Comments on: What the Media Wants You To Think

By: MInTheGap

MInTheGap — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:49:21 +0000

Good call, Loc. I had forgotten about the corsets. Now, I could go back further and say that at one point in time it was considered beautiful that women be large, but I think that we’ve hit on the important point– all throughout history women have been slaves to how they look. The current mode of feminism does nothing to break this slavery, but it does make it more perverse and prevalent. And then mocks you if you choose not to subscribe.

Blaming “the church” for something is hard to do since “the church” is defined by many local instances. I know of no church members in my church that are asking a now single woman in our church when she will get married, etc. And it’s definitely not a teaching of Christ or the Bible, so these people (no matter how well meaning they think they are) are wrong. I have no problem with that.

God gave freedom by allowing us to make choices, but He also set boundaries. True freedom comes with limits. In fact, the Christian life is compared to bond slavery all throughout the New Testament. Jesus modeled it in the Upper Room. Paul claimed that he was a Bond Slave all the time. And though we are free, we are not free to sin (Romans 6:1ff).

There are boundaries in true freedom. There is a “better way” a “best way” and that sometimes means not going the easy way. That sometimes means that you don’t sleep with everyone before you are married because love in a committed relationship is stronger and more pleasing than the empty ones.

By: Loc

Loc — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:42:51 +0000

I though of something I forgot to mention in my first post. The pain for beauty is not caused by today’s modern society. Remember corsets to keep ones shape (which would break women’s bones and rearrange their internal organs), remember the putting of lead on ones face to make it paler, remember eating a gallon of lard to help keep one fat, and the thousand of other things that women would do to themselves throughout history. In fact it was even more necessary to do these things back then. You needed to be beautiful in order to attract a man who could take care of you (because you were given no choice to support yourself). You needed to keep yourself beautiful so your husband wouldn’t run off with a prettier thing and leave you starving, penniless, and with children to feed.

Now onto your most recent post. Your extremes already existed in the past and are not caused by a woman’s ability to choose her life. Another point, how can you fault society for a crime the church is guilty of itself (You notice the speck in your brother’s eye, but you don’t see the log in your own eye. When you take the log out of your own eye you will be able to see to remove the speck from your brother’s eye-Luke 6:41)? The church and many of its members choose to belittle me because I do not choose to settle down with a man and marry. Not because of any sin I’m committing, but because I choose to take the path preferred by Paul (Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am-1 Corinthians 7:8).

Also Min, choice is freedom. God gave us the ultimate freedom by allowing us to make choices. If he wanted he could have made good little slaves (a creature with no freedom) that did not have any free will of their own and would obey his every word, but instead he gave us the ability to choose our paths and thus we are free.

By: MInTheGap

MInTheGap — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:37:53 +0000

Of course, you take your extremes and I’ll take mine. I find it extremely sad when women commit suicide because they don’t feel they that they are attractive. I find it appalling that women will binge and then purge in order to strive to be something they were never intended. I am aghast that my daughter will grow up in a land where women are supposed to be like strip shows for free– and will be judged by that.

And then, if a woman chooses to do something that is not expected, if they choose to be a good girl, if they choose to submit to their husbands or to raise their children they’re belittled, judged, and looked down on.

Women have choices, sure, but much less freedom. They have new slave masters to replace the old ones.

By: Loc

Loc — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:45:34 +0000

Forced to by a man I had no choice in to marry a man I also had no choice in, and to have both those men rule over me my entire life. Were they may beat me, sexually abuse me, and physiologically torment me until sweet death finally takes me. You wish to call that a lesser enslavement than having a couple idiots try to make me feel bad about myself with some pictures? Min I have to disagree with you, peer pressure just doesn’t compare to the torments women used to be forced into. At least today, women get to choose if they wish to go through these problems or not.