November 3, 2012
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Fashion Tip Friday ~
Today’s tip…fashion for your heart.
This is a page out of a magazine geared toward young teenage girls.
The woman pictured below is 30 years old.
She is thoughtlessly torn to shreds. I wonder how she felt when she saw this on the newstand.We don’t know her, yet we draw conclusions based on a teenage tabloid.
Young girls will pick this up and giggle and laugh and think nothing of it.
After all, it’s just silly teenage stuff, right?
You see…it’s not all right. It gives our young girls a certain mindset.
A mindset that being mean is okay. Tearing someone apart is funny.
It desensitizes them. It sets for them a lower standard.There is so much hatred and cruelty in schools and society today. We teach our kids not to bully. We teach them to share, to be kind, to put others first.
The media runs campaigns and advertises not to hate. Hate laws are passed, rules made, parents agree….
and then a little magazine is all packaged up looking fun and cute suggesting to do the very thing everyone is against!
Being mean.What are we saying to our children if we okay this reading material?
The second problem I have is the way they discuss her appearance.
This woman is 30 years old. They are suggesting she has reached “grandma” age.Our girls have enough issues today with the way they look. America is obsessed with youth. skinniness. perfection.
Exposing themselves to this kind of talk will just fuel the insecurity fire that is already burning within them.(What would DOVE think of this.
We should be teaching our daughters and young girls not to behave this way.
We should be teaching them to accept aging as something beautiful. an accomplishment. something to look forward to.
We need to teach them to respect those that are older than us. to respect others in general.
We need to teach them that others have feelings. and we need to be sensitive to those feelings.As a mom your daughter looks up to you. You set the standard whether you think so or not.
She is looking to you for guidance. for approval. for the right and wrong.
Which is exactly the way God ordained things to be!
So much of the world and the church of today compare themselves to others. other people’s standards. instead of the bible’s standards.
God has a much higher standard than we do. Magazine pages like this I’m sorry to say, are not setting a biblical standard for our young ladies.I would encourage you to set an example of graciousness and kindness.
To find your beauty in serving. giving. sharing with others.It’s not always easy to do…trust me, I’m stressing over a couple grey hairs I found!
But if we can keep our focus, we can do it. Life is too important to flip out over a new line around your eye.
These bodies of ours aren’t coming with us anyway.Hope you have a most splendid weekend.
Comments (18)
Stands up clapping…here, here! Well written. Can you send this in to the magazine?! As I am more in that age of having everything getting wrinkled, grey etc., I try to remember that my boys thought their Grandma was the MOST BEAUTIFUL woman ever, with the softest cheeks! It was the smile, the love, and the twinkle in her eye they saw.
awesome post Liz. just awesome.
I agree with ABAHM’s comment, I’m clapping too!! I think you should send it in to the magazine also.
wow…that is not ok! great post. very well said.
amen!
We may throw an insult without thinking and forget it quickly but the person who bore the brunt of it may remember it forever. On the other hand, an offhand complement or nice action can be equally as impressive. Thanks for the reminder.
Wow! I’m shocked! That’s terrible. I like what you have to say and agree that you should send it in.
great words liz. and i agree… send those thoughts to the editorial section.life is just so much more then that. love that you wrote from your heart.
i’m taken aback. i am. i always joke “that i don’t get out much,” but the more i “get out,” like with a peek into the above teen-loid, the more i am okay with being a bit hick. how cruel. our value isn’t limited to a tiny youthful window, thank God. great post liz.
Yes to all that. All people should be love and be taught how to love everybody whether or not they are pretty.
I’m shaking my head. SHAME on the people who put that together! That is like fuel to the fire of today’s media agenda to promote fake beauty and to disrespect people who show signs of aging! Here where I live, it’s not so bad, at least not that I’ve seen. Thanks for your well-written Head’s Up!!!
clapping with the others~ well said, lizzie! and yes! no matter how beautiful a woman is, if she’s not gracious and kind then she becomes appalling to those around her pretty fast!! a good call to attention to mind our words and be careful of who’s listening – like our daughters!!
seriously. good post. i’m with them^ send it in. Someone needs to tell them.
This is why I like you. You are such a Christ-bearer, and write with passion.This is so so good. And like you, this is so NOT what I want my girls growing up with.And as I’m nearly 30, I most CERTAINLY do not want to be called ‘Grandma’!!Excellent, excellent!!xoxo
What the what?? I’m completely appalled that someone approved that for print in the magazine. Shame on them, and seriously you know some of that magazine staff is over 30. How do they view that or justify it, I wonder.I agree wholeheartedly. That is disgusting.
wow, 30 is nowhere near grandma age, especially these days it seems. most people are just beginning their families and careers by 30. this magazine is clueless and degrading and hopefully loses a lot of credit from this article.
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