Reply To: Tznius

smalltowngirl: Sometimes if people feel they are being lectured or being dictated to by a Rebbitzin/Rabbi/Teacher, they shut down and don’t want to accept it or won’t even listen. I wanted to by-pass that type of reaction. I wanted to let everyone know that I’m just a regular person, just like them.

On the other hand, other people will only respect what is being said if it comes from an authority figure. Oh well!

I am only being truthful when I say that I am not a Rebbitzin and as Joseph says, many MO people, and all the MO people that I know identify themselves in this way.

I am educated, and work outside of the home not in the chinuch world so it may appear that I’m MO.

This does not make you MO. Modern Orthodoxy is specific group of people who want to distinguish themselves from more traditional orthodoxy.

BTW, I am also not in a specific category. I am a Bais Yaakov girl who is college-educated, which is not unusual in the NY area. I don’t usually label myself and try not to label others, but when speaking about tznius, this is useful for the sake of clarity.