agreed. However I don't think it would be a stretch to suggest that tight skirts on women is out of line for a "christian". Why would tight pants on men be any different?
I get that the GB stand on a platform of speaking for god, but to be honest, any christian SHOULD consider tight pants or "skinny" pants unchristian the same way they would find tight skirts
Tight pants are unchristian today in exactly the same way that exposed ankle on a lady was unchristian in the 1700s. Standards for modesty change. I think it's clear that pants that are sufficiently tight to show the outline of the head of the man's penis are probably something that would be considered immodest by most even today, but he never said anything like that. The pictures in Cadelin's post certainly show tailored somewhat tight suit-pants, but I don't see how they are in any way immodest. In fact, I don't think I would necessarily say that either of the men in your pictures are immodest. The second guy is obviously a little closer to the line than the first, but still I think it's just a matter of taste.
While it's obviously easier to poke fun at the rediculous sound bites that came from the tight-pants rant, my biggest objections to it are:
1. This organization consistently says that they do not make rules for every little bit of minutiae as did the pharasees in Jesus' day. This is a clear example of them doing just that, and from the very top of the pyramid at that. Instead, they should allow their adherents to apply their "bible trained conscience" that they keep going on about and decide for themseleves. The blatant hipocrisy is disgusting.
2. The underlying effect that the GB's making of man-made rules has on JWs is immense, even if the rules are relatively trivial. AMIII says no skinny jeans, so a few JWs throw away their skinny jeans. The very act of their compliance then makes them more likely to go along with bigger things in the future (even if they don't agree that skinny jeans are wrong, they must change their belief to deal with the cognitive dissonance that occurs when they throw them out due to peer pressure). This small, seemingly innocent, rule exemplifies the high level of control that the organization exerts over JWs and it is this control that is most damaging. JWs find themselves in a place where every detail of their lives is controled for them and they have no valid way to introduce their own reasoning. This control results in, among other things, the deaths of thousands for refusal of blood transfusions and organ transplants, the death by suicide of countless teens who are shunned by their own parents, the molestation of countless innocent children by known child molesters and the list goes on. This small, innocent, seemingly christian rule sets the stage for all that. It may seem like an exageration, but it's a well understood psychological effect and without these small rules, the most damaging rules would be more likely to be questioned and ultimately rejected.
