This is what’s stampeding women and children and frightening cattle in Montana these days…
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It doesn’t matter which party is in power. There are always knot heads that think everything is government’s business. In this case, it’s a Republican, in of all places, Montana. The Billings Gazette reports:
A Montana legislative panel moved to kill an indecent exposure bill Wednesday after the lawmaker who introduced it said he thinks yoga pants should be illegal.
Members of the House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to table House Bill 365, which Rep. David Moore introduced Tuesday.
The proposal would have expanded the definition of indecent exposure to include garments that give the appearance of a person’s buttocks, genitals, pelvis or female nipple.
The Republican from Missoula said he wouldn’t have a problem with people being arrested for wearing such provocative clothing such as tight-fitting beige garments. Moore also said yoga pants should be illegal.
Although members of the committee giggled about the bill, no discussion was allowed before a voice vote to table it.
During my police days, a fellow officer and I used to joke that the law should give us the authority to issue citations and make arrests for fashion violations, and we yucked it up pointing out various misdemeanors and felonies. But this? Do we really want to give the police authority to stop and arrest women they think might be provocatively dressed? What could possibly have possessed Moore?
Yup. It’s official: most folks look best with clothes on.
credit: themissoulian
Moore and retired professor Walt Hill drafted HB 365 after last year’s Bare as you Dare bicycle event outraged some residents last summer. Fearing that denying organizers an event permit would breach free speech, city officials allowed participants, many of them completely nude, to ride through downtown Missoula on Aug. 17.
I’m sure it was a popular event, and anyone offended simply needed to avoid downtown Missoula for a short time on 08-17-14. At last report, Missoula was undamaged by the exposure/experience. Have you ever noticed, by the way, that the participants in such events tend not to be nubile young women?
In an age where Muslims are working full time to impose their sensibilities on everyone, it’s not a bright idea to buy into the barbaric worldview that reduces women to chattel whose choices in dress render helpless, virtuous men unable to resist the urge to rape.
Thank goodness rationality prevailed, but I used to think Montanans were tougher. Don’t Montana’s legislators have any real work to do?
Stately McDaniel Manor 
Rep. David Moore reminds me of the definition of a puritanism.
Puritanism: The lurking suspicion that someone, somwhere is enjoying himself…H.L. Mencken.
Strange how it’s women’s responsibility to restrain men’s sexual impulses, but it’s men’s responsibility to control what women do with their uteruses. Because Republicans.
Bizarre, there was a regional manager of a nationwide private security company (rent a cop peddler) whose name was David Moore and he too had a bizarre mentality – which included the idea he was empowered as a kind of super dad to all employees, even those who were a decade older and 50% smarter. But in the matter of the Montana legislator: I think the most important question is how such people manage to get elected to office. The current US President and the previous one both left / leave this country without an executive branch of government – there’s been “nobody in the White House” since 2000 AD. How do these non-leader incompetents keep getting elected??
I must confess that on the occassion when I first became aware of the existence of yoga pants, I found myself attempting to be discrete as I followed the woman who was wearing them all over a Target store. I later learned that the visually descriptive term “camel toe” is not always a reference to a portion of a dromedary’s anatomy. God Bless America!
While yoga pants can be extremely flattering, or unflattering, they certainly do not violate commonly accepted interpretations of existing nudity laws. Yoga pants are becoming a commonly accepted garment right along with high hemlines and low necklines. Even Governor Palin has been photographed wearing yoga pants to a workout session (although the idiot popratzi were to obsessed with catching her without her hair and makeup done to concentrate on her yoga pants, damn it).
If politicians insist on outlawing yoga pants, perhaps the can compensate by outlawing bras?
Reblogged this on jenniferashburyinvestigations and commented:
Wow! Yoga pants illegal in Montana?! Women have absolutely NO rights in Montana!! Maybe that’s why I’ve had so many women contact me about my piece on young women being harassed by the University of Montana.
Dear Jennifer:
Welcome to SMM, and thanks for the reblog!
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