Upon seeing this picture, I laughed pretty hard. But then I began to think about people's self-image and how it relates to our sexed-up, US weekly reading, culture.
It's interesting how so many people (men and women) have such a skewed view of who and what they are as people. I include myself in the list of people that are often guilty of opening up my mouth and letting somebody crap in whatever they like. It has led to gender stereotypes, body-image issues, eating disorders, and all kinds of imbalances in belief and behavior in people's lives.
So essentially, how about we stop letting people sell their crap without calling them out on it. This would of course mean some serious self-policing. Like we stop commenting on how "hot" some girl/guy is because when we do this, it begins to split the value of the person from a whole being to a magazine fantasy. It means a great many things about how we monitor what we take in; be it TV, movies, conversations, and books. It also means valuing people (regardless of sex, race, attractiveness, personality) as creations of God and thus, valuable and precious.
3 comments:
Totally.
Righteous.
Awesome.
though i wouldn't normally call a girl 'hot' (attractive, pretty, beautiful, cute, good lookin' maybe), i think it depends on where a person is coming from when it comes to forgetting the person as a whole when commenting on their appearance.
i would agree that it depends, however it often is not from a good place that it comes.
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