Sunday, March 30, 2008

culture blurb...if this group ever found its full throated voice!

Hadia Mubarak, Muslim Feminist -- Our society's glorification of sex through the media, music and film industries has come to haunt us. Young girls as young as 11 and 12 years old are growing up in America believing that their value as human beings is based on their sexual appeal. Dressing beyond their age, young girls engage in hyper consumerism of skimpy clothing and cosmetics – not for their own gratification – but for the gratification of men. Young boys in middle school are growing up to believe that women were created for their own sexual pleasure. . . . As a Muslim feminist, I have a serious problem with our society's denial of this epidemic.