Elizabeth Cady Stanton also promoted women’s ordination. That should grab your attention. These women defied God and the Bible. They wanted gender equality, although that term wasn’t coined yet. Worldly society, led by the prince of this world, has had 150 years to refine and enlarge their agenda.
Fashion has been in lock step with the acceptance of gender equality in society as we know it today. This is a documentable reality. By getting women to dress more and more similar to men over the years, the distinction between the sexes has been blurred and all but removed entirely, so that it seems the norm. By following the gender blurring fashions of the world, the church has cooperated with the enemy in paving the way for this idea of gender equality in gender roles. Unisex fashion lends support to the idea of women’s ordination “without regard to gender.” Both concepts diminish God-ordained distinction between the sexes.
Listen to what some worldly voices are declaring today:
Fashion is a concept and an industry, yes, but at its heart is a simple act: getting dressed. Our clothing sends a message to the world, and as such, the clothing we choose is actually a powerful tool for self-expression. It allows us to express ourselves on an individual level and on a much larger scale, such as the prevailing dress codes of a nation or religion. Throughout history and throughout the world, fashion is closely tied to political movements, cultural identities, and increased visibility for marginalized groups. Clothing has the power to stoke the fires of revolution. . . . Women have fought for access to the same rights, opportunities — and, yes, clothing — as men since the beginning of the feminist movement. Today we fight against the notion that women should be judged simply on their outward appearance. If you own a pair of pants, for example, you can thank a feminist.
http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-01-23/on-fashion-feminism-and-the-power-of-self-expression/It’s 2015 and people, slowly but surely, are grasping that gender is no longer binary. Fashion may not be an industry that’s particularly celebrated for its inclusivity, but it has played a role in helping to break down conventional gender roles—championing androgynous styles and transgender models, in particular—whether that end result was planned or simply happenstance.
http://magazine.good.is/articles/selfridges-gender-defying-campaign-agender There are literally hundreds of articles and blogs that could be quoted that would show clearly that the agenda of feminism [women’s rights/women’s lib] has been providing the driving force behind the fashion of putting pants instead of skirts on women. This was a deliberate agenda, which was also urged along by the homosexual movement, which the Bible tells us is an abomination. Women’s ordination is just a spoke in the same wheel, moving society into the realm of gender neutrality.
This abominable, diabolical bandwagon society currently calls gender equality or gender neutrality has been rolling steadily along over the last 150 years, sometimes slowly, and then speeding up for a time. Gender equality may have some worthy components, but at the core, it is unbiblical and necessarily includes the homosexual agenda. The early developments of gender-blurring fashion received strong pushback from the Christian community, but the resistance waned as the shock has worn off.
The gender-blurring bandwagon carried many heroes: from Coco Channel, Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn of the 1930s, to the women’s libbers and the unisex movement of the 1970s. But finally, by 1980 all of society climbed on the wagon, and virtually no more pushback was heard. This gender blending wagon was going through to the end, crushing any who dared stand in its way. And so on it went, moving into the androgyny of the 2000s. But in 2015, it has reached a new plateau: gender neutrality. This encompasses both fashion and roles. And what a victory this is for the homosexual community!
Listen to the voice of the world as they talk about this bandwagon:
In a personal piece in The Guardian today, writer Sophie Wilkinson claims that all of us jumping on the gender-neutral bandwagon have “ruined” her wardrobe.
http://www.xojane.com/fashion/is-gender-nuetral--fashion-butch-appropriation She goes on to explain that now with “straight” people wearing gender neutral fashions, the gays can no longer show their sexual preference by what they wear.
Keep in mind what God designed, and note the contrast to what the world is saying.
God designed that there should be a plain distinction between the dress of men and women, and has considered the matter of sufficient importance to give explicit directions in regard to it; for the same dress worn by both sexes would cause confusion and great increase of crime. {1T 460.1}
God designed a plain distinction between the sexes; Satan promotes blurring and confusion. Where is society today? Listen to their own description:
We are living in a time of gender revolution. Traditional masculine and feminine roles are being challenged through advances in science and technology, and by cultural shifts stemming from the evolution of sexual politics and media depictions of gender. Identity is no longer clearly defined as female or male, but by increasingly visible manifestations of sexuality or lack thereof. . . With the confusion of gender roles today, outward appearances are often confusing. Boys look like girls, girls look like boys, and androgyny has become commonplace. People are typically assigned a gender and history, but they can decide what gender to identify with beyond this.
http://www.metropolismag.com/March-2015/His-or-Hers-Designing-for-a-Post-Gender-Society/ As we tune in to what the youth of today are thinking, it should open our eyes to the extent of this issue which is labeled a “post-gender bandwagon.” The majority of the young people have embraced this agenda. Along with it goes acceptance for gay marriage.
An Intelligence Group survey from 2013 found that more than two-thirds of Millennials believe gender no longer defines a person as it once did. NPR hopped on the Millennials are post-gender bandwagon with a recent piece citing men wearing nail polish and women wearing suits as further support for the idea that young people refuse to conform to traditionally defined masculinity and femininity. . . They support same sex marriage.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2014/12/23/will-millennials-be-trapped-by-traditional-gender-roles/More than just about the way you dress, unisex is about gender equality. We are closing the gap between masculine and feminine and gender is not a strong classification anymore. 79 percent of Millennials believe that gender roles have blurred (Protein Gender Report). . . . Unisex is a cultural mirror of what is happening in our society right now. In the future, hopefully this will contribute to a more gender-equal society.
http://www.psfk.com/2015/03/artsy-algorithm-auction-artsy-code-is-art.htmlIf you Google the words “gender” and “neutral” and “fashion” you will see new articles about this topic appearing daily. This is the topic of the day. Tomorrow, one will find even more blatant abominations under the name of gender neutral fashion. Here are a few recent excerpts:
Fashion is currently surpassing androgyny and boyfriend jeans and tending toward clothing that is genderless or gender-neutral.
http://www.xojane.com/fashion/is-gender-nuetral--fashion-butch-appropriationFashion’s Bold New Future Has No Gender . . . much of what passes for men’s and women’s clothing these days is separated by a line that’s barely perceptible." The great gender blur," Ruth La Ferla called it in the New York Times, writing about the fall collections coming out of the most recent New York Fashion Week. "That deliberate erosion on the runways of a once rigid demarcation between conventionally feminine and masculine clothes." . . . In fact, fashion has a fairly rich history of experimenting with, and even embracing, androgyny, from the suiting favored by Katherine Hepburn all the way up through decidedly non-girly grunge (both the original and rehabilitated versions). Over the last several years, the broader cultural shift in how we view gender has also picked up speed in the fashion industry, where they like to think they’re on the forefront of these things.
http://www.racked.com/2015/3/17/8218321/gender-neutral-clothes-unisexThe gender bandwagon is definitely speeding up in the fashion industry. While the past has been more focused on women dressing like men, now men are beginning to dress like women:
As the latest menswear collections indicate, we’re moving ever closer and closer to a society in which gender simply doesn’t matter — from gender neutral bathrooms to Facebook’s embrace of the gender spectrum and iconic Selfridges doing away with binary clothing departments all together. Fashion can either re-enforce or radically alter traditional gender roles — but it also interprets cultural shifts. And the transformation we are seeing in the Millennials’ understanding of gender is starting to be reflected everywhere, from Hollywood to high school and the workplace. For the past 50 years or so, women’s fashion has had a notable flirtation with le masculine, but increasingly men’s fashion, too, has straddled the gender divide.
http://www.queerty.com/photos-fashions-incredible-catwalk-towards-a-gender-fluid-society-20150312The gender equality movement is inclusive of the transgender equality movement, which is picking up speed and power. This is all part of Satan’s plan to destroy the God-ordained family.
The growing presence of transgender people in society and business is also driving the gender-neutral fashion shift. “Fashion is a reflection of what’s going on in society,” Costa says. “Times are different, and therefore, fashion needs to be as well.”
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/19/gender-neutral-clothing-future-fashion