This week we looked at, among other things, how media women in advertising. We watched a clip about Killing Me Softly that shows how media made women little more than objects. This is even taken to extremes where women’s bodies actually become part of a beer bottle, a car, etc. Even ads that targeted women treated them as objects. Buy this product or get this surgery just to look better for your man. These ads treat women as objects instead of people. There is more to a woman than just a body. There is also a mind, a heart, and a soul. There is a person.
There are Biblical truths to help illustrate this point. Firstly, women as well as men are made in the image of God. Genesis 1:27 (NIV) states, “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Women are not objects, but people which brings up the next point, how to treat a person?
Jesus answered that question in a couple of passages. The first quoted here is often known as the Golden Rule. Luke 6:31 (NIV) – “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” I’ll quote a section of Scripture here to provide some context for Jesus’ response to a question asked by religious leaders. It’s from Matthew 22:34-40 (NIV) – “Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’ Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’”
In regards to this week’s topic it can be thought of this way. Do you want to be treated as nothing more than an object? If not, then don’t treat or view others as objects. View them as the people they are.
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