Reply To: Short Skirts

Avram: A small minority of them. Additionally, I’ve started very many more threads on Zionism (among many more topics) than this; should I supply that number as well?

Why is it that this particular topic makes people nervous? When discussing Zionism, Loshon Hora, Kashrus, Kollel, or Shidduchim you never have anywhere the number of complaints against even daring to have the hava mina of even talking about the subject. I submit that this is directly because the difficulty many have (both female and well as male head of households who carry the sacred obligation of enforcing them) in complying with the laws on the issue of tznius. And that’s all the more reason to discuss it.

“In my experience, men in the real world do not sit and schmooze together about this.”

I can’t speak about your experience, but in the densely populated centers of Judaism, such as in Eretz Yisroel, New York and elsewhere, this topic is very much and often raised by Rabbonim in droshos to both men and women, as well as reminders placed on posted notices in the communities and is certainly often discussed among the Klal and Yeshivaleit as a topic of Halacha and Limud Torah.

I don’t recall you objecting to discussions here of other halachic topics. Even if it applied primarily to one gender or the other. This particular topic is at least as much the responsibility of fathers and husbands as it is of female members of the family.