Pam said (June 2, 2008):

I simply don't understand when it suddenly became acceptable to walk around in public looking like you are either ready to put out the garbage or you are on your way to the gym.
Around here, we now see young girls and older women running to the convenience store in pajama bottoms and slippers! I mean, come on.. that's a bit too convenient! Then, these women who could care less about their appearance in public, wonder why their husbands are cheating on them or looking elsewhere for attention.

Andre said (April 25, 2008):

Can't stop counting all these women in
blue jeans in the streets of Amsterdam now, haha! Spot on.

I travelled through Eastern Europe in 2006/2007, and man, the girls and women in Lithuania, Poland,
estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Ukraine: skirts, dresses, stockings, high heels, and only an occasional jeans.

Life looks more pleasant that way. It adds freshness,vitality, and a proper distinction between the two genders. This situation is changing for the worse already however, with the Western (American) culturalization emerging, so see how that one develops.

Rachel said (April 22, 2008):

I usually quite enjoy your articles, and for the most part completely agree with your take on feminism, and its destructive influence to families and relationships.

However, I must admit, I did feel a little bad when I read your Blue-Jeans article.
I wear blue-jeans; not because I am trying to look like a man or be a lesbian..but because they fit my shape better than skirts and dresses. When you are a woman, and have a little extra chub in your hips and tummy, jeans kind of suck that in a bit and give you a little more confidence. I tried wearing dresses and pretty skirts, but it just ends up making me look kind of dumpy and unkempt, I guess because I have short legs and a big bum.
I try to offset the jeans with a feminine blouse or top, because I don't want to look like I don't care about myself.
My husband (who is from Tunisia) loves the feminine look on women, but he and I both agree that I look the best in a pair of nice jeans (not the ripped or cruddy kind..)
---

Rachel,

Thanks Rachel,

You're an exception! Trust me, it's eerie in my "progressive" neighborhood to see so many people dressed the same way like they've become pod people.

Henry

Carmen said (April 22, 2008):

I laughed when I saw your article because our 22 year old daughter and I just had a discussion about jeans and femininity yesterday. She had been shopping and came home with two new skirts. I complimented her on her good taste and told her how much lovlier girls look in skirts or dresses. She agreed though argued jeans with a great blouse and heels can be veryattractive.

I stopped wearing pants altogether and have always
preferred feminine clothes. Do you think there will be a backlash against jeans and girls/women will once again long for the beauty and glamour that is so missing in our unisex culture?

--Carmen,

I expect a backlash if and when our kulture manipulators decide it is necessary, perhaps after a particularly devastating war, as after WW2.

henry

Toni said (April 21, 2008):

I enjoyed your article. You caused me to truly think about this issue, which has become so commonplace in our culture, one hardly gives it a second glance.

I wear both pants and skirts/dresses and I readily admit that I feel very different when I am wearing a skirt as opposed to pants. The way people dress does affect their behavior.

I am a stay at home mother of two small children but before that, I managed a retail store that catered to upscale dishes and giftware and therefore had a majority of female customers as well as employees. When I was hired, it was mandatory that all female employees must wear dresses or skirts and dress shoes. When I became manager and was responsible for the interviewing and hiring, I can't tell you how many women were so apalled that they actually left the interview right then and there! Imagine, a dress code of skirts for women was a deal breaker for accepting a job!

A few years into my employment with this small, family owned business, they relaxed their dress code and allowed dress pants. As one would expect, the envelope was pushed, and employees showed up for work in stretch knit pants, tight fitting pants and then the tops and shoes started to get more casual as well. Additionally, the hair styles, makeup and accessories became either lessened or more casual. I am not suggesting a direct correlation here, but not long after, the sales figures plumetted and the company went into bankruptcy.

I think the lesson here is that when the women employees started dressing for comfort, they started looking less professional and consequently, they started acting less professional. With certain types of products, such as dishes and silverware, the customers rely on the expertise of the salesperson to guide them into making a wise decision on a typically expensive and lifelong purchase. Possibly, the customers no longer felt a sense of professionalism and expertise from the salespersons that was felt with the previous dress code.

This is but one of many changes in our modern society that has caused problems over the decades and I thank you for shedding light on it.

Toni

Philip said (April 21, 2008):

Almost all the comments advocating for the wearing of jeans come from females. They are so programmed, they just cannot see it.

They like wearing Jeans. They think either they, or their daughters look `beautiful in Jeans, and they think you and I and the rest of `menkind` are from another planet because we can see what is happening and they, because they are `inside` the hole dug for them by the NWO, cannot.

I think this point must be made. Many say they are not feminists, but in fact they are. The ideology is so deeply entrenched now, that all western females have succumbed to some extent.

James said (April 21, 2008):

Good to see some reaction to the jeans article, but maybe the older women who wrote in missed the point. Women are the fairer sex, and more physically vulnerable having to do with reproductive biology. Our survival as a species depends on keeping them safe, so as men our natural instincts are to treat them carefully, much differently than fellow males. In the modern world women feel they have to be ‘tough’, that is be able to support themselves, whether in pants or a skirt. Wearing pants is just fashion to a large extent, and especially denim, since it falls apart with every wash.

As a man, women in jeans does look like ‘proletariat’ fashion choice. Of course jeans are ‘easier’ to wear, you can act and behave like a man all day - and that’s the point. Our world is collapsing around us, Henry has pointed out fashion which people actually do notice. Maybe people can then start to notice other things like the planes over head creating the ‘square shaped clouds’, and how it seems hotter down below after they do that.

Rudy said (April 21, 2008):

I found a 1970's high school text book title "Second Skin" in it it confirms what you have written about women looking like women and men looking like men. The idea being that wearing unisex clothing helps blurr the line between the genders, therefore causing wider acceptance of homosexuality thru androgenius fashions.
I go to a traditional church where women are taught to wear women clothing, having long hair and wearing only female garb many of the young women think this is oppressive. I remember seen one of the young woman wearing pants for the first time I felt as if I had seen her naked, as jeans hug the contour of the body, I was very dissapoited, as the worldly custom is to flaunt what you have. I believe God enveloped sex appeal in a mystery only to be revealed to your husband in the privacy of a bed chamber. When a women reveals herself in the manner of dress she is giving away part of that mystery and will be looked at only as sex object.

Nancy from Iowa said (April 21, 2008):

Your article on jeans is absolutely the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. I don't personally wear them since my anatomy is too large to look good in them, but my beautiful feminine daughter and my two equally feminine daughters-in-law wear them.

Two of them are stay-at-home mothers and both home school their children. They breast fed their children forever. Our daughter breast fed her youngest at great jeopardy to herself since she could not go on a stronger antibiotic for Lyme Disease until she weaned her daughter at age one. To say these beautiful ladies are feminists is about as far from the truth as I could even imagine. The third does not have children yet, but she is not a feminist either. Far from it! She does work outside the home as they have no children and have only been married a short time. She harvests corneas for transplant, a profession which serves her fellow man to the greatest capacity. They would all tell you they wear jeans because they are comfortable, practical and you don't have to worry about exposing something you don't want exposed when you climb to the top of the playtower to retrieve a crying child or bend over to tie untied shoes or tackle the dog who is chasing after the pet rabbit. They would be so highly offended by your article that I would not dream of sending it to them. They would also think you had lost your mind.

---
Nancy,

Living in Iowa doesn't meaning feminine women need to dress like field hands.

henry

C. Evans said (April 21, 2008):

I take umbrage at your comments against women. Not for qualification, but rather evidence contrary to what you purport, I am a stay at home mother of 4 who home schools. I wear jeans quite often and I look pretty damn beautiful for myself and my husband who, which should be surprising to you, still has a set. I do not wear them for you or your pleasure should you happen to walk by me down the street, nor is my mission in life to sacrifice for an adulterer such as Mrs. Spitzer, whom you so admire for doing so. If that makes me a lesbian in your mind, you can go fuck yourself.

I'm afraid sir, you've bought into a very cultish attitude similar to the Illuminati. It seems that they've accomplished their goal in you with the bitterness and extremism you demonstrate in your writing. Why stop at jeans? Why not have women wear burkas? Or start attacking women who drive trucks? Or drive at all! *gasp* Those girls in the photo on rense.com look nice, totally unlike the butch dike in the other. I sure hope whoever is pictured doesn't know about the equation you've made. I understand your viewpoints on feminism and agree to a certain extent; however, the way you bunch "most" or "all" women into that category is simply not true. The more you subscribe to such lunacy as jean wearing women who are unable to defy the effects of wind blown hair being lesbians, the more you alienate people who agree with you on important issues. You need to grow up.

----

Dear C. Evans,

Don't you think there is a problem when half the women are wearing the same thing, and it is what many men wear? Don't you think this indicates a sameness of attitude and an androgynous one at that? Sorry if I offended you, but your strong language suggests your choice of clothes may indeed reflect your state of mind.

--Henry

Alexandra said (April 20, 2008):

I'm very anti-feminism but I don't really see anything wrong with a woman wearing jeans, so long as they aren't skin-tight. Women's jeans have a different cut than men's jeans. I also do not believe that a woman who wears pants is necessarily trying to be masculine...I know in my case it's an issue of function and of comfort.

Four hundred years ago, hosiery was considered masculine. Today, a man wearing hose would probably be considered queer. It's a matter of culture, the way I see it. In Scotland some men wear kilts.

If I wear jeans I generally make it a point not to wear a T-shirt with them...in the winter I wear a nice turtleneck top and sweater, in the summer a nice feminine-looking top. I also have long hair.

Now what I do NOT like seeing is girls wearing jeans torn at the knee or anywhere else. That just looks slovenly. Or tattoos...to me that screams "trash."

But I do have to wonder at women who lop off just about all their hair and try to dress like a lumberjack.

I don't think there's anything inherently unfeminine about wearing jeans, it's how you wear them and what you wear with them, in my opinion.

PS.I also want to add that there are people using Old Testament verses to condemn women who wear pants. But the sexes didn't dress that differently back then, and here's a good site that explains it:

http://www.ifbreformation.org/Review_Women_wearing_pants.aspx

Please note I'm a fundamentalist, King James Bible-believing Christian. :)

--
Thanks Alexandra,

I agree that sometimes jeans can be more comfortable for a woman but I still think their popularity is a reflection of feminist influence.

best wishes

henry

Andrew said (April 20, 2008):

Jeans have become androgynous and androgyny is a turn-off. Most current casual dress fashion is calculated to blur gender difference and unisex is confusing.

Rob said (April 20, 2008):

Deuteronomy 22:5.

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are ABOMINATION unto the Lord thy God.

If God made you a woman, then dress like a woman.
If God made you a man, then dress like a man.

When people say to me that it does not matter how we dress, I always ask them this question, “If you had a four year old boy, would you dress him in a long pink dress with ribbons and bows ?”

They always answer, “No” I then ask, “Why not ?” they reply “Because he is a boy not a girl”

I then state, “So it does make a difference !”

Jeff said (April 20, 2008):

I've traveled to Bangladesh three times. The young ladies and women are incredibly attractive. I can barely describe it; it was shocking. Their culture has not been brainwashed. So, young ladies and women are naturally feminine. It was an amazing, indescribable breath of fresh air! After seeing how naturally feminine women can and should be, it's sad that I don't find women in the States as attractive.

Philip Jones said (April 20, 2008):

I have heard and read all the excuses that so called `modern` women use to justify their ever increasingly masculine appearance and manner; "It's too cold for a skirt, it's not practical, men look at me, I might show my knickers if I bend over too far, and the last thing I want is to appear as being prim and proper. " (Much better to appear as a man or a slut).

Piffle ! Eileeen [below]resorts to the ultimate of feminist cliches `Insecure Chauvinist Males`. How many times have we heard that one ? This is `Critical Theory`, a technique perfected by the `Frankfurt School` in general and Theodore Adorno in particular, in order to negate valid debate from the opposition by causing an opponent to waste their time defending character instead of argument.

Eileen, it is you who are the chauvinist, and clearly the one with the insecurity issues. Perhaps you just don't look good in dress, or you are afraid of your own sexuality, or maybe, just maybe you wish you'd been born a man. I don't know, but if the shoe (or jeans) fit !

The fact is that when women feel the need to become like men in order to achieve their much desired equality, then they have in essence failed, because they are conceding that the masculine is superior to the feminine (a point with which I do not concur by the way).

I do not believe that men take women in trousers more seriously, or afford them more respect. This is an illusion propagated by ideologues and the media in order to further alienate male from female and further deconstruct the last bulwark against the `consumer` based New World Order.

As a man, I am tired of a world where feminine beauty is confused with pornographic images, and where the vast majority of women have become so unattractive, that life is debased and altered to something artificial and fabricated.

What on earth is wrong with `Prim and Proper` anyway ?

Marcos said (April 20, 2008):

On your article on jeans for women, I have to add that here in Brazil, jeans are especially tailored for women, with the function of showing the feminine shape. They also have special decoration, embroidery, etc. Brazilian jeans are sold in international stores at a very high price because of this capacity of making almost any ass look beautiful.

I also like more a beautiful dress, which women here also use, but I guess there is a ton of difference between the dikes in Denmark and in the northern countries and the latinas. Not that women here are not affected by feminism: they keep and use femininity as a weapon (which may be worse in a sense).

John said (April 20, 2008):

Firstly, I believe the woman's-right-to-vote movement in the early 20th century was a way of officially dividing husband and wife into two units when they ought to be One. Taxing them separately added to this.

Why do women maintain so much political power these days? Because men HEARKEN unto them, just as in Eden. The world has always been, and will be to the very end, a patriarchy. Women have power because men in power give it to them for a purpose: to socialize our societies and steal the fruits of our labor. Stealing fathers and mothers away from their children in the process.

If we men closed our ears to their (ever swaying) opinions, women would just step down and the natural order would ensue. When I debate a woman I listen to her every word but still DISREGARD about 90 percent of what she says as pure nonsense. Women try to win debates through eloquence and a ceaseless flow of words. An compliment on their looks or apparel will disarm a woman immediately. That's not the kind of "feathers in the wind" that I want as leaders for my country.

Annette said: "sexy blue-jeans sets men's hearts on fire". We already knew that many women use their bodies to control men. Nothing new there...

It seems to me that jeans, especially on young women, flaunt more than they conceal. As for dresses and skirts: Most of the kinds I have seen are short and quite raunchy. Needless to say they DO NOT put me in marriage mode.

Anthony said (April 20, 2008):

Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

You will not catch a Christian woman (or an Israelite woman who obeys the Law and the prophets) cutting her hair or wearearing jeans.

Deuteronomy 22:5, "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God".

Matthew 5:28, "Whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart." And she is as guilty as a street harlot, having presented herself in jeans and trousers that display her form.

I Timothy 2:9-10, "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; but (which becomes women professing godliness ) with good works".

I Peter 3:3-6, "Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters youare, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any amazement".

A woman who cuts her hair demonstrates she has rejected the headship and authority of God and man, and her husband can put her away in divorcement. Numbers 5:18; I Corinthians 1-16

Yours sincerely in the love and service of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Your brother-in-Christ,

Anthony Grigor-Scott
MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au

Dawn said (April 20, 2008):

Wearing a (modest) dress is not a trick to lure or a
magnet for cat calls; if nothing else, it's a friendly
sign to men that you won't scream at them if they
offer to open a door.

In the spirit of friendly banter with some other
female voices to the contrary:

Preparing for marriage, I followed some rules
To find the right man, one must have the right tools.
One has to decide whom one wants to attract--
The simple whoremonger or men with some tact.
Some choose drab or manly and simply don't care.
They prefer matted tresses or shortly-cropped hair.
Others choose soft and sleek in a feminine dress,
No masculine aires like the others possess.
Who's beckoned to you if the former you choose?
No wonder you're angry and singin' the blues!
A burper and belcher who calls you his b--ch
Who goes for the gusto when scratching an itch,
Who'll leave you to open the door on his car,
Then ask you to hop on a stool at the bar.
But what if you've chosen to join with the latter
And dress as if neatness and etiquette matter?
He'll open your doors and then demonstrate couth
When he takes you to dinner and asks for a booth.
No need to compete, he is thoughtful and tender;
He treasures uniqueness and your fairer gender.
He'll soon let you know you're the love of his life
He'll bed you the right way and make you his wife.
So please don't miss out on a real romance
By ditching the dresses and donning those pants!

Keep up the great work, Henry!

Dawn

http://drdawnlancaster.com
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the
size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain

Vickie said (April 19, 2008):

[Dresses and skirts send the wrong message.]
It's not much fun as a woman, to get the stares/attention that sometimes come from men, no matter what you're wearing, but especially if you're wearing a dress. Very uncomfortable to have men look at your body parts in this sexualized culture of ours.

It's shocking & makes my husband and I sick to see how men, of all ages, stare at our teen daughter. To the point that my husband and sons have said things to other men about staring at their daughter/sister!

---

Good point Vickie. But maybe there are dresses and skirts that are long enough and tailored to send the right message?

Best wishes, Henry

Annette said (April 19, 2008):

Since someone else already stated my sentiment on this, I'll write you a poem instead.

Now Henry is again about women griping...
as he sits there by his computer typing...

I think his heart has of late been hardening..
'cause he says blue-jeans are only for gardening...

Stereotypes has nothing to do with attire..
sexy blue-jeans sets men's hearts on fire..

So maybe this article contains a sour grape?
and yes, I am slim and in excellent shape..

My tight blue-jeans fit me to a T..
so Henry quit this nonsens...golly jee..

I wear my blue-jeans with pride and that is nothing real special...
But Henry...dear...I think your attitude is a bit extra terrestial...

Have a great week-end in Winnipeg.

Annette :)

--------

Annette,

Good poem! You have stumbled on a forbidden truth. Conspiracy researchers are Extra Terrestrials. Pls keep this to yourself.

Henry

Jessica said (April 19, 2008):

I threw away my blue jeans last year when I read Cruel Hoax. I noticed that ALL the women in my family and friends circles have resolutely worn dresses-only when I'm around. Women are very competetive you know. If one woman is wearing beautiful dresses all the time then the other women have to top it. The men are in a state of shock right now. I'll let you know when the men can get their mouths closed and start speaking again.

Eileen said (April 19, 2008):

I don't know what planet you live on, but to use any form of apparel and try to connect it to some gender ID, is ridiculous at best. I don't know if you realize how long jeans for women have been around, but I can tell you that I wore my first pair 56 years ago. Well before the feminist revolution and nothing to do with lesbianism. It was comfortable to wear jeans for sports at school, which by the way was compulsory for both genders at that time. As a result, no one was overweight then, either.

Jeans are comfortable and great to wear for many reasons, which has nothing whatsoever to do with gender ID. Outside work, housework, travel, shopping, etc., make the task a lot easier than wearing a skirt and having to worry about not bending over too far, etc., and looking prim and proper. Before insecure, chauvinistic males decide what is suitable for women to wear, they should be made to wear dresses and skirts and see how "feminine" they might feel and look, washing the car, doing housework, pulling weeds, mowing the lawn and looking after small children, etc.

Let's not take leave of plain old common sense. You must be running out of material for your columns. Control, no matter how it's disguised, is still control.
----

"Always keep people in your life who charge your battery, not those who drain it."
----

Eileen,

Feminism in one form or another is 3000 years old at least--as old as lesbianism. The "revolutionary" movement which gave birth to the modern form of feminism is almost 400 years old.

But I will defend to the death your right to reject my insights, however wrongheaded or brilliant they may be.

henry

Inga said (April 19, 2008):

I stopped wearing dresses sometime in the '80s and adopted the jean uniform. At about age 50, I started to learn the meaning of masculine and feminine. Two years ago, I grew out my very short haircut and now I'm ready to ditch the jeans.

Fortunately, I am a seamstress and a collector of vintage dress patterns and am therefore able to create my own frocks. It's a waste of time trying to find ready to wear dresses as most are too revealing.

My mother never, ever wore pants a day in her life. Part of my "feminine" education has had to come from old TV shows from the late 50s/early 60s on DVD. What a history lesson. It makes me sick to see how low we have sunk.

It's so rare to see a feminine woman these days, that I too, can still remember the three that I have seen in the last few years.

Deirdre said (April 19, 2008):

Really like your articles. Keep up the good work. I agree with the Jeans article. I too have tried this concept out in public. (I am 40, VERY happily married, with five children, attractive). When I wear a skirt or dress in public, doors are opened for me, people respond to me “yes Mam’, etc....

I can do almost anything in a dress or skirt that anyone else can do in a pair of pants. However I am not totally religious about it. I occasionally where jeans.

I have also run into very attractive women who dressed ‘modestly’ and who’s ideas were terrible. One also has to listen what comes from the heart, not just what is covering ones backside. My friend and I were eating out last night and noticed a fifty year old woman wearing a very tight, short skirt and like shirt. She looked ridiculous. The guy she was with didn’t seem to care, but we felt sorry for her. Young women should dress extremely modestly to protect the eyes and hearts of all men (young and old) and as women age they should be an example of keeping up modesty. Great subject for further discussion!