Showing posts with label self-esteem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-esteem. Show all posts
Monday, March 18, 2013
PRAY! One Nation Under GOD...Let's get back to that!
In light of the conviction of two teen boys who raped a girl who was passed-out drunk at a party, and the craziness of the reaction by mouthpieces in the main-stream media pitying the CONVICTED RAPISTS, and added to the breaking news that there have been threats against the VICTIM, I want to take a moment and ask that EVERYONE take a moment and pray...
PRAY for the victim, that she may heal and find peace and live a happy life.
PRAY for the convicted rapists, that they might repent of their crimes, use their experiences to become role models in society and be redeemed by God for that purpose, that their lives are not lost or wasted. If God can make use of the failed beings he used in the Bible, He can redeem these two boys.
PRAY for the talking heads that they might find common sense and human decency; that they might find the courage and character to condemn these acts as evil and depraved; that they might become voices for justice, morals, and character.
PRAY for the girls now in custody for making threats against the victim.
PRAY for our society that we learn to all be better people. That we are strong enough to speak against depravity. That we are strong enough to stand against the popular and the accepted for what is truly, morally right. That we are wise enough to see evil and find ways to fight it.
PRAY that no more girls are victimized by out-of-control peers who are taught that there is no such thing a personal responsibility; that nothing is their fault; their failures are not theirs.
PRAY that more parents teach their kids the be people of character.
PRAY that the "Self-Esteem" movement finally dies, because it weakens and fails our kids, and has for nearly 3 decades.
PRAY for our society, nation, and world to become people of morals, character, decency, and strength.
Most importantly...just PRAY.
Our schools, and our kids, took a nose-dive when we took God out and replaced Him with Government.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
I'm Still a Guy...Part 2 of 2
These days, too many males are shirking their responsibilities as men. They are "men" when its time to get a girl naked, yet they run and bury their head in the sand the second their romp ends up in conception. Males are all but happy to perform the fun part with as many women who are naive enough to participate, yet there are so many biological fathers who run like a 4 year old from a broken lamp to shirk their responsibility.
Any male that is not a strong influence and role model for his children is not a man. No MAN has ever not accepted his duty as a father. Children need a man in their lives. It teaches boys how to be a man, and it teaches girls what a man should be like and what not to accept as a man in her life.
Children need a man in their lives as much as they need a woman. This is not sexist, this is fact. The man is just as influencial in a child's life as is a woman. For balance, security, role-modelling, and structure, a child need its father as much, and in some areas, more than, the mother. However, not just any male can be a father. A father has to be a MAN. A man has to be a stallwart and a person in which children can hold high esteem.
The character of a real man is based in responsiility. A man finds and provides food, shelter, security, and stability for his family. Sometimes, this can involve a woman's help, either financially through her work, or in other ways. However, it is a natural instinct for the man to be the breadwinner. A man needs to be responsible for ensuring a warm plate of food on the table, a sturdy roof overhead, a safe place in which to live and eat, and a strong environment in which the family can grow and prosper.
A man's responsibility is also to model God-fearing, God-serving, and Christ-like practices in all that he does. A boy will watch his father more intently than imaginable in those early formitive years. It is the man's responsibility to model appropriate behavior for the son to model, as well as for the daughter to become accustomed to so that she seeks the same in her mate later on in life.
No MAN has ever hit a woman. Re-read that statement. No one who is a man has ever laid his hands on a woman in a violent manner. If you hit a woman, you are not a man. If you strike anyone in any manner other than legitimate self-defense, you are not a man. No bully can also be a man.
A man must love his wife and his family without equivocation or doubt. The man must devote himself to the happiness and security of his wife and children. The way in which he treats his wife is going to be, in most cases, the way the son treats his wife in the future. If a man loves, honors, and respects his wife, his son will do the same. Just as importanly, his daughter will expect the same and not settle for less. The converse is true as well. If a man disrespects, cheats on, or otherwise does not appreciate his wife, his children will mimmick the behavior in their relationships.
So, to all members of the male species, it is time to reassert ourselves. It is time to fight the feminization of our kind and take our rightful places as real, big, hairy, stinky, sweaty, competitive, risk-taking men. It is time to show all these little boys what a man REALLY is...
Any male that is not a strong influence and role model for his children is not a man. No MAN has ever not accepted his duty as a father. Children need a man in their lives. It teaches boys how to be a man, and it teaches girls what a man should be like and what not to accept as a man in her life.
Children need a man in their lives as much as they need a woman. This is not sexist, this is fact. The man is just as influencial in a child's life as is a woman. For balance, security, role-modelling, and structure, a child need its father as much, and in some areas, more than, the mother. However, not just any male can be a father. A father has to be a MAN. A man has to be a stallwart and a person in which children can hold high esteem.
The character of a real man is based in responsiility. A man finds and provides food, shelter, security, and stability for his family. Sometimes, this can involve a woman's help, either financially through her work, or in other ways. However, it is a natural instinct for the man to be the breadwinner. A man needs to be responsible for ensuring a warm plate of food on the table, a sturdy roof overhead, a safe place in which to live and eat, and a strong environment in which the family can grow and prosper.
A man's responsibility is also to model God-fearing, God-serving, and Christ-like practices in all that he does. A boy will watch his father more intently than imaginable in those early formitive years. It is the man's responsibility to model appropriate behavior for the son to model, as well as for the daughter to become accustomed to so that she seeks the same in her mate later on in life.
No MAN has ever hit a woman. Re-read that statement. No one who is a man has ever laid his hands on a woman in a violent manner. If you hit a woman, you are not a man. If you strike anyone in any manner other than legitimate self-defense, you are not a man. No bully can also be a man.
A man must love his wife and his family without equivocation or doubt. The man must devote himself to the happiness and security of his wife and children. The way in which he treats his wife is going to be, in most cases, the way the son treats his wife in the future. If a man loves, honors, and respects his wife, his son will do the same. Just as importanly, his daughter will expect the same and not settle for less. The converse is true as well. If a man disrespects, cheats on, or otherwise does not appreciate his wife, his children will mimmick the behavior in their relationships.
So, to all members of the male species, it is time to reassert ourselves. It is time to fight the feminization of our kind and take our rightful places as real, big, hairy, stinky, sweaty, competitive, risk-taking men. It is time to show all these little boys what a man REALLY is...
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Gay Marriage...Marriage...
I originally posted this blog on my MySpace page on 8-8-07. With the recent controversy of the California courts overturning the Gay Marriage ban, I felt this blog, with my revisions, needed to be dusted off. I hope you will enjoy...and think...
In our country today, love and marriage have little to no meaning or respect. Constantly people are getting married in a hurry, divorced in a hurry, and the word love is thrown around like a tennis ball to a dog.
Take my ex-wife, please...no, really. How much can marriage mean in our country if a woman can meet the love of her life two years in a row, and get married in late August two years in a row?
Marriage means so much that the judge who finalized the divorce was jovial and joking and trying to be buddy-buddy with us. I mean, this was the end of what was supposed to be a life-long bond. Yet, it was ended as if it was no more important than two people deciding on the last donut.
Look at how many people get married because it's owed to someone, or because its the right thing to do, or whatever. Or, once they are married, find that it takes hard work and real dedication, so they instead decide its to take the easy way and quit and file for divorce. Its so hard to find people today who really take love and marriage seriously.
The reason I am writing this blog is not the fact that the phony and her puppet are getting hitched 51 weeks after I was hitched to her. Instead, I recently went to the theaters and saw "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," and it got me thinking.
What in the heck are we trying to save by fighting gay marriage? If we, as a society, do not take care of the bonds of marriage and the meaning of love, why the hell do we deny people who have a different opinion and way of life the same opportunity?
What is the difference in gay marriage and straight marriage? The difference is that the gays might actually take marriage seriously.
So, that being said, let me add this. I am Christian. I do not believe that homosexuality is a proper choice in life. I do not agree with the lifestyle, but I have nothing against the people who participate. SO, please don't think of this blog as a pro-gay marriage statement.
More so, this is an indictment of our society, the people in it, and the hypocracy of so many people. The question I am raising is simple:
If marriage is such a sacred institution, when are we going to start acting like it?
In our country today, love and marriage have little to no meaning or respect. Constantly people are getting married in a hurry, divorced in a hurry, and the word love is thrown around like a tennis ball to a dog.
Take my ex-wife, please...no, really. How much can marriage mean in our country if a woman can meet the love of her life two years in a row, and get married in late August two years in a row?
Marriage means so much that the judge who finalized the divorce was jovial and joking and trying to be buddy-buddy with us. I mean, this was the end of what was supposed to be a life-long bond. Yet, it was ended as if it was no more important than two people deciding on the last donut.
Look at how many people get married because it's owed to someone, or because its the right thing to do, or whatever. Or, once they are married, find that it takes hard work and real dedication, so they instead decide its to take the easy way and quit and file for divorce. Its so hard to find people today who really take love and marriage seriously.
The reason I am writing this blog is not the fact that the phony and her puppet are getting hitched 51 weeks after I was hitched to her. Instead, I recently went to the theaters and saw "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," and it got me thinking.
What in the heck are we trying to save by fighting gay marriage? If we, as a society, do not take care of the bonds of marriage and the meaning of love, why the hell do we deny people who have a different opinion and way of life the same opportunity?
What is the difference in gay marriage and straight marriage? The difference is that the gays might actually take marriage seriously.
So, that being said, let me add this. I am Christian. I do not believe that homosexuality is a proper choice in life. I do not agree with the lifestyle, but I have nothing against the people who participate. SO, please don't think of this blog as a pro-gay marriage statement.
More so, this is an indictment of our society, the people in it, and the hypocracy of so many people. The question I am raising is simple:
If marriage is such a sacred institution, when are we going to start acting like it?
Monday, April 21, 2008
Flava Flav!!! God Help Us!
Flipping through late-night TV while I tried to unwind at work, I happened on reruns of "Flava of Love." Of course, this is the second or third season where Flava Flav is looking for his true love. Then, I got to thinking...
Why is this guy so popular?
Why are so many attractive women fighting to be with this guy?
Why is he relavent today?
I don't get people. I really don't get what the big deal is that everyone just thinks that this idiot is so great. the guy looks like a cockroach with a stupid clock handing from his neck and a moronic crown on his shrunken head.
And women fight to be with him
Which shows me something about women today. Most women...MOST, not all...are more competitive than any man ever dreamed. If you put 50 women on an island and only one man...they would kill each other for his attention. It doesn't matter if he looked like the ugly dude that was in the dungeon in the movie "The Three Musketeers," (the Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Keifer Sutherland version from the 90's...if you've seen it, you know who I am talking about.) It wouldn't matter if he was some homless bum with a matted beard and greasy hair...if he was the only man, the women on the island would throw themselves at him like he was the world's biggest stud muffin.
Which leads me to another conclusion. Sadly, in our society, despite the feminine movement and everything, women today have no self-esteem. Because of the way they are portrayed on TV, in movies, and in music videos, women are shown to have no value unless they are sleeping with someone. So, when you limit their choices to one man, they automatically need his attention to feel self worth. Even a goof like me, who has no chance of walking into a club and being chosen over every other guy there, could be coveted by the most attractive women if you make it a competition.
Women cannot stand rejection, even if it is by someone they ordinarily wouldn't want. Women cannot stand to lose, even if the competition isn't something they would logically want to win. Women cannot stand to be left out of the circle of attention.
These are generalized statements...there are some women out there who are strong enough to rise above letting how men use them to determine their self-worth. However, they care constantly attacked for feeling that way and for standing up for what they feel.
I just think our society is in very serious trouble. I think women need to value themselves as more than walking, talking blow-up dolls and find men who treat them as such. And more men need to start thinking above the belt...
But what do I know?
Why is this guy so popular?
Why are so many attractive women fighting to be with this guy?
Why is he relavent today?
I don't get people. I really don't get what the big deal is that everyone just thinks that this idiot is so great. the guy looks like a cockroach with a stupid clock handing from his neck and a moronic crown on his shrunken head.
And women fight to be with him
Which shows me something about women today. Most women...MOST, not all...are more competitive than any man ever dreamed. If you put 50 women on an island and only one man...they would kill each other for his attention. It doesn't matter if he looked like the ugly dude that was in the dungeon in the movie "The Three Musketeers," (the Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Keifer Sutherland version from the 90's...if you've seen it, you know who I am talking about.) It wouldn't matter if he was some homless bum with a matted beard and greasy hair...if he was the only man, the women on the island would throw themselves at him like he was the world's biggest stud muffin.
Which leads me to another conclusion. Sadly, in our society, despite the feminine movement and everything, women today have no self-esteem. Because of the way they are portrayed on TV, in movies, and in music videos, women are shown to have no value unless they are sleeping with someone. So, when you limit their choices to one man, they automatically need his attention to feel self worth. Even a goof like me, who has no chance of walking into a club and being chosen over every other guy there, could be coveted by the most attractive women if you make it a competition.
Women cannot stand rejection, even if it is by someone they ordinarily wouldn't want. Women cannot stand to lose, even if the competition isn't something they would logically want to win. Women cannot stand to be left out of the circle of attention.
These are generalized statements...there are some women out there who are strong enough to rise above letting how men use them to determine their self-worth. However, they care constantly attacked for feeling that way and for standing up for what they feel.
I just think our society is in very serious trouble. I think women need to value themselves as more than walking, talking blow-up dolls and find men who treat them as such. And more men need to start thinking above the belt...
But what do I know?
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Women! Listen!
I wanted to discuss an important topic.
Ladies.
Yes, ladies. I am making some generalizations in this little rambling, but I think about everyone could take something out of what I am saying. I might sound like I am on some kind of high horse...and maybe I am. But I think this needs to be said and repeated over, and over and over and over...
The reason this is such an issue is that there is a serious lack of ladies in the world today. Even fewer little girls will grow up to be ladies in the years to come.
By lady, I mean a woman who is confident, modest, strong, and values herself as a person and refuses to be objectified as a "piece." I mean a woman who is strong enough to live and be happy without selling her body for acceptance and "love."
Too often, on TV, in movies, in songs, in every aspect of life, girls are taught that letting a boy have his way with them is acceptable and encouraged. Girls are ingrained with the idea that sex is their only asset to get what they think they want. And what they think they want is also ingrained by the same venues that teach them that they are only as good as the amount of cleavage they show or partners they have.
So, today, as a man, I want to stop the trend. I don't want some easy tramp who thinks the only way I might love her is if she sleeps with me. I don't want some woman who is incomplete by herself and needs to feel wanted, and they stoop to any level to get that feeling of want, even if it is misguided and more lust than true want.
Instead, what I want is a woman with confidence. A woman who knows that she is more that just a notch on a bedpost. A woman who thinks for herself and doesn't buy into the idea that showing more and giving more is the right way to live. A woman with morals. A woman with her head on straight. Someone who can intrigue me without unbuttoning her blouse.
Women, its time to stand up for yourselves. Stop letting yourself get walked on and treated as a piece of tail. You have so much more to offer. Be proud of who you are and be strong. Stop listening to what 50 Cent or Ludacris or Eminem or any of 1,000 singers might say...stop looking at movies and TV shows....you can still watch and enjoy them, but stop learning their misguided lessons.
Girls today have lost the innocence and modesty that makes women so incredible. High school girls compete for lovers and numbers of partners like boys used to only claim to have done in locker rooms. Far too many girls are running out of fingers to count their partners on before they get a high school diploma. Too many girls are under the impression that it is okay to be promiscuous and to dress in revealing and slutty clothes. Too many girls are growing up as cheap, easy, incomplete people whose life consists of too high an emphasis on sex.
Girls might want to blame guys...say guys are the reason because guys are brought up to think the same thing. To an extent, the girls do have a point. However, girls, it is up to you to take a stand and teach the boys that you are worth more than that. Stop giving in to the cute guys just because they are cute. Stop giving yourself away and stop degrading and devaluing yourself.
And guys...stop thinking with your penis. It is almost as much our fault for acting like sex-craved horn-dogs as it is the girls' fault for giving in and rewarding that kind of weakness. It is a far stronger man that waits to have sex for love then have sex for fun.
Having sex can be fun...but it can be so much more. It can be truly fulfilling and truly gratifying if you wait for the right partner and the right reasons. Having sex is not a way to create love where it doesn't exist, nor is it a way to extend a relationship. Sex is not an avenue to keep a person you care about with you. If you have to go to bed to keep someone, then they obviously do not value you enough. So, don't give in to pressure. That is not love, and that is not healthy.
We have become a free-sex society and it is tragically destroying our world and any semblance of morality. Guys and girls, stop going to bed with people you aren't married to. If you wait until there is a real sense of love and meaning between partners, everything will be so much better.
Ok, I am off the high horse now...but I am still right.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
"Love," "Marriage," and "Divorce."
As of this morning, the dream turned nightmare will officially be over. We go before the courts and make official that admittance that, yet again, the words "love" and "marriage" are just catchphrases, and hold little real meaning.
What has happened to the world? Where is the character? Where is the moral values? Where is the strength in spirit? Why have we, as a society and the world at large, allowed the sacred institutions of love and marriage become so trivial?
We stand up with our anti-rainbow rings to shut down lesbians and gays from using the term marriage, pretending in that instance that it still means something. Yet, as a society, people constantly get married and divorced as if we are all trapped in Salem and "Days of Our Lives."
No matter how entertaining and exciting and intriguing it might be to see Bo go from Billy to Hope to Billy to Hope and back again....or see John with Kate, Kate with Roman, John with Marlena, Roman with Marlena, or any of 1,000 combinations...one thing holds true: the constant switching with little to no real thought or emotional attachments is immoral, wrong, and disgraceful. It might be a show, but our society is just like it.
Far too often I hear or see people getting married because they should, because its what they are supposed to do. Instead of finding the person who you want to spend your life with, the goal is to find the person who hangs in the longest and then get hitched. It is few and far between to find a REAL marriage based on REAL love..and that is sad.
When I got married, as quick as it might have been, I got married for the right reasons. I was in love and intended to spend my life making my wife happy and was willing to fight with every ounce of my being to make us work through the hard times. I intended on marrying one person and spending my life loving that one person. Sadly, she had other reasons for getting married, and those reasons are still a painful mystery.
Part of our problem is that we are all programmed to think sex is a major function of EVERY relationship. If you are with a girl 3 weeks and she's not giving in, there MUST be something wrong, right? If a guy resists the temptation, the woman feels its an insult and its because he really isn't attracted to her. If one partner doesn't want to have sex immediately, there MUST be something wrong with the people involved and the relationship itself.
I gave in, sadly, and devalued the gift of sex by participating before marriage. I only gave in for two reasons: I knew in my heart that I was with the woman I was going to marry, and I felt pressured and that my not giving in was hurting her feelings and would hurt our relationship.
Unfortunately, giving in did hurt the relationship and we didn't allow the proper foundation for a relationship to be built. Perhaps because of that she was able to drop me so easily...in her case there was no real foundation because we rushed every part of the relationship and it distorted her views.
That is the biggest problem...most people today don't know how to build a relationship without getting into bed immediately. You can never really love someone if the growth of the relationship depends on sex. That is the root of the problem. Sex is devalued and used as a recreational activity with little to no moral responsibility.
If the gift designed for a husband and wife is devalued, it only stands to reason and logic that the next step would be the crumbling of the meaning of marriage. If you can have sex for free, why go through the rigamarole of building a relationship and a solid marriage?
This blog has probably ranted enough. I just wish that the next time I am able to give someone my heart and marry again, they will share my beliefs. Beliefs that say marriage is sacred, and not a legal agreement that will eventually become an inconvinience because they didn't enter it with the proper beliefs and values.
I hope that those with children, or those still growing themselves, will become examples of this idea. The idea that love and marriage really do mean something and should not be thrown around like the term "lol" in an IM conversation. The idea that divorce should be avoided at ALL costs, and only be a LAST resort, and come about after both parties have given each other the best effort they can.
What has happened to the world? Where is the character? Where is the moral values? Where is the strength in spirit? Why have we, as a society and the world at large, allowed the sacred institutions of love and marriage become so trivial?
We stand up with our anti-rainbow rings to shut down lesbians and gays from using the term marriage, pretending in that instance that it still means something. Yet, as a society, people constantly get married and divorced as if we are all trapped in Salem and "Days of Our Lives."
No matter how entertaining and exciting and intriguing it might be to see Bo go from Billy to Hope to Billy to Hope and back again....or see John with Kate, Kate with Roman, John with Marlena, Roman with Marlena, or any of 1,000 combinations...one thing holds true: the constant switching with little to no real thought or emotional attachments is immoral, wrong, and disgraceful. It might be a show, but our society is just like it.
Far too often I hear or see people getting married because they should, because its what they are supposed to do. Instead of finding the person who you want to spend your life with, the goal is to find the person who hangs in the longest and then get hitched. It is few and far between to find a REAL marriage based on REAL love..and that is sad.
When I got married, as quick as it might have been, I got married for the right reasons. I was in love and intended to spend my life making my wife happy and was willing to fight with every ounce of my being to make us work through the hard times. I intended on marrying one person and spending my life loving that one person. Sadly, she had other reasons for getting married, and those reasons are still a painful mystery.
Part of our problem is that we are all programmed to think sex is a major function of EVERY relationship. If you are with a girl 3 weeks and she's not giving in, there MUST be something wrong, right? If a guy resists the temptation, the woman feels its an insult and its because he really isn't attracted to her. If one partner doesn't want to have sex immediately, there MUST be something wrong with the people involved and the relationship itself.
I gave in, sadly, and devalued the gift of sex by participating before marriage. I only gave in for two reasons: I knew in my heart that I was with the woman I was going to marry, and I felt pressured and that my not giving in was hurting her feelings and would hurt our relationship.
Unfortunately, giving in did hurt the relationship and we didn't allow the proper foundation for a relationship to be built. Perhaps because of that she was able to drop me so easily...in her case there was no real foundation because we rushed every part of the relationship and it distorted her views.
That is the biggest problem...most people today don't know how to build a relationship without getting into bed immediately. You can never really love someone if the growth of the relationship depends on sex. That is the root of the problem. Sex is devalued and used as a recreational activity with little to no moral responsibility.
If the gift designed for a husband and wife is devalued, it only stands to reason and logic that the next step would be the crumbling of the meaning of marriage. If you can have sex for free, why go through the rigamarole of building a relationship and a solid marriage?
This blog has probably ranted enough. I just wish that the next time I am able to give someone my heart and marry again, they will share my beliefs. Beliefs that say marriage is sacred, and not a legal agreement that will eventually become an inconvinience because they didn't enter it with the proper beliefs and values.
I hope that those with children, or those still growing themselves, will become examples of this idea. The idea that love and marriage really do mean something and should not be thrown around like the term "lol" in an IM conversation. The idea that divorce should be avoided at ALL costs, and only be a LAST resort, and come about after both parties have given each other the best effort they can.
Sunday, January 1, 2006
Happy New Year 2006!
Happy New Year!
Just an idea...this goes out to my women friends. Please tell two of your friends, and tell them to tell two more and so on.
Stop letting yourselves be cheapened.
Stop letting yourself be convinced that you have to look slutty and or act slutty to get a man's attention or to get somewhere in life. Stop encouraging my fellow menfolk to think from their zippers by giving in to their childish demands.
Stop being so forgiving of men for cheating. Cheating is the ultimate hurt and insult. Forgiving is just slightly different than encouraging. Forgiving a cheater gives them control...gives them the power to cheat more often because they know they have you around their finger.
Stop acting like the women on TV. Women, like us males, have so few positive role models. The only time a woman should let a man into her bed on the first date is if that first date didn't come until after they fell in love and were married.
I am not trying to be holier-than-thou. I am not trying to insult or berate or come down on. It is merely an idea I propose. I did, in fact, lose a friend of three years over a difference in ideas over the summer...so I know how overreacted people can get. But I hope you can take this in the spirit in which it is intended.
Happy New Year! May God bless your 2006.
Just an idea...this goes out to my women friends. Please tell two of your friends, and tell them to tell two more and so on.
Stop letting yourselves be cheapened.
Stop letting yourself be convinced that you have to look slutty and or act slutty to get a man's attention or to get somewhere in life. Stop encouraging my fellow menfolk to think from their zippers by giving in to their childish demands.
Stop being so forgiving of men for cheating. Cheating is the ultimate hurt and insult. Forgiving is just slightly different than encouraging. Forgiving a cheater gives them control...gives them the power to cheat more often because they know they have you around their finger.
Stop acting like the women on TV. Women, like us males, have so few positive role models. The only time a woman should let a man into her bed on the first date is if that first date didn't come until after they fell in love and were married.
I am not trying to be holier-than-thou. I am not trying to insult or berate or come down on. It is merely an idea I propose. I did, in fact, lose a friend of three years over a difference in ideas over the summer...so I know how overreacted people can get. But I hope you can take this in the spirit in which it is intended.
Happy New Year! May God bless your 2006.
Monday, May 16, 2005
The Self Image of Young Girls...It's Scary.
Does this look like someone who needs to drop a few pounds? Didn't think so. But Lindsay Lohan believes that if she went arm to twiglike arm with some of her fellow streamlined starlets, she'd look like she was carrying extra baggage.
"... Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight," the alarmingly slimmed-down teen queen tells Teen Vogue. "There are so many really, really thin girls out there."
(Perhaps one of them could give the once super-shapely beauty a mirror and a grilled cheese sandwich. Too mean? All right, moving on ...)
Lohan has dismissed eating-disorder whispers, attributing her skin-and-bones bod to a loss of "baby fat," and she tells the magazine she "feels good" about her new figure because "you can fit into more things."--This is an article online on MSN.com.
Wow.
Lindsey Lohan used to be a very attractive girl. Now, she is sickeningly thin.And on top of that, she is obviously sick in the head too. She thinks she could lose a few pounds? WHERE??
And, as a pop-culture princess, what the hell is she doing to little girls around the world with her comments?
Folks, its time to stop the thin is in craze. Its perfectly okay to want to be fit and healthy...but to drop to a point where your only cleavage is actually ribs poing through, that is a major problem.
Girls today keep getting the wrong messages...and they keep buying it. I can guarentee at least one girl will be directly affected by Lohans comments and will die from starving herself to be that sickeningly thin. I guarentee Lindsey Lohan's irresponsible comments and example will result in one family burying a young girl who thought that "just a few more pounds" wouldn't hurt.
Thanks, Linsey, for yet another great example of what girls need to grow up thinking.
We need more Mia Hamms...more Kathy Irelands...more Serena Williamses...more women who demonstrate that women can weigh over 100 pouinds, be healthy, and still look good.
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