I read the article, and after reading all of your high and to the right comments slamming and blasting the mom, the sons, and the fathers for not teaching her 4 sons to respect women. I read it 2 more times. You’re all wrong. Sorry to say that but you are.
In terms of the mom that wrote the op ed to the news paper she did say she raised her sons to respect women and even said that they did not look or stare or ogle. She even said that they didn’t even make comments about it. She even said that she didn’t even make a comment directly to them either. All she did was write a letter to a catholic college newspaper asking the students to re-evaluate their wardrobe a bit. What’s wrong with that? Now I do think the students were wrong for going out of their way to wear leggings as much as possible after the article, because to me that’s going out of your way to throw it in her face. Kind of rude honestly. If they disagreed with her opinion then fine continue on with your merry way and don’t make changes. It didn’t call for rally’s being created and a leggings day being created. To me that’s a bit of childish overkill.
Now I am a Roman Catholic and yes I do think a woman looks good in leggings. I get a woman can get away with leggings and yoga pants and yoga shorts as normal day to day outer wear, and I don’t say shit and I don’t stare, but there is still a part of me sees those things as workout wear and should only be worn while working out, in the gym, going to and from the gym. That’s the Marine in me talking though, in the Corps you were only allowed to wear PT gear while you were PT’ing or going to and from. It wasn’t authorized civilian attire and not authorized for liberty.
Ok now that that is out. Where you are not wrong is there are men out there that have been allowed to be brought up to have no respect for women or anyone else for that matter and they are out there, I do agree with that, but that’s not the op ed if the original letter though. It’s not just men though, there have been women that have been brought up to not respect women and men in general as well. Those are the ones that find you on the street and tell you off, like the one that told us about the mom that complained about her cover up. Or the one that complained about the statues. It’s both genders that have been raised with no respect, common, decency or common sense. So let’s not man bash ok.