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Mother Who Knows
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Date: August 31, 2019 04:58AM
Still laughing about Elderolddog's mustache comment....
My TBM SIL is in the bishopric, and he has tattoos, and wears a beard, off and on. These are fine for men, and not for women. The RS president has multiple holes in her ears, but on Sunday, wears only one earring per ear. Those empty holes look gross.
Many of the rules at BYU make no sense, and we girls tested the rules, and they failed:
We had "dorm hours" at Helaman Halls. If we came in late, after dorm hours, we were subject to punishments, such as cleaning the dorm bathrooms. (What is it with Mormons and bathrooms?) However, if we didn't go back to the dorm AT ALL, and stayed out ALL NIGHT, and spent the night who-knows-where, we could walk into the dorm anytime after 7:00 am the next morning, when they unlocked the doors, and no one would punish us. (There were random bed-checks, but those were bogus, and dorm-mates would say we were in the bathroom, or ironing, or cooking, or in the overflow room, or somewhere in the dorm. One year, there was a lovely girl on the bottom floor, who kept her window open a crack, for late entries--no questions asked.)
We weren't allowed into the campus movie in the Wilkinson Center wearing pants; but, we were allowed into the campus movie wearing no pants at all! (We were wearing knee-length coats, and took our pants off.)
We weren't allowed to wear bikinis or two-piece swim suits, or even one-piece modest swim suits at the Richards PE pool; but, we were forced to wear the "regulation" swim suits. These suits were so thin that every goose bump showed through. When the suit was wet, our breasts looked like we were naked, with black paint painted on. If we opted for the loose, baggy look, the neckline of the suit would be way too low. The regulation suits for the men made it clear who was circumcised or not.
No. Students were not allowed to wear another swim suit under the regulation suits. We tried that every time we went. Nope. At a YM/YW swim-and-stare party, we were so embarrassed, that we a few of us girls kept our bras and panties on under the regulation suits. The workers told us we could not wear any underwear under the suits. So, we wore our underwear OVER the regulation swim suits. This was a big hit at the party, until we were kicked out of the pool.
All this poses the questions, "What is modest?" and "What is moral?" and "What makes sense?"