Wednesday,
May 8, 2013
Jeff Lampl
Jeff Lampl
“When
I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a
child. When I
became a man, I put childish ways behind me." I Corinthians 13:11
became a man, I put childish ways behind me." I Corinthians 13:11
I
am personally amazed that the feminist movement has so little to say about the
demeaning way that women are depicted on TV, commercials, in film, in music
videos and especially in the lyrics of music popular in our youth culture,
most notably hip hop.
Women who fought so hard for women’s rights and respect now appear to
be silent when women are called the “b” and “w” words in song lyrics.
It’s degrading.
Is our society regressing back to the first century when women were
commodities to be used and disposed of?
From
high school “sexting”, to the group sexual experiences now prevalent among
those have barely hit their teens, to the college hook-up culture, to the
decline of marriage, to the women abandoned by their “lovers” (an improper
usage of language if there ever was one) to raise a child on their own dependent
on our welfare system . .
. . . . . we
are now witnessing the dramatic increase among American males of men who never
get to 1 Corinthians 13:11b.
In
what ways might you and I (men and
women) be unwitting participants in the denigration of women in our society?
Sermon on "Why Good Go Bad", Pastor used Cain's plant-offering as an illustration of "home-made religion" that God rejects (Gen 4:5). We are as a society now all guilty of "home-made religion" in accepting same-sex relationships as the "new norm" and so God no longer accepts our worship. Think of the consequences! One of which is that He has "given us over to a debased mind to do things that are not fitting." (Rom 1:28). The logical end of the matter is denigration of women . . . and men.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read Jeff's post I remembered that I had thought of this a few years ago so I looked through an old journal and found that I had written the following:
ReplyDelete"It's obvious to us in the Western world that women are being exploited and abused in parts of Africa and the Middle East when we hear about genital mutilation, unrepaired fistulas, sex trafficing, lack of education for girls, etc. But I just watched a commercial for Desperate Housewives and it was amazing to me how we miss the fact that women in this country are also exploited. We advertise the sexuality of women to make a profit, sell a product or promote a television show. The Greek "porne" means prostitute and comes from an Indo-European root word "per" meaning to sell. The thought is that it was applied - not because prostitutes sell their bodies - but instead because they were bought and sold as slaves".
We could take your question to the state level, Jeff ... Look at how some states treat women. States like AZ are legislating to make it darned hard to be female. The AZ state supreme court repeatedly throws out cases of women being paid less and even treated as less - the local courts always side w/ corporations when a woman files a wrongful termination, always = 98% of the cases! In AZ a woman's doctor has the right to withhold medical information about her pregnancy if "he feels that her having this knowledge would lead to her aborting the pregnancy" (it doesn't matter what side of he abortion issue you're on, withholding medical info is just plain wrong!). Companies in AZ are encouraged to save money on health insurance by offering lesser packages to women - including not covering OBGYN and birth control. // With real life examples like these in the news, how do we expect our girls to feel about being female?
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