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Originally Posted by mistyriverranch
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'This is not a problem unique to Judaism. But the Talmud, the basis for Jewish law, offers a perhaps surprising answer: It places the responsibility for controlling men’s licentious thoughts about women squarely on the men.
Put more plainly, the Talmud says: It’s your problem, sir; not hers.'
So, it would appear that this issue, from the religious standpoint, should not be one of segregating women nor forcing them to dress in a certain way, but of men learning how to control their lower impulses.
A similar thing occurs among Muslims, with the garb some force their women to wear. All that the Koran says is that men and women are to dress modestly, yet the men are evidently so fearful of their lack of control of their own impulses that they force women to dress in what looks like bedsheets.
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