Why do so many advertisements, movies, and magazines depict women in expressions of aggressive, domimating, almost violently intense lust. This is sometimes referred to as "provocative" or "seductive" or "aggressivly sexual" but all of these labels are misleading and a trifle insulting. Women are naturally seductive (coming from the Latin "se" and "ductio", meaning "to lead someone after one's self). Women are naturally sensuous, beautiful, powerful, and when healthy, the are confident in their power and charm. Women are naturally provocative to men as well. This is not just because of concupiscence. Which leads me to my next point.
Women are called by God to be happy in innocence. Do not misconstrue innocence as naivete, or ignorance. Women are ideally supposed to be happy, confident, secure in their power, free, passionate and innocent. And in all of those qualities...women are breathtakingly beautiful. Instead, what the culture is too often trying to persuade us is that beauty is not only taut, half-starved, strained, never at rest, unnatural, painful and extremely rare but that it is dirty, slavish, masocchistic or sadistic, dominating or submissive, relentless or needy, obsessive, insatiable, and dehumanizing.
I am enamored of beauty. In fact, I worship the God who is Beauty itself. I want to see women like me portrayed as they are suppossed to be, peaceful, joyful, loving, nuanced, captivating, multi-faceted, mysterious, powerful and innocent.
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