From LD: "Why so much fuss about mini-skirts? After all they are skirts, a feminine attire par excellence. Aye, they may not be so much mini-skirts as maxi-knickers these days ... but that's another issue.
Anyway, skirts -even if mini or microscopic- are skirts at the end of the day. I think it was Brazilian Bishop de Castro Mayer who said that he'd rather have women in mini-skirts than in trousers since the former attack the senses, but the latter the intellect."
Well I'm not sure if the Bishop's comments are something I can agree with, but I do know that one of the great things about the Catholic tradition is that we are taught to have a sense of proportionality. There is a time and a place for most things.
Certainly, a mini-skirt on a sixteen year old girl is wholly inappropriate, but in certain times and places they may be quite beautiful and appropriate for a grown woman. To claim that women exhibiting any sexuality is "the beginning of the cycle" to reducing women to mere sex objects would have to lead us to the conclusion that women should wear potato sacks every day, or better yet, burqas, since some women, merely by showing their beautiful faces can lead men to sexual thoughts.
Maybe its just my Latin roots, but I have no problem with beautiful women being sexy within reason. After all, sexuality is as much a part of a person as his or her intellect, and to deny this seems like wishful thinking, and perhaps proof of the puritanism that has seeped into American Catholicism.
