Dear Chupy,

Did you see this, Sunday?…

From Anne K. Ream at la Times:
“What is it about the growing "modesty movement" that makes me so nervous? On the face of it, there's a lot to like about a girl-driven "revolution" that offers an alternative to the in-your-face fashion popularized by the Britneys and Bratz of the world. When a statement T-shirt can turn a girl from a subject to an object — "I'm blond. I don't need to be good at math" — in no time flat, who could argue that a return to sartorial decency is in order?

Enter the modesty movement. On Web sites such as Modestly Yours, Modesty Zone and DressModestly.com, the movement's adherents argue for curfews on college campuses, decry coed bathrooms and advocate a "chaste but chic" dress code for teens and young women. They call themselves sexual revolutionaries, but that might be something of a misnomer: In their world, abstinence is the order of the day and female virtue is the best way to ensure female safety.”

-This sounds more of the same male devised schemes for proper female conduct. Like that’s working for us, after all, we trail some third-world countries in measures of reproductive health and infant mortality.

“Marketers are getting modest, too. Macy's now carries "Shade" clothing, created by a team of Mormon women devoted to demure dress, and Nordstrom features "Modern and Modest" apparel.”

-Can burkas be next? If I don’t keep my opinions to myself about fashion sense, certain persons that I know are liable to react like I was cutting off their oxygen. Good luck with that; though this stuff might sell like hell to the Goth or Emo crowd.

We got our own Ayatollahs here. Just last week, Gary Trudeau recycled the old joke about how seen from the Moslem perspective, western women dress like prostitutes.

We have no shortage of sex-obsessed bozos in our own Texas Legislature.

Planned Parenthood is the biggest provider of reproductive health services in Texas. They could serve more women and families if they didn’t have to defend themselves from right-wing grandstanders in every legislative session.

Sometimes I see foreign and domestic policies cross. If this administration uses lies, fear, and dogma to take us into war, should we be surprised to see that they promote shotgun weddings to raise cannon fodder?

What Would Jenna Do?