Good Grief

Why would this child’s mother let her out of the house like this?.
Now the headlines claim “arrested for prom dress”, which is not exactly true. The police were called over the commotion caused when she was asked to leave because her dress was inappropriate.
That being the case, I really don’t see how this is as newsworthy as the original headlines make it out to be.
However, I am just so frustrated. Why do girls no longer see beauty in something beautiful? Why do they only see beauty in skimpy? How skimpy does a dress have to be these days to be the nicest dress, because Oh Girl’s doesn’t leave any room for hers to be topped. I keep thinking about when I was a very small girl, and how I would love to play dress-up with my patent-leather Mary Janes, little white gloves and anything frilly and pink. How sad for someone so young to have already lost that childhood simplicity.
I often feel like The Modesty Police and oddly, it is not a subject I am that obsessed with. I am just tired of women being objectified. God gifted us when he made us the more visually beautiful of the two sexes. But this isn’t beauty. I don’t know what this is.This is taking God’s delicate art and saying “it needs more color” and spray painting it fluorescent pink.
What I also don’t understand is where are her parents? Why isn’t her father barring the door with a shot gun “Hell no you ain’t going out the house looking like that!” Isn’t that what fathers do? Why isn’t her mother telling her “I know you think this is pretty, but this is not appropriate, let’s find a compromise.” Isn’t that the point of mothers?