To Reveal or Not To Reveal: Modesty, Jewish Feminism, and the Male Gaze
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I think modesty is more than clothes. It’s of the heart. Just as nakedness is more than being without clothes.
Hashem was ok about Adam an Eve being naked in the garden. They were free to be themselves.
Being immodest has something to do with wanting the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
When males tell females it’s to do with how much of their bodies are showing, they are barking up the wrong tree. The tree of knowledge of good and evil.