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SJSinNYC
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Squeak, the point about it being a mitzvah for women having nothing to do with men is this: I keep the halachos of tznius because its commanded to ME. I don’t keep it to help a man with shmiras eynayim. Its a great side effect, but its not the reason I keep the halacha.

So if a man comes up to me and says “I find bare legs (below the knee, halachically acceptable according to my rabbonim) too alluring, please cover them” then I am not going to. I am not keeping the halacha according to my shitta for HIS sake. I am keeping it to conform to my halachic standards. Otherwise, Orthodox Jewish women would end up in burqas.

I am only responsible to ensure that I keep halacha, I cannot control what others do. No matter how tzanua (or lack thereof) I dress, it does not exempt a man from his mitzvah of shmiras eynayim. Remember, side effect, not root cause.

[see my illness/antibiotics analogy posted back in this thread]