And I couldn't help but notice that almost every webpage I came across had pictures/videos of young girls posing innapropriately and exposing their bodies in advertisements. Selling themselves.
Slogans as "hot girls fast", "young and ready" were plastered all over their bodies. And for what?
It made me so incredibly sad. What happened in these girls lives for them to be okay with devaluing themselves that much. What makes them okay with posing half naked on the internet for the disgusting pleasure of complete strangers. Who told them they weren't valuable. And precious. And beautiful. And worth far more than rubies or gold.
I want to know. I want to put them in trackies and hoodies and hug them. Tell them about a God that loves them more than they'll ever know. Tell them that their worth goes beyond anything in this world. Tell them their value. Tell them they're beautiful. Love them.
And what kind of world are we living in where human beings- complete strangers- ENJOY looking at half naked pictures of teenage girls like that? What girl in their right mind would want to do that if they had a healthy self esteem, sense of self, a family that loved them, a safe and comfortable life- all the things every person deserves? So if these girls are doing this from a place of pain, insecurity, desperation, poverty, hurt, brokeness....why would you enjoy that? Enjoy someone elses pain?
I just don't understand. Why does this industry even exist? These girls need, and deserve love. And someone to believe in them. Hold them. Love and protect them unconditionally. Someone to teach them their worth and value.
Why have our society become so comfortable and accustomed to seeing these images and videos all over our computers? tvs? magazines?
I heard my dad say before to my little brother (again, whilst on the internet doing his homework) "Charlie don't look at those pictures"
But "those pictures" are little girls. Sisters. Daughters. Friends.
They're princesses.
If only they knew.
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