupidity in the other (girls can’t do math/science, guys are brainless horndogs) pisses me off too.
4. Girls insisting on spending over two hours getting ready and then complaining about how guys only like girls for their looks. (And giving all of us normal girls a bad rep.)
5. Girls saying they only want to marry a boy for his money, and boys saying they only want to marry a girl for her appearance. That’s generally how it goes. I do the opposite - I crack jokes sometimes about wanting to marry Darren Criss because he’s supermegafoxyawesomehot - but I’m so far from serious. If I marry, it’ll be for love.
But I’ve met people who are serious.
And they suck.
