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Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 11:11 PM Aug 2015

The Duggar Way of keeping men's eyes pure

In the book “Growing Up Duggar,” the Duggar daughters write that their family has a code word (“Nike”) that they use to warn their dad and brothers to keep their eyes on their shoes when a woman who is deemed to be too immodestly dressed is approaching, “to help keep the guys’ eyes from seeing things they shouldn’t be seeing.”

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/josh-duggars-ashley-madison-problem


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The Duggar Way of keeping men's eyes pure (Original Post) Generic Other Aug 2015 OP
A Nike missile in firing position. onehandle Aug 2015 #1
Looks like he.......er...it's ready for liftoff! CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2015 #2
Shit. That's nuthin'. My dogs got a red rocket. Hoppy Aug 2015 #3
'Cause it's their fault, you see shenmue Aug 2015 #4
Do these fucking males take ANY responsibility? Tree-Hugger Aug 2015 #5
I hope they stone those scantily clad harlots. LuvNewcastle Aug 2015 #6
They also don't go swimming spinbaby Aug 2015 #7
Of course not. Those tramps have willfully grown boobies to lay a trap for good Christian menfolk. Arugula Latte Aug 2015 #20
I suppose that "Nike" is better than raping children Orrex Aug 2015 #8
Swoosh! n/t Gormy Cuss Aug 2015 #11
impossibility of self control. Javaman Aug 2015 #9
Nike, nike, incoming women. iemitsu Aug 2015 #19
what a truly bizarre way to live ones life. nt Javaman Aug 2015 #21
Seems bizarre to me. iemitsu Aug 2015 #22
"Just do it" nt babydollhead Aug 2015 #10
I'll bet they have to say that a lot...creeps. Saphire Aug 2015 #12
It is obviously the way to raise male children. Ace Rothstein Aug 2015 #13
The winner! hamsterjill Aug 2015 #18
they loathe women--but they're not that keen on men, either! MisterP Aug 2015 #14
The real, hardcore fundies truly hate their own humanity at a bone-deep level. hifiguy Aug 2015 #15
i always thought the side hugs with siblings was weird JI7 Aug 2015 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author Kingofalldems Aug 2015 #17

Tree-Hugger

(3,370 posts)
5. Do these fucking males take ANY responsibility?
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 06:09 AM
Aug 2015

They expect women to remind them to avert their eyes from other women? These fundamentalist cults are immoral and satanic.

LuvNewcastle

(16,855 posts)
6. I hope they stone those scantily clad harlots.
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 07:03 AM
Aug 2015

There's nothing worse than a fallen woman tempting good Christian men with a peek at her knee.

spinbaby

(15,090 posts)
7. They also don't go swimming
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 07:15 AM
Aug 2015

Forget where I read it--a People magazine at the doctor's, I think--but the family doesn't go to pools or beaches lest the menfolk get a glimpse of women's bodies.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
20. Of course not. Those tramps have willfully grown boobies to lay a trap for good Christian menfolk.
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 09:36 PM
Aug 2015

Javaman

(62,534 posts)
9. impossibility of self control.
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 08:40 AM
Aug 2015

for a group of religious zealots I find it interesting that the men in the family are unable to exhibit a little self control.

as much as they teach women to be subservient to men, they also seem teach the men that they have no self control.

what a bunch of clowns indeed.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
14. they loathe women--but they're not that keen on men, either!
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 01:48 PM
Aug 2015

it's like with the white supremacists: they never do seem to encounter any *real* white people that ever meet their approval, do they?

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
15. The real, hardcore fundies truly hate their own humanity at a bone-deep level.
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 01:58 PM
Aug 2015

They think it keeps them from being "closer to gawd" or some such incomprehensible nonsense.

JI7

(89,264 posts)
16. i always thought the side hugs with siblings was weird
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 02:03 PM
Aug 2015

I'm thinking a lot of these things started because of the issues with josh duggar.

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