Russian Orthodox official upset at modern women

Written by Christopher Thielen in Humor, News at January 19, 2011

Lashing out at women who “paint [themselves] like a clown”, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin of the Russian Orthodox Church has angered women’s rights groups in Russia with his increasingly bizarre and conservative remarks over the sexual nature of modern women’s clothing:

If [a woman] is drunk … she will provoke [a man] even more. If she is actively inviting contact, and then is surprised that this contact ends with a rape, she is all the more at fault.

Chaplin, who oddly leads the church’s social outreach program, has argued that clothing is not a private matter and should conform with a more conservative style, which he refers to as “Russian.”

The church has responded with mute caution, while the Russian public has found a more entertaining key: “It is not good for a woman to wear only one dress — this has long been considered indecent! A minimum of three dresses worn on top of one another,” one radio commentator quipped.

Source: NYTimes