Someone's gonna read this and get infuriated because I'm gonna hit this blog up with straight TRUTH.
I'll say this right now though... if you read this and get offended, it only lets me know that you fall into the category and the issue lies in YOU. So don't you dare waste either of our time writing some long insult to my inbox because that's just gonna make you look like an ignorant 5 year old.
But here's why I'm writing...
Myspace, Facebook, and Youtube: Particularly for SOME of the ladies... who raised you to jump in front of a camera in a bra and a thong and take very suggestive shots of your goods, or bounce your butt around like some hooker? You're like 12 dong stuff like that? I'm sorry but you look trashy doing that. Or do you WANT all of that recognition from all these guys (or girls however you roll)? If you want recognition on that level... no forget it... I won't finish that.
Music: Half of you know what I'm gonna say to this... because I've been asked various times why I don't listen to secular rap. As I'm typing this, I'm listenin to Yes by Lil Wayne just to hear the lyrics. I'm disgusted at the fact that kids as young as SEVEN are listening to this and basically glorifying this stuff as if it's no big deal.
Music has a very powerful force on it's listeners. For example, if you consistently let your ears feed on songs that talk about drugs (and I'm not talkin about D.A.R.E. either... I'm talkin about songs like "I Get High"), that'll take root in your heart one day and you'll be more likely to get into drugs little by little than the average person. If you consistently feed on Lil Wayne's songs, you're more likely to fall into the same trash that he spits about (Everyone knows that he's not talking about a LITERAL lolipop...............)
I've heard excuses for listening to this garbage like "I like it because the song's hot yo!!!"
REALLY NOW?
"Kidnap that fool!!!"
"If you drunk up in the VIP say let's get dirty!!!"
"F*** the police!!!!"
"She got a donk" (DUMBEST song I've heard)
"Just got my report card, Looked at it all F's took it to the teacher's desk, throw some D's on that..." (OK... Maybe THIS is the dumbest song I've ever heard)
Yeah... real hot. If you like criminals, drunkards, and academic failures.
HOWEVER. Some songs aren't bad, the majority of them are.
Sex and Society's View of Love: My worrrrdd... I'm not beating around any bushes here. WHY ARE PEOPLE AS YOUNG AS NINE (I say again... NINE ) HAVING SEX?! We have a generation who lives, breathes, eats, sleeps, and dreams about sex, some of them in 5th grade or younger. Don't even give me the stupid line "teach em while they're young!", because what you're rooting in to them is that sex is all good no matter who you are, and the more of it you get, the better. Totally wrong. Or did we forget to warn them about the failure rates of condoms, the fact that a baby can wiggle out of you in nine months, and you can get get some nasty disease that you may be stuck with all the way to your grave? And the biggest one... we don't tell them about God's view on all of this! Outside of marriage, it's wrong!!
Now love... why are people under the impression that love is sex, or love comes after two months?? I'll tell you right now, love is only love in marriage, not sex. I've seen relationships that die after years because neither person knew what love truly was. That's really the bottom line... love ain't just some empty word, and it's not introduced through premarital sex.
The bottom line: We are openly INHALING the junk this world is throwing at us and accepting it as truth! Look at us! Everyday, we regress as people... not progress. It just kills me inside.
"I'll tell you right now, love is only love in marriage, not sex. I've seen relationships that die after years because neither person knew what love truly was. That's really the bottom line... love ain't just some empty word, and it's not introduced through premarital sex."
People get married because they are in love. They are not in love because they are married. A piece of paper from the government doesn't mean you're in love. Neither does a party or words from a religious leader. Sure relationships have failed after years of being together, but so have marriages. Some that have been together for twenty years or more.
No, promiscuous sex should not be glorified, because it has risks. And yes, sex should occur because of how the parties involved feel about each other. But sex is normal, and natural. Making it taboo only makes kids feel guilty for having feelings they can't help. But just because they have these feelings, doesn't mean that they should act on them all the time.
As for what you say about music, I think that the music has more to say about society, as that is what it is a product of. Lyricists write like that because its what we buy.
Like what you've read? Well, then here's more:
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/tricia0711
I'll tell you right now, love is only love in marriage, not sex.
Basically what Misnomer said... you are not in love because you marry. Our society doesn't function like that anymore, we no longer have arranged marriages where the parties grow to like each other. Rather, we grow to like each other and eventually get married because of it.
Now love... why are people under the impression that love is sex, or love comes after two months??
You're right, love is not sex. But I've fallen in love after dating a guy less than two months. One of my friends is getting married in June to a guy she fell in love with in a short amount of time, and she didn't believe it possible either until it happened to her. Is it the kind of love that's present after 50 years of marriage? Of course not... the feelings between two people grow and change over time and many relationships fail because that intense loving feeling that lasts about a year goes away and they can't seem to get it back.
And, as a side note, one of my coworkers made some comment today about sex being unhealthy. He says his wife told him so. He's in his 30's. If people like him with a huge libido think such things, then I don't think the problem lies in us teaching our children that sex is a good thing.
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I'll say this right now though... if you read this and get offended, it only lets me know that you fall into the category and the issue lies in YOU. So don't you dare waste either of our time writing some long insult to my inbox because that's just gonna make you look like an ignorant 5 year old.
So, you basically don't want to hear any arguments to what you're claiming in this blog at all? We just take you at your word and if we happen to disagree and decide to express that disagreement in the form of a comment to your blog, it means we look like ignorant 5 year olds?
I sure hope you're not offended by this statement, but that's not how it works. If you want to post something controversial, you need to take the arguments and criticism that come with it. You don't just get to post and then dance away with a simple "don't reply because disagreeing with me makes you ignorant."
If you're not prepared to defend your statements, or if you're not willing to hear views different than your own, then maybe you should rethink posting them in a public forum.
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But I sure do have to disagree with you on many points.
Music: to me music is a tool to let me feel, just because I listen to me and my drank by weezy doesn't mean im out drinking codine/sprite mixed drinks getting tossed.
When hard core music first came about, close minded people thought it was the devils music, even with bands like norma jean who are 100% christians.
Hit the lights has a song called body bag, and it talks about beating someone to death, im no more likely to go kick some ass, but it makes me feel good when im mad.
Recon has a song about politics and during the break down they say burn this city to the ground, I never feel im an arson threat after hearing that song.
Ani defranco has a song talking about her abortion, but I've never had one.
Love & sex: first, god shouldn't be why people wait to have sex, waiting is about self respect, and self worth. You don't have to wait til marrige to have sex, teaching saftey is better than masking the truth and teaching abstinance.
Love doesn't only exist in marrige, I know personally, I don't want to get married, when I love someone I'll love them 100% and I don't need a piece of paper saying im in love. Also my parents were married 19 years before their divorce. So obviously their marrige didn't constitute their love.
Both love and sex go so much deeper than you attempted to explain!
But I will say kudos on the part about girls feeling the need to jam their tits up aginst the camera lense for attention, I totally agree, that's not beauty, its the exact oppisite.
Cheers.