Think of the real cycle of life for modern, young women in the West. From a very young age they are exposed to images of hypersexuality: Barbie Dolls and cartoons featuring females similarly idealized. They are constantly given reinforcement of the need to have a boyfriend and many begin having pretend boyfriends while in early elementary school. The music and videos they listen to and watch contain endless stories of love and even carnal lust. Clothing styles from as young as two or three emphasize tightness of pants and shorts and as they grow into elementary age they are introduced to revealing tops, make-up (a dishonest form of camoflauge to attract a sexual partner) and nail and hair styling.
Finally, by junior high, many girls already have boyfriends and sexual activity is on the rise in this age group as a whole. (An alarming percentage of young girls have also suffered incest by this age.) All around them they see women competing with each other in beauty and fashion, all to attract as many male eyes as possible. The teen dramas they watch on television blatantly deal with boyfriends, gossip, the anguish of being ugly or dowdy and many witness their own parents (many of whom are divorced) indulging in an endless parade of barhopping and partner swapping.
Young virile males, of course, are extremely happy, for in decades past, they would have had to woo their potential mates, impress their fathers and be on their best behavior during a long courtship period marked by good manners, gentlemanly conduct and abstinence. Marriage would have followed (or not) with all its attendant responsibility. Feminists in the 60s and 70s decried this male dominated patriarchy, exposing how women could be mistreated or kept from fulfilling their ultimate potential.
With the so-called women's liberation movement, males in the West can now have illicit relations with any woman almost at will, as the sexual liberation movement encouraged women to be as promiscuous as some men were before. Women now compete with each other, and use the promise of free and easy intimate relations, as the opening bait in their search for a true life partner (which most women still aspire to). Males, realizing they no longer need to marry a woman, or act according to complicated social strictures, in order to obtain the fulfillment of their base desires, have, accordingly, acted as one would expect unrestricted males to act. Now males can abuse women, use them, debase them and discard them at will without having to care for them, marry them or give a concrete commitment. The song and dance of the moment is all it takes to get what they want from women who are now themselves confused as to the real meaning of love. For non-compliant females there is odious spectre of sexual harassment, rape, incest and other forms of abuse which are now very real possibilities for a growing number of women in the West.
When the messy problem of unwed motherhood came up, feminists championed abortion as a quick fix. Their message to women was: you are now promiscuous, the man will not marry or support you now, raising a child alone will interfere with your pursuit of personal fulfillment, so kill the child and nip the problem in the bud. Although abortion clashes with traditional Christian values, and some Christian organizations have gone to great lengths to oppose it (even terrorism), still they have been unable to stop its growth and instalment as a major feature in the life cycle of the average American woman. (Abortion statistics show that an increasing number of women have the distinction of having had utilized this procedure.)
Women, of course, are the primary beneficiaries of a social system that seeks to shackle a man's freedom and force him to commit to a wife and carry the responsibilities of a husband and father. Ironically, it was women, acting through naive, though well-meaning goals, who destroyed this system and now women find themselves degraded as never before, considered as pleasure objects for men, abandoned (even when children are an issue), forced to undergo a series of shallow relationships in the search for the ideal husband who rarely is ever found, plagued by depression and stress, hammered by alcohol and drug abuse, suffering through an explosion of STDs and even taught, in some cultural expressions such as rap music, to call themselves whores, female dogs and even worse from their own tongues.
-Yahiya Emerick, "How to Tell Others about Islam"
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