One of the things I am most concerned with is the young women in the world and what their image of themselves is. I deal with young women every day in my job and it scares me that these girls have very little self value and tend to value themselves on only two things.
1. how they look
2. What they have
This I think is our fault - the older woman I mean, we allow our girls to think only that their value is in their bodies, On videos on Tv in papers women are shown half naked, extremly sexual and being pawed and played with by some random man.
Why do we not celebrate our bright women, the scientists, the authors and poets, the Artists.
We would rather drool over the latest hilton escapade and posh's new dress than discuss the situation in iraq.
Its OUR Fault, We buy the magazines we tell our girls subconsiously that their only value is in their surface appearence.
It scares the hell out of me when I asked a group of `14 year old girls what they would do if they could do anything in the world. No limit. and the best they came up with was shopping in new York.
Where are the dreams, where is the passion,why are they so appathetic
The answer
US!!! We feed this we ask little of them and then are surprised with we get little back.
If we all stopped buying into the celebrity mentality and the magazine cult all at once we could put things in perspective
There is something wrong with girls when they are having sex with boys in school fields and filming it to put on U Tube. Or rather is there something very very wrong with why they feel they have to do this, or why they thing it would be in any way a good thing.
Can we do anything
what do you think
OW
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I was having a similar discussion with some JW's who called the other day who were asking if i thought todays young people were bad and how bad the state of the world was.
I basicly said that because most people believe in everything we see in the media, then we believe we`re living in a world where children are disrespectful and everyone is at war with nothing good happening in the world.
Its becoming a world where unless your thin/rich/etc then your not good enough. As you said, we`re expecting little from girls today and thats what we are getting back. The idea of self worth is supposedly being enforced by positive role models but in so many cases its resulting in girls doing things like you mentioned in your blog.
All we can do is try and be decent rolemodels and teach them that respect isnt measured by how short your skirt is or how many men youve had
Jera
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Image seems to be everything, whether it's a size 0 "supermodel" or another Barbie-doll clone.
That your 14 year olds were interested in shopping...well, most of the ones I've known couldn't wait to have a baby, which to me is just as sad a statement.
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