mrs shmo, so if you are saying some women don’t feel valued so they dress immodestly to get attention or some kind of fake value, could be. there are men who pretend to value their wives but it’s just talk, just an act. they’ll say my wife is the boss but really they have a low opinion of women. but some of these women don’t help their case because they give the impression that their highest value in life is a granite countertop. I know men that don’t value anybody except famous rabbis. it’s a big problem in the yeshiva world, that only torah study matters, so then women don’t matter and neither does hardly anybody else. i guess when you have 95% of the people feeling bad about themselves, anything can happen. my observation is that tzniyus is strongest in the chassidic world, yet i keep hearing that women are pushed around there. kind of invalidates your theory unless it’s not true that women aaren’t valued there. and i believe women are very valued in the chassidic world because many mitzvos not just torah study are valued there, so that supports your theory, bottom line, be tzniyus regardless of how anybody around you acts.
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