It's my turn to post at Out of the Ordinary:
Appearance is a big issue for young women. From preschool onward, there's an unspoken rule that the prettiest, best dressed, and coolest girl moves to the top of the pecking order. This rule “tells girls that how you look is more important than how you feel. More that that, it tells them that how you look is how you feel as well as who you are.” 1
But if you think this is something women outgrow when they reach middle age, think again. There are nearly 500 Forever 21 stores, but you've probably never heard of Forever 52. Why not? Because it doesn't exist in a culture where “... girls are now simultaneously getting older younger and staying younger older. It also explains why the identical midriff-baring crop top is sold to eight-year-olds, eighteen-year-olds, and forty-eight-year-olds. The phases of our lives have become strangely blurred as girls try to look like adult women and adult women primp and preen and work out like crazy in order to look like girls.”2 In the world's eyes, beauty and youth are a woman's “currency and power”3, which is why women pay big bucks to go under the knife to turn back the clock.
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My husband once told me that many of the women who work for him dress like teenagers. A couple of weeks ago I stopped by his office because he had left his cell phone at home. I was astonished to see 40 year olds dressed like high schoolers. Andin clothes that my parents never would have let me actually go to high school in :-) It must be so hard to be a man these days and keep a pure mind with nearly all women dressed in revealing clothes.
ReplyDeleteYour post is such a timely topic, Persis. Sometimes I'm incredulous at the behaviors and attire of some Christian women. They're like they're untaught; which, I'm afraid, is really the truth of the matter. We have a preoccupation with beauty, but entirely of the wrong sort.
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