02-15-2009
03:47 PM
2 Loves
I find this marketing ploy to be highly offensive to women and extremely trashy. It objectifies women as mere sex objects for men to lust after, and the women who contribute to this problem are no better. Objecting to this is not being prudish or "politically correct" or "out of touch." This society...where it is OK to flash our bodies around for all to see, watch people have sex on television or in a movie, be exposed to all sorts of trashy magazines at the grocery store, not to mention the accessibiity to pornography...has done much to destroy marriages and families. And putting some trashy model's picture on an airplane is sleazy and more than just distasteful. As parents of a teenage girl and a young boy, my husband and I try our best to raise them to know that people...all people...are to be treated with respect and dignity, and that they should treat themselves with respect and dignity. My daughter doesn't need to see what the "world" deems is beautiful...being beautiful means respecting your body and preserving what she has to offer for her future husband. And my son is being taught that women...all women... are NOT objects to lust after, but human beings who are to be respected and not demeaned. I feel sorry for women who feel like they have to plaster their naked and near naked bodies all over magazines,,,and in this case an airplane,,,in order to feel "successful" and beautiful. And I feel sorry for men who think that it is OK to treat women in this way. Mostly I feel sorry for the families and marriages that are destroyed as a result. May God have mercy on us.
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