Things that Have Disturbed Me Recently
Posted by Shannon on March 18, 2008
Yesterday, I’m in line at Wal-Mart after purchasing a few items - some that I needed and some I purchased primarily to help the economy out (yeah, right). Now, I’m probably like a lot of people in that when I’m in line at Wal-Mart to pay for my items, I look at what I call the junk aisle. Those little last minute things and magazines that they put in front of you to get your attention right before you pull out the plastic.
One of the magazines, yesterday, disturbed me. On the cover of one of the celebrity-driven magazines was a spread basically along the realms of “Hey, You, See Your Favorite Celebrities Without Their Make-up.” There was Jessica Simpson and a host of others on the front of the cover. The one that disturbed me the most was the mention of Miley Cyrus on the cover.
Really? I mean really? We are that celebrity crazed in this society that we put a kid on a cover of a magazine to show what she looks like without make-up on. At 15, Cyrus even though she’s a celebrity doesn’t deserve that kind of treatment from a national publication. Then again, no one should.
We should be teaching natural beauty and giving our young girls a message that is counter to what the media tells us women and even our youngest should look like. Instead magazine spreads like this, not only does it degrade women in my belief, but it also gives a false identity of beauty to young people telling them “you don’t want to look like this when you leave without that $200 work of make-up … aisle 10.”
I have a new niece and I don’t want her to hear this kind of message of make-up all the time as she grows older.
Here’s something else that bugs me and I believe Neil Cavuto captured it brilliantly yesterday on his show. Heather Mills walked away from a London court yesterday with nearly $50 million in assets and funds as her divorce with former Beatle frontman Paul McCartney. There are people struggling in the world today and Mills married a rocker, divorces him, and hits the lottery.
Pay … day.
Now, I have nothing against people who have earned their money respectfully. I say rock on. However, there is something disturbing, I believe, in Mills giving a thumbs up sign as she left court and saying that she was “so, so happy” with the settlement. I bet you are. I bet you are. Does she not understand what just happened? A judge didn’t grant her a lottery settlement, but the end of a marriage. That’s where the focus should be. Instead, the focus was always on getting as much money as one could.
Sad when you think about it.
About as sad as Obama’s preacher, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, using the pulpit to promote some disturbing agendas with words no man … let alone a preacher should even say.
Now, Wright is allowed to have his views, as much as what we may disagree with the vast majority of his statements. However, I’m disturbed that one uses the pulpit to promote their own gains and not promote God’s will and seek God’s glory.
Someone tell me how God is being glorified in those statements, cause I’m having a hard time.
And that disturbs me.
March 19, 2008 at 9:34 am
Shannon -
Well put. The state of affairs with publications today is very questionable. I’d love to see these younger celebs team up and go after these magazines, not for money but just shut them down all together. They serve no purpose but to fuel negativity and a false sense of what these younger women should aspire to.
Heather Mills, enough said…didn’t catch all of the hoopla, but I didn’t see an ounce of information that lead to her being upset over the marriage. It was about the all mighty dollar from the moment they talked about divorce.
Isn’t it sad that Obama had to hold basically a press conference and talk about comments made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It scares me to think that this is what campaigning has come down to…Punch Counter Punch? Please tell me that the Dems have more than this in how we might run the country. Perhaps and let me give these so called campaign geniuses a heads up…talk about something other than what some preacher says…granted race is a issue, an important one at that. But lets face it, Obama is a very intellegent man, he knew it was going to come up and perhaps he and his campaign guru’s planned this so he could make an issue of it all together. Are we that naive to think that perhaps there is a strategy here? Let’s talk about race because we really don’t have a good solid plan on how to address the economic issues concerning the housing industry, Wall Streets rocky road the last few days, or perhaps the struggles of the middle class. Perhaps I’m missing something.