Society and It's Effects on Women and Children.
What is society? People? ... Culture?
What is considered acceptable in our society?
What is considered unacceptable in our society or culture?
These are questions that we seem to know the answers to, but do we really?
Things like murder, rape, incest, and stealing are considered unacceptable. Yet
we accept things like pornography, nudity, and exploitation of women and
children's bodies through various forms of media, and we think nothing of it.
The majority of the people either enjoy it, or ignore it, but only a few try to
stop it, unfortunately too few try to make a change occur. The most that can be
done is to open more people’s eyes to what is happening all around them. If
enough people realize what is happening then maybe more people will care enough
to try to make a change.
Through the ages there have been changes in society, the people changed,
and hence society changed. What was once wrong in society is now right, but how
can that be? How does something wrong, all of a sudden become right? Is right
and wrong merely a perspective? When did it change? When will the day come when
what we consider wrong now will be right? If people keep changing the
perspective of wrong and right, then one day it will be wrong to have morals,
and right to do wrong.
People are supposedly all created equally, but people are not all treated
equally, women especially are still being discriminated against, and degraded.
Women have come a long way, and proved themselves capable of handling many
things, yet some women are still trapped into thinking that they can only be sex
objects for men. The girls who are beautiful are encouraged to be models, or to
use their looks and body to get what they want, they are not even encouraged to
use their minds. Yet when a beautiful woman does use her mind, and gains a
position of importance, she has to combat sexual harassment from her male
coworkers, or from her boss.
Back in the 1800's and early 1900's it would have been considered indecent to
show a woman in her underwear, much less a bikini. But today both young girls
and woman are displayed in ads clad only in bikinis, and nothing is thought of
it, when will be the day when woman are more than just objects for display?
Beauty in girls these days is measured on how thin, young, or pretty one is, and
whether or not they look good in a bikini. This is what young girls are being
taught by society. Yet at the same time parents, teachers, and psychologists try
to tell them that looks don't matter, and that it is what's inside that counts.
Which is true, because looks do not make a person, it is what is inside that
person that really counts beyond any outward appearance. But society reinforces
that looks do matter, and that signal is loud and clear to most young girls, and
the unfortunate truth is that many girls are in fact judged on their looks, no
matter how much society may deny it. Some girls strive so hard to be like the
models that they see in the ads, that they end up killing themselves and a life
is wasted, others succeed only to find out the only thing that they will used
for is for their body, and that they don't get any respect for who they are
inside, only for what they look like on the outside.
Society has changed dramatically since the 1800's and 1900's. Back then women
were fighting for the right to vote and to be treated as equals. Now they have
the right to vote and many have high paying and important jobs, but still woman
are degraded, and women continue to allow themselves to be degraded, because of
"society", and the way they are brainwashed into accepting things in a male
oriented society. When will the day come when "society" can see that what
everyone so casually accepts is wrong.
Back in history, society accepted slavery, it was wrong, but it was accepted. It
took a civil war to stop it, and even then black people were treated as if they
weren't human beings with feelings or rights for a long time afterwards , though
it was wrong to do so. But most of society didn't care enough about it being
wrong, which is why it continued. Once royalty could only marry royalty, so
there were many cases of relatives marrying, it was wrong, but accepted. Not
until they found out that the children resulting from these unholy marriages
were defective, because of being bred too closely, did they stop the practice.
Homosexuality, is accepted in today's society, and society wanted to teach it to
children in the schools with the rainbow curriculum. Yet once it was considered
unacceptable, and wrong. What changed to make it right? Society... The people
changed. Yet did that make it right? Now there is AIDs, and it started because
of homosexuality, and bestiality. Bestiality is already known in our society,
will that too one day be accepted and taught in school? Schools hand out condoms
now, but religion and morals are banned from the public schools. Now it is okay
to teach about sex and drugs, but it is a crime to teach about God or being
good.
Back in the 60's and 70's was the so-called sexual revolution, people smoked
pot, and believed only in love and peace. They wanted to break away from the
rules of society, and be free to do what they pleased. What happened was a
changing of society, but not for the better, for the worse. And it gets worse
with every generation. Why?
Every new generation is brought into a world full of "free speech", a
great concept, but in reality it has been twisted and used for illegal and/or
immoral purposes.
Pornographers are free to advertise their wares on the Internet, and in magazine
and newspaper ads. People are free to take pictures of children naked, and call
it naturist art. Bookstores like Barnes and Noble display postcards with nude
pictures, and nude photography books openly, yet they do not stop children from
entering the store or looking at any nudity. Nude art photography which once was
just silouettes of adults, now ranges from playboy like poses of children and
teens, to pornographic and sexual poses with women and men. Yet it is called
art, and freedom of expression in art, allows it to be placed in a bookstore for
sale, or even in some art shows or museums. At Tower Books, kids are free to
walk in since it is only a bookstore, yet they display large books on the wall
with nude couples. Nude picture books right next to the cash register, with a
pornographic picture on the cover, and they have a large book section devoted to
erotica, and another large section devoted to sex. They display these things
openly, so that you can't possibly miss it, yet they have no signs that kids are
not allowed to enter or any signs that would even suggest that it was anything
more than a regular bookstore.
Even the local video store, has large selections of adult videos, with nude or
semi nude women depicted on the covers, yet it is displayed openly, and they
don't monitor children in the store. But society accepts nudity these days.
Because while some people may not like it, or agree with it, the majority of
people just accept it and ignore it. Now when you go to a movie and it is rated
PG-13, there is a good chance that you may see a naked woman in it. Never a
naked man, only women are degraded. And movies that are rated R now, at one time
would have been rated X, but society has lowered the morality ratings for
movies. Society accepts far too much. When will the politicians, and the people
in power, see what is happening to our "society".
Some families take their children to nude beaches, and camps, and children are
photographed nude, and their pictures are sold to pedophiles, or posted on the
Internet, but society doesn't care. Society and our government sees nothing
wrong with raising a child as a nudist, to them it is only an alternative
lifestyle. No one cares about what happens to the kids in these environments or
how they are being exploited. No one thinks about what these kids may be feeling
about themselves or what was done to them as they get older and start realizing
things for themselves. No one cares about what happens to them, or what they
might become or do as a result of years of being used and exploited for monetary
gain. No one cares about emotional abuse, only physical abuse. Mental abuse
leaves no outward scars that can be seen, so no one knows and therefore no one
cares, just as long as it isn't them or their children. But one day it could be
their children, because they didn't care enough to speak out against it.
When I read in the papers or watch the news on the TV about pre-teens and teens
having sex, little kids being raped and molested by other kids in the schools,
minors being prostitutes, and other children being kidnapped and molested, it
makes me feel sick to my stomach. These children are victims of an "adult"
society. Whether they wanted to become part of this "adult" world, or not, is
irrelevant. It happened, because the "adults" in this society, are not adult
enough to take responsibility for their own actions. The "adults" of this world,
don't see what they are doing to the following generations, by not setting
guidelines, and not acting responsibly. I sometimes wonder, are we really
adults, or just kids who took the wrong path, and never really grew up.
The reason that every generation is worse than before, is because of what they
grow up with, children cannot be children, they are growing up in a world
designed only for adults. Yet what is adult about porn, and nudity? What is
adult about sex? Is adulthood only centered around our own sexual needs, is that
adulthood? If one doesn't accept nudity, and does not wish to participate in
going to movies with nudity, or to accept magazines or advertisers of it, and
stands against it, then they are called immature, and not being an adult. Funny,
how being an adult has to do with being able to accept nudity and porn. I always
thought that being an adult was to rise above it. I thought that being an adult
was to take responsibility for our actions. I thought that being an adult was
being able to support ourselves in an honest living, and to try our best to do
what is right. I thought that being an adult meant trying to make the world
better. I thought that being an adult meant protecting the children, giving them
a safe and happy childhood, allowing children to be children and to retain their
innocence. But our society instead steals the innocence of children and exploits
it and them.
Using our minds to grow, and using new technology for advancement in knowledge
is to evolve as human beings. To merely use new technology to spread sexually
oriented material is to waste the minds of the young. Society isn't evolving
anymore it is now de-evolving. It is becoming animalistic. An anarchy. Without
direction and purpose in life, without knowing right from wrong, we are only
plummeting backwards in our evolution. When society accepts things that they
know in their hearts is wrong, but accept it, because they want to go with the
crowd, then society deserves what happens to them and their children, because
they did not care enough to stand up for what was right.
Personally, I have had my fill of society, I go by my own code of what is right
and what is wrong, and if society doesn't like it, then that is just too bad,
because according to society, even I have freedom of speech.
I do not believe in the Blue Ribbon freedom of speech campaign on the Internet
and I am against the opinions of the ACLU. And I wish that the government would
step in and regulate the Internet, and get the smut off it. The Internet was
designed for an exchange of ideas and knowledge. It was not meant for
pornographers to display their wares, or for men to degrade the bodies of women
and children by displaying them nude.
I am not a very religious person, but I do know right from wrong, and even with
knowing right from wrong, I have made some wrong choices in life, so I can
understand human weaknesses. I don't know for sure if there is any heaven or
hell, but whether there is or not, even if I die and my life ends at that, I
will know that at least I tried to be good in life, and did not accept something
which was wrong just because everyone else accepted it. At least I can be my own
person, and die with my conscience being clear. The people in our society are
self destructing, they are destroying the future, and they don't even know it.
That is all I have to say about society, I just don’t believe that women and
children have the respect yet that they deserve in this "society". I would call
myself a feminist, except that I don't think that I would want to be associated
with what feminism has evolved into in this day and age. I believed in the
reasons for the early beginnings of the feminist movement, but I think that in
some ways, it has gone too far, and that there is too much freedom in the world
today.
Freedom is wonderful, but too much freedom is
anarchy.