Modesty: Why It’s Important
One day, in my teens, I decided to dress up for school. Unfortunately, my idea of dressing up was to emulate what I saw in the popular fashion magazines. I wound up wearing a tight miniskirt. What followed was eye-opening and shaming at the same time. People looked at me differently. Girls stared at me and whispered about me as I passed. A few guys whistled. Some leered. The boys in my class threw pencils under my desk to see if they could get a glance up my skirt. All of them paid attention to me. I admit I felt…