One of my hobbies is to discuss issues of life on a forum. The forum is made up of mostly atheists/darwinists/naturalists. You can imagine how fun the topic of evolution, macro-evolution, micro-evolution, intelligent design, and anything moral goes. I really enjoy it.
Recently a 19 year old girl asked the forumites if she was a bad wife for calling her husband on watching porn. I naively thought that people would encourage her and give her practical steps in confronting the issue. To my surprise, woman after woman dogged her for not being supportive of her husband. "He needs his outlet." "Maybe, you should watch it with him." "Boys will be boys." "Who are you to invade his privacy."
That was just scratching the surface of what the women told this young lady. It greatly saddened me that women are okay with the oppression/exploitation of women-- even advocate it. Totally saddening.
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I don't feel pain over the exploitation because I feel like that is a two-way street. I think that it's too bad that women are beginning to think that its OK for their significant others to get involved mentally with other women.
The numbers are staggering when it comes to how many women involved in porn or abusive relationships were sexually/physically/verbally abused as little girls. I believe that we're seeing even deeper levels of deception at this time. When women become advocates for porn, they're being deceived at a deeper level.
Interesting . . . this past week my brother told me a story of being on an airplane recently and watching a young lady view porn on her laptop during the flight just as casually as can be . . .
I recently got slammed by a group of females on the forum I visit for stating that porn is destructive. I was amazed at how many of them defended on every level. They were more adamant than the males that took shots on me.
there is a whole new culture that is evolving where some of the young women in my own life have expressed that they would love to grow up and become playboy bunnies. WHAT!! these two girls both come from good homes but both are missing or had been missing the male figures in thier lives. i don't think either have been abused but what i am most surprised by is that they have expressed these things as though it is not a big deal at all. one of them i actually talked with at length about why she thinks this is okay and one of the main reasons is this new show she has been watching about these 3 girls that are hugh hefners personal playmates and it's a reality show that has made it look like these girls are living the dream. pretty interesting and very sad to me. it is a very big lie that has crept in under the guise that this is what true beauty is all about. i am personally praying about what to do next with this info.
Truly sad. Even worse is how it's becoming commonplace everywhere. TV, radio, internet espically. When I was out last night at Farmers Market it became very apparent that alot of women don't know how or where to use their sexuality. But who is there to show them otherwise?
i am floored at the inability to recognize exploitation for what it is. it is pretty common, however. i think that a lot of it is our success at any price society, and the other part is the fact that most females aged 14-25 I have interacted with do not do a whole lot of rational/logical thinking. i know it's a sterotype - but they exist for a reason.
in the end, everybody, male and female, turns somewhere for an idea of what it right, and the Zeitgeist will tell them that porn is OK, and they'll figure out some way to make that work mentally if that's the way it has to be.
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