Just cause everyone else is doing it...

I just have to get something off my mind about the whole Magic Mike controversy that seems to be plaguing Facebook and blogs alike.... To begin, I have not yet seen the movie. Will I? Maybe. But probably at home. I don't take a lot of time to go to the theater and when I do, I like to take my kids and NO, I will not take them to see Magic Mike, or Ted... With that being said, I do not know the story line of the movie, but I do know that a ton of people are concerned that Christians are going to see a movie about male strippers while calling themselves Christians. Fine. I get that. That is not my issue here, nor my place to make judgment. My issue with all this is the double standard of the whole thing. If we as Christians are going to get all up in arms about this movie, make judgmental (well meaning or not) comments on peoples Facebook pics of them at the movie with friends, type blog posts about how this movie doesn't depict masculinity, then WHY AREN'T WE FREAKING OUT ABOUT EVERYTHING GUYS GET TO SEE? My husband won't mind if I go see a bunch of hot guys without their shirts on. He knows they will never try to date ME. Heck, in fact, why should he even care? He can stay back and watch Victoria Secret commercials and see more than that. Or he could rent one of a million movies where they get to see the naked bodies of girls they've thought of as hot for years, let’s see, Wedding Crashers (don't remember any fuss about all the boobs in that movie), The Break Up (I KNOW my husband enjoyed seeing Jennifer Aniston's naked backside in that), Monster Ball (I remember thinking that was PORN one day when the guys were watching it at my house in college), The Big Lebowski, TITANIC, naked boobie drawing alert, every scary movie, ever, Basic Instinct, Sex and the City, not that guys really watched that, but the list goes on and on. Men have been looking at hot naked women forever and no one is saying that they shouldn't go to the movies. Not to mention, remember Showgirls??? Jessie Spano from Saved by the Bell all being a STRIPPER. HECK, even Independence Day had strippers. The main characters GIRLFRIEND was a stripper, Fresh Prince SAVED a stripper from the end of the world- no one had issues with that.... Remember when American Pie made women suddenly have the need to be a MILF? I had a friend recently say that they hoped they looked that way... Extra pressure. I bet a ton of mom's go to the gym now because that movie got it in their head that they needed to be a HOT mom... My point is, men see sex and hot naked women EVERY where they look. Billboards, magazines, commercials and most certainly movies. THUNDER GIRLS?!?! People, there are half dressed dancing girls posing with your children and we think it's COOL. Why is it that when a movie is actually made for WOMEN to enjoy, suddenly it is all about religion? If we are going to get upset that women are out looking at hot guys and I guess, wishing their husbands looked like that or fantasizing about them later (is THAT the concern here?) Then why don't we protest the VS Fashion Show? I saw about 100 posts on FB the night that was on. Mostly from girls feeling like they can never eat again. Why don't we discourage guys from going to bachelor parties that involve strippers? Why do we idolize women who walk on runways three weeks after having a baby? Why are we so upset about a MOVIE that may have improved the sex life of a married couple by reminding the wife that it is OK to be sexy for your husband and not about anything else? Maybe I am just bothered because the media makes me feel SO UNhot. I'm not tall, super skinny, half naked or anything. Or maybe it's because I have a daughter now, who I am so afraid will believe that she has to be a half dressed 'easy' girl for boys to like her or to fit in with other girls. Who knows. I just think that if we are gonna get upset about half dressed men with gyrating hips that we should get upset with half dressed women doing the same thing, making all us girls feel fat, short and over dressed...