Double Standard: Assaults Ignored

Just one example of violence inflicted on peaceful pro-life protesters by pro-choice supporters.
A majority of incidents of violence between these two groups is inflicted by persons of pro-choice attitudes, but when was the last time anyone heard a report about this on the news?

This month in New Mexico, a pro-choice woman attacked some pro-life protesters, using her car keys as a weapon she inflicted a deep bleeding gash on one man's head. The violence was caught on video. Her car license plate number was noted and the police were called. By the time the video was posted to the site www.prochoiceviolence.com there had still been no responce by the police to the issue of this assault. Since then the woman has indeed been summoned to court to answer for assault and battery charges and a local news station ran a brief clip of the story. That is more news coverage than most violence against pro-life activists receives.

See the video that the national news media ignored: HERE.

I'm Here... Where Is My Mammogram?

Planned Parenthood claims they provide essential basic health care services to poor and underprivileged women.

Just TRY to find a Planned Parenthood in your area that actually offers the "essential" services (like mammograms) that they say they offer. There is a video you need to see.

Planned Parenthood and Mammograms

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Let's Discuss Modesty...

Reader discretion advised.



While surfing the web I recently came across an unsavory practice called "Bubbling".
It shocked me, but soon my brain saw how it can be used to illustrate an important point about the importance of modesty.

First of all an art instructor recently commented on how modern people undervalue the language of clothing. How a person dresses communicates to their viewer. Blindly following certain fashion trends is like parroting the words of another person without thinking of the content first.

Thus, the topic of modesty.

Most (I'd love to say "all") sane women would never go window-shopping downtown in nothing but their bra and underwear.
However, a large percentage of these same women don't blink twice when wearing a bikini to a beach.

What is the difference? Not much.
Really the only difference is that it has become socially acceptable to be unclad at beaches, but it is still considered "crude" to do so in town.

So what is the problem?
Men and women are different and the way their brains work follows suit.

Now I'd like to come back to where I started with the phenomenon of "Bubbling".
The pictures will explain what it is and why it is called what it is called.

Also, I'd like to postulate that this is (more or less) a pretty accurate example of the difference between the male and female view on the language of modesty (or lack of).

The girls see themselves "as is". This is to say, what the photo reveals is the image they are conscious of presenting to the world.





However, the current practice that some guys are using called "bubbling" reveals how the male brain (in most cases) is ACTUALLY seeing these girls.




Now, these are the SAME photos. In fact nothing at all has been subtracted from the scene. In fact, one could argue that more skin is covered up in the second set of photos.
However, most girls would be horrified if they saw "bubbled" photos of themselves.

Many parents have no problem with their teenage girls wearing bikinis. However I would bet that those same parents would have a very strong negative reaction to seeing their bikinied children in a "bubbled" photo.

I would hope that ANY female would be deeply disturbed by the fact that an innocent photo taken of them at the beach can be turned into soft porn without their knowledge.

Might I point out that the simple act of wearing even a one piece bathing suit makes it harder for your image to be abused and much easier for onlookers to maintain custody of their eyes. Though, even then, it still results in a somewhat uncomfortable image when "bubbled".


It is food for thought.
Perhaps we need to think about it more often.

Visual Exploration of The Creative Process

Compliments of Brain Pickings...
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I can soooo relate to these. :)

The Mystical Beauty of Iconology

Forgive the lack of posts last month. I have been out of town a lot this summer.

One such vacation was spent for a week at an iconography retreat up north conducted by the Prosopon School of Iconology. I have been awestruck by the profound depth of meaning put into these images. I feel compelled to look into the obvious and exciting connections between inconology and the Theology of the Body.

As I discover and enrich my own understanding of this breathtaking art I will share my observations with you.

For now, here is the image of my finished icon from the retreat.