Ok, so, I know many probably don’t agree with me on the modesty thing, and that’s alright. I guess. But as I was looking through some of my facebook/myspace friends pages today, and noticed a few of the senior pictures that are being posted, I can’t help but ask myself, “where is your mother?”
All I’m saying is, please stop this madness. Please stop dressing with so little clothes on you look like a Playboy pinup. It’s only helping further objectify women. And now that I said that, I realize this rant is coming quite a bit more from my feminist side than my religious side.
Here’s the thing. Stop dressing like a street walker, please. And feel free to argue with me if you want, but I just look at some of these girls and think, “what would I think if that were my daughter? Would I want the world to see that much of my daughter at the age of 18? (Or any other age for that matter).” And the answer is screaming inside my head and my heart with a “NO!!!”
And yes, I’m sure the argument can be made that “modesty is all relative.” Ok, I’ll give you that. You can open up a National Geographic and realize that. But anyone with an ounce of common sense can look at a picture and tell culture from a blatant display of young girls being sexually exploited. And the crazy thing is, they are exploiting themselves in and of their own free will. (And I guess that’s an oxymoron, but I hope you see that what I’m getting at here is not that I want to make a bunch of rules, “don’t show this, and this has to be this length, etc etc”…but rather, I wish our hearts would change in this matter. I wish we would strive toward protecting each other from being objectified, not because of culture, but because we want respect as women.
Sorry. I’ve been trying to work on my “getting overly worked up about everything” problem, but this is one of those things that still gets my blood boiling a little. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not mad at these girls…rather, I pity the fact that women across the board have so little self-respect these days that we’re sinking to new lows.
And in other news…this whole writer’s guild strike thing is totally bumming me out. I don’t really watch TV…in fact, I don’t even have the basic TV channels at my house. But I do make room for Scrubs…it’s probably the only show I’ve ever watched religiously since it’s pilot seven seasons ago. I have all of the DVDs, all of which I’ve watch at least four times through (including season 6 which came out less than one month ago…). If I don’t get some closure on this show, it’s going to drive me slightly mad. (Isn’t it sad that I’m this worked up about a TV show?!?!) I mean, do you know how much class work got neglected these past seven seasons because of Scubs? Classes were failed people! (I’m kidding).
