Hi Ladies!
Check out this great blog post by Makena Clawson, a sophmore at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Makena has a witty way of bringing out great points about how we can tend to let our emotions overrule our reason when it comes to romance. Here is a little teaser to whet your appetite...
Check out this great blog post by Makena Clawson, a sophmore at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Makena has a witty way of bringing out great points about how we can tend to let our emotions overrule our reason when it comes to romance. Here is a little teaser to whet your appetite...
I blame Ariel. She was always my favorite Disney princess, and now that I'm starting to search for a potential spouse, the standard they need to measure up against is Prince Eric.
Fabulous.
It's hard enough to find a guy with luscious, raven-black hair, to say nothing of a muscular build, sparkling laugh, nautical sensibilities and pipe-playing skills.
From a young age, women in our American culture are advertised into believing that we are princesses, that we deserve perfection when it comes to our prince, and that we will eventually settle down in a little romantic cottage or a glorious castle with little singing animals to help us tend to our chores.
But it gets better – after the princess stage we get corralled into reading preteen magazines and drooling over the heart-throb celebs whose life-size posters hung in our (okay, maybe just my) closet. For some reason a teenage girl has the power to hold out hope against all the odds that the movie star of her dreams would choose her over anyone else. I’ll admit I had my fair share of Zac Efron dreams (insert Luke Perry, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, or Justin Timberlake depending on your age).
Oh, but the saga continues. We get swept from preteen to “Seventeen,” and then on to romantic comedies and chick-lit in our high school and college days. So where does this leave grown women? For some, the obvious progression is shows like Desperate Housewives and its ilk, trashy romance novels and the new pornographic, best-selling “50 Shades of Gray” book series.
Why does pop-culture steer us in this direction and what effect does it have on women? The simple truth is that women will always eat up a good love story because we feel we are made to be in one. The only problem is we were made to be in one with our Creator and King of the universe, not to expect our flawed brothers in Christ to be our prince charming…
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Peace to your beautiful hearts,
- Sr. Elizabeth, TOR
- Sr. Elizabeth, TOR
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