After walking through the checkout lane at Walmart this week I wonder if women’s magazines do as much harm to women as porn?
There were two teenage girls in front of me flipping through this month’s edition of Cosmopolitan. I watched them read through the magazine. No emotion. Absorbing. No expression. Accepting. No revulsion. Just assuming.
Absorbing from the content that this was to be their reality. Accepting a false truth that this is what the world expected of them. Assuming that they existed for two reasons: to please men in bed, and look like the airbrushed models on each page.
I fear for teenage girls. For all women. There is so much pressure on any girl. They are bombarded with images and messages every day of what it means to be “perfect.” How can they be expected to find the truth of their real beauty through the barrage of messages that convince them otherwise.
I pray for my two nieces. “Dear Lord, invade their hearts. Let them know Your truth. That you created them each as fine porcelain, perfect, pure, and holy in Your sight. Let them know their value in You and how they each deserve their lives to be praised! And more than anything that they are here to please You and no one else!”
And to all women for the record…your tummies are fine and you aren’t the problem.
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