a & h

Calling all women!

Single, married, old, young, in-between old and young, tall, short, fat, skinny, in-between fat and skinny, blonds, brunettes, black, white, asian, long hair, short hair, no hair, hairy legs, long legged, long faced, sad, happy, famous, not famous, religious, non religious, conservative, liberal, agnostic, blue eyes, brown eyes, one eyed (cyclops?), extroverted, shy, creative, tan, freckled, all of you beautiful ladies!!!!

Girls, its time for a revolution. I was listening to a little radio jam like I usually do while driving home from classes, and a song came on that shocked me. Now, I am shocked easily, after all I am an active member in this extremely affected society, but this song SHOCKED ME. Talkin' about girls bodies and what they are going to do to them and things that caused me to let out an audible, dramatic groan of disgust. These perverted little boys, rapping on my radio, about us women like we are put on this earth for their viewing pleasure.

Since when do we let men talk about us like this? When did we become SO disgustingly objectified and WHY do we support these songs and movies? When did we start to feel like if we don't have a 25-inch waist or long tan legs or huge breasts or degrading clothing we aren't attractive to males? Who decided to start offering surgeries that can drastically change our God-given, naturally beautiful bodies? And when have we ever been the type of people to just sit down and take something like this? IT'S NOT OKAY GIRLS!!!

When I think about how many girls suffer from eating disorders, low self-esteem, trust issues, domestic abuse, or unrealistic image expectations, I cry. I cry for myself, my sisters, my friends, my future daughters. I cry for every girl in the world. We don't deserve this, and we don't want this. We are gorgeous the way we are, because we are intelligent and unique and strong and confident and won't put up with this.

If we don't stand up for ourselves, who will? No one. This is only going to get worse and worse. Media will keep exploiting us and trying to make money by degrading our value and creating a lustful, adulterous world.

I for one, am done. I am done with movies that show even ONE half-naked girl. I'll walk out. I am done with rap music entirely. I am done with magazines that photoshop girls until they are not recognizable as any human being I'VE ever seen. I am done with any song about cheating, lust, women's bodies, degrading dancing, strippers, or glorifying the "pimp life."

Yes, I am well aware that the industry won't miss my support. But something has to be done, and I am not going to sit around and watch the once revered and sacred woman to be turned into a fake, plastic, lust-filled object.