Beauty Distored

Another video done by Dove.  What a Photo Shop can do!!  Or should I say: what a Photo Shop can NOT do??!!

Beauty Onslaughter

A video done by Dove.  Please share this with your daughter(s) and take the opportunity to talk about self-image (the image created by God in His own image and likeness) and the distortion that is so prevalent in our culture. 

Woman's Life in 90 seconds

An interesting advertisement!

"Mozart's Sister": Look at a Sibling Reduced to a Footnote

The title of the movie review in San Diego Union Tribune (9/9/2011) shouted:

“Mozart’s Sister”

looks at a sibling reduced to a footnote

That sister, Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (known as Nannerl), born 1751, was said to possess a rare talent.  Mozart’s father (Leopold) was so dazzled by his son that he hardly has eyes or ears for Nannerl.  Her role has been decided.  An accomplished harpsichordist and singer, she served as her brother’s accompanist.  After a long tour (when Wolfgang was 7), Leopold forced her to stay home, where she took up her new role as wife, mother and footnote to a genius.

The review asked: is Nannerl a genius? a martyr? a feminist cause?  a disappointed daughter?  a resigned woman? or all of the above?

Culture and Woman’s Self-Understanding

                                             
Part of the headlines on today’s San Diego Union Tribune (May 10, 2011) is Camdr. Shanti Sethi, the first Indian American woman to command a US Navy warship (the destroy Decatur).

The Navy has 286 ships, fewer than 10 have female skippers. Out of roughly 1,500 active-duty commanding officers, 93 percent are men and 84 percent are white (1).  And obviously there is only one Asian American woman skipper!

I read this news with great interest.  A short woman (she is less than 5 feet tall and had to get a waiver to even get into Navy) with an Indian father and an American mother, Shanti Sethi was overlooked by her superior when first commissioned (even though she was one of the top students in class).  She “worked her behind off”, according to her mother, to where she is today.  When the ship she now commands docked in India this spring, it was a singular moment in history.  She became a “celebrity” in India (everyone wanted a picture of her to show it to their daughters).