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[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 140 points 5 months ago

Ya it'll be a cold day in hell before Instagram requires men to hide their nipples. Just shows how ingrained America's views on sex, sexuality and gender are in Christianity.

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 86 points 5 months ago

Christian tradition, sure, but the Bible doesn't have much to say about nipples so any specific rule regarding them seems to be more of an inference than a command.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago

The Bible stopped being a real guide for American Christians the moment they landed on our coast

[-] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Technically correct, because they weren't "American" before they landed.

They abandoned the Bible as a real guide long before that, though.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Isn’t the constitution the New New Testament.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

Doesn't stop them from using it as the "reason" for several rules

[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, and then uses Jesus' name in the same sentence as USA. The guy hated capitalism more than anything.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago

What does the pope have to say about nipples? I've seen some in Christian art (didn't touch myself to these, just in case), but didn't realize there was an opinion on this?

[-] BMTea@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

The Catechism of the Catholic Church reads:

The forms taken by modesty vary from one culture to another. Everywhere, however, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to man. It is born with the awakening consciousness of being a subject. Teaching modesty to children and adolescents means awakening in them respect for the human person." (C.C.C. # 2524)

People here are not serious, they repeat slogans and polemics very superficially. The nipple taboo is found across pre-Christian and non-Abrahamic societies, probably because of breasts' association with fertility. I.e

When did bare breasts become taboo in Western civilization?

Probably around 3,000 years ago. Women are displayed with exposed breasts in Minoan artwork from 1500 B.C. Some historians believe that these ancient women went topless only during religious rituals—bare-breasted, buxom goddesses have been worshipped since the dawn of civilization—but some of the artworks depict everyday activities, suggesting that bare breasts may have been commonplace. Just across the Mediterranean, ancient Egyptian women sported elaborate dresses that could either cover the breasts or leave them exposed, depending on the whim of the designer. Over the next few centuries, however, breasts become strictly private parts. Ancient Athenian women were wearing flowing, multilayered robes that concealed the shape of the bosom by the middle of the first millennium B.C. Spartan attire was more risqué, exposing the female thigh, but breasts were always covered.

[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago

But that would be worse?

The solution to women being treated unfairly is not to start treating men unfairly too. It's to treat women fairly.

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