The following student report was submitted by Ambassador League Agent Lauren L. during the 2008-2009 League.
Mission: Research - Sanctity of Marriage
For six years, four women sat at a table in a busy restaurant, chewing on bacon and sipping coffee while discussing their lives. Ahem, let me correct myself, while discussing their sex lives. They each recounted the events they met the night before, disclosing all the juicy details about how great or their date was the night before. Taking apart their dates, emotionally, physically and mentally, was not a taboo subject. These four women took great pleasure in carelessly ripping their boyfriends apart. It just became a part of the routine. Oh, your boyfriend just lost his job and is feeling a bit on the inadequate side? Just toss out that comment and let your friends do what they want with it. His feelings don’t much matter anyway. He’s just a guy you’re sleeping with.
Is this shocking? Yes, I would say so. Is this the accepted practice? You tell me. Sex and the City ran on HBO for six seasons full of innuendo, inappropriateness and incest and its six million or so fans couldn’t get enough when it ended. So what else could HBO do but give the rights away to New Line Cinema and feed the hunger of the American public for more.
But what really bothers me about the show is the women's strong opposition to marriage. They reiterate, over and over again in nearly every episode, how a woman's life is over when she gets married. She can no longer hold down a full-time job. She can't go out and have a social life. She can't make big decisions anymore. She won't be taken seriously. With all these risks in marriage being shoved down the viewers' throats every episode, how can they help but not agree with them? These single women live wonderful, successful lives. They are happy and comfortable with who they are. They don’t need men, so why do I?
Well, if woman never needed man, then why was he created? Oh yes, of course. So that we could have something to ridicule!
Yikes. The feminist religion that this show pushes on its viewers is looked at in such a commonplace way. No one really cares about its immorality or inhumanity. Women are just going about their days, living life to the fullest while their men are just the handbag hanging on their arm, being the pretty accessory in their life.
But you know what? God didn't create man and woman this way. Mark 10, verses 6 and 8 testifies to His plan for us:
"But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female... And the two will become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one."
He didn't make one to be better than the other. He created each one with different abilities and characteristics so that the two could come together in marriage and become an amazing team, using the best of both of their abilities to accomplish God's plans for their lives. We are worth something and there is a reason why we there are two different genders on Earth. And it's not just about sex.
