Dumb Question?

They say that the only dumb question is the one not asked, right?  Well, today - I may have just found the one.

I subscribe to a parenting site.  About once a week, I receive an e-mail that recaps the highlighted questions of the week.  In all honesty, I didn't go farther than the e-mail so all I saw was the question.  But, that question alone is leading to this blog post.  Watch out folks, as Marty likes to call it, your about to see my "passion".  :)

Here's the question.  Are you ready for this?  Are you SURE your ready for this?  I don't think you are, but here it goes anyway.

What is the appropriate age for my daughter to start wearing thong underwear?

Can you see me shaking my head?  Can you feel the steam rolling off of me, the fire coming out of my eyes?  I read that, and I was like a bull who warns the person it's about to nail his horns into, dragging it's foot across the sand and lowering it's head.  If you think it's appropriate for your daughter to wear a thong - you might want to just close out of this post right about now.

WHAT?  Okay - do we need to have a little lesson on thong underwear people??  THINK!  WHAT does thong underwear represent?  I can tell you right now that any normal guy that sees the thong underwear hanging outside of your daughters low-rise jeans - I can tell you what he thinks.  I'm not going to put it here - but you know dog gone well what that represents.  And - by the way - if I EVER saw my daughter with low rise jeans and a thong sticking out of them - well - now she's 18 - but first of all, I wouldn't be seen in public with her and second of all - I would make her change her underwear before she came in my house!  No - I'M NOT KIDDING!  And, besides, my daughter wouldn't do that.

Why do you need to ask when it's appropriate?  It's not.  If you need to ask, then something in you thinks that it's okay for your daughter, who lives in your house, to buy them.  Come on - we all know they are not comfortable!  Now, I know someone will tell me they don't wear them to attract attention - but with the whole fact that your picking them out of your behind all day - WHY would you choose to wear them if not to draw attention?  I know, I know, I'm old.

Anyway.  The point is this.  Please don't buy your daughter thong underwear.  Please don't put that temptation in front of every hot (and normal) blooded guy she comes across.  It's a tease.  It's not modest.  It's just not.  I would really be surprised to learn people wear them as "normal" underwear and not as something more.  Maybe there are people out there - but I don't know - the thought of my daughter wearing thong underwear before she gets married - it just makes me cringe.  I certainly wouldn't be buying them for her.

Please train your daughters to be modest.  Please don't make it any harder on guys than it already is.  Help her to learn to save what she has for the eyes of the guy she marries and not for everyone else.  Also keep in mind - it's not just her teenage guy friends that look.  It's not.  I hate to say that - but it's true.  Last summer I was in a parking lot at a gas station and some girls thought it would be "cool" to let a 40 year old guy take pictures of them in front of his old car - and he managed to convince them to take it down to their very skimpy bikinis.  They were teenagers.  He used his camera.  I can tell you right now those pics, if not just for his personal enjoyment, went on the Internet or were shared with his friends.  This is not a nice world people and the devil is looking to devour your daughter any way he can.

I'm sorry for being so - well - blunt.  Honestly - I'm just looking out for your kid.  Help them to live in such a way that leads to life and not death and destruction.  Please.

End rant.  I'm good now - if you made it thus far - good job.  Tomorrow I may have a few less hits on my blog, but, this is how I feel.