My Media Rant

I feel the need to rant because I'm getting pretty angry.  What is up with televison these days?  Seriously.  I am so sick and tired of shows that start out pretty good but eventually become saturated with sex.  I understand that I might be old fashioned but I'm not going to appologize for that.  I am so increadably sick of the casual attitude toward sex that our society has adopted.  Everyone is so shocked by hight rates of teen pregnancy but yet our kids watch shows where sex is no big deal.  Everyone does it.  It won't affect you in the long run.  You're strange if you are still a virgin by the time you reach university.  BULL CRAP.  Why have we become so complacent that we just stand by while media keeps bombarding this stuff at us.  And, not only does it affect teens but it affects adults too.  It affects our marriages.  We are so shocked by the high rate of divorce (even amoung "christian" people) but yet we (and I totally include myself in this) watch TV and movies where sex and relationships have one sole purpose, to make us happy.  Umm, I may have only been married for seven years but I'm pretty sure no one has a marriage where they are happy all the time.  If we were to live out what hollywood tells us then we would have to ditch our spouse everytime things got tough...... oh wait.... the majority of society does that.

But wait, there is still more.  We let our teenage boys and we drag our husbands to movies where the women are scantily clad and making continuous sexual inuendoes and we wonder how so many boys and men struggle with pornography.  As women we don't think anything of it because, lets face it, we have those parts and they are no longer amusing.  But, God did design men to like those parts and the more they are flaunted on television, in movies, at the mall, in restarants, the more men are going to continue to struggle. 

Oh, and I have more ranting to do.  What is up the previews for 14A and R rated movies.  I don't want to see R rated movies and I certainly don't want my two year old to see them but as we watch "Till Debt Do Us Part" at 4:00 in the afternoon there are previews for them!!!!  I no longer watch live TV with my kids.  Not even kids channels like Nickelodeon because there are previews for movies that are frighening for my two year old and I can't take those images out of her head once they are there.  Even walking past the entrance to the movie theater at the mall has movie posters with scary images on them.  You might think that I am being overprotective but that's ok with me.  I will guard my little girl's heart as much as I can.  As she gets older and able to understand more, then I will explain more to her and help her navigate this crazy world.  I don't need media to do it for me, especially when I didn't ask for it.

I could go on and on but I won't.  I just want to put those thoughts out there.  If you think I'm being ridiculous then you are totally entitled to feel like that.  But if you've been thinking some of these things as well, then know that you are not alone.