I don’t know if it is because I just finished reading the Hunger Games series (and watching the movie) or if it is because of the disgusting stories I keep hearing about new ways in which young women are subjecting themselves to sexual exploitation but I am fired up!
To all of you young ladies in high school, hear me out. I watched hundreds of you line the streets to watch Hunger Games this weekend and I can’t blame you! Who doesn’t want to watch a heroin stand up for what she believes and for the common good of humanity. I applaud Suzanne Collins for allowing the protagonist to be a young woman who is not just intelligent but purposeful. Katniss Everdeen and her counterpart, Peeta, don’t want to be ‘just another piece in the Capitol’s games’ and they make certain to find those key moments to show they can’t be ‘played’.
So to all of you whom I saw waiting anxiously in line to see the much anticipated movie I pray you left feeling empowered to take a stand for YOU!
You see, the movie made me think about how the scenario of the Capitol vs. the Districts is very similar to an underlying battle we face every day – Sexuality vs. Integrity. I hear about all sorts of atrocious behaviors going on in high school, and I’ve even blogged about a few, but this new ‘game’ just adds to the heap of disgusting. I’m not certain if it has an official ‘tag name’ to it but the jest is to ‘have sex on the dance floor without getting busted.’ Okay, granted that is bad enough as it is but to me it gets worse…a crowd of people is in on the game. At a dance they form a circle and dance crazy and bring the circle in real tight while the couple goes at it in the middle. (I use the term ‘couple’ very lightly as I’d assume no truly loving couple would want to display their most intimate moment like rabid dogs in the midst of a pack of wolves.) With the tight circle around them no adults can see. Used condoms have been found on the dance floor.
Yes, this is going on. No, my source(s) do not just ‘make this stuff up’ to be creative.
So why am I focusing on the young women? Because why other reason would a young woman want to subject herself to such demoralizing behavior than to feel the pressure to submit to the intoxicating acceptance that the use of her sexuality can bring. Young women today are like addicts in need of a fix wanting desperately to always be accepted, desired, needed and loved. (I get this, I lived through this as a teen myself.) Through the desensitization of sexuality in society they no longer see the gift in their integrity. Their integrity doesn’t get them boyfriends or the fifteen minutes of high school fame. Many that suddenly realize their true state of deprivation are so dependant upon the high of the use of their sexuality that they have no idea what having integrity means, let alone what that power can feel like.
If a young woman was empowered by her integrity and a young man was pulling her into the middle of this sex circle she’d haul off and kick him where his sexuality really hurts! And then let those pack of wolves really see what a woman of integrity can do! Now THAT I’d like to hear about! 😉 Ladies, I KNOW you can overcome. I’ve been intoxicated by the lies and have lived through the detox to find the woman God created me to be and so can YOU!
Parents, TALK about this with your teens! Grandparents, TALK about this with your grandchildren. Aunts and Uncles TALK about this with your nieces and nephews. Don’t hide your head in the sand and act as if ‘that kind of stuff doesn’t go on where we live’… don’t be a fool!
“But God said to him, “You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?” Luke 12:20
Ladies, take that stand against society’s exploitation of your sexuality. REVOLT and get your integrity back!
Blessings
Shannon