A Woman, I am

First off, I want you to watch this video.

I absolutely love this video! I love what is says about women. 

Elder Russel M. Nelson said in the October 1989 General Conference that, "A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life". He goes on to say, "Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission". 

So what are those "attributes" that he talks about? He goes on to list a few:

• A Devoted Daughter of God
• More concerned with being righteous than being selfish
• More anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion
• More committed to integrity than notoriety 
• She knows of her own infinite worth

All of these traits are what makes up a worthy woman. A woman who idealizes the idea of progressing forward. A woman who isn't afraid to express her womanhood.

I'm not going to lie, I had to look up what "notoriety" means. It means being widely known. I find it very interesting that he compared integrity verses being notoriety. The question that it posed for me, is being notorious mean that you have to sacrifice your integrity? Can you not have both of those qualities at the same time? 

In the world today, women are degraded and put down. Many woman are passionately fighting for feminism.Though, in order to achieve that goal they are sacrificing some of the standards that woman should be promoting in order to receive those equal rights. Woman seem like they have to give away everything to achieve that point of equal rights. They have to change their appearance for a man. They have to have sex for a man. They have to look skinny for a man. Part of the woman's right movement seems have woman changing themselves in order to reach some 'higher standard'. Why? Are we losing ourselves? Is it worth it?

In 2007 alone, 3.05 Billion dollars was spent on cosmetic procedures. This doesn't include the money spent on make up, or on clothes/fashion. 

50% of teenage girls use unhealthy weight control behaviors

67% of woman are trying to lose weight

13% of woman smoke to lost weight (also promoting the percentage of breast cancer cases)

What do all of these statistics have do with the video? With the progression of time, women have been degrading themselves. Society has set a standard on women that they are to be skinny. Society has set a standard on women that they are to be sexy. Society has set a standard on women that they should change

48% of First Children are born to unwed mothers. 48%!!! . What has happened to the standard family? What has the degradation of women done to the idea of the common American family? 

On the subject of women's rights and consequences, one example that seems to have been on my mind the past couple of days is abortion. 

Woman say, "It's my body", "It's my right". "The fetus is not alive." Here's what I have to say. And I know that this is controversial- but bare with me. I think that abortion is a way for women get out of paying for their consequences. People pass off the idea of Pro-Choice as women's rights, when in reality it is just an excuse. A fetus is life. Granted, at first it may not be alive in the sense that it is living on its own without the support. Though, if you classify something to be alive, does it have to be living without support? For example, is a man on a heart-lung machine, "alive"? He is depending his life upon a machine, instead of his own life-sustaining organs. Does that make him not worth living if his loved ones didn't want him to?

You might argue that Pro-Life is only arguing for the potential of life. You might debate that it is arguing that we should preserve the "potential of life", and that is pointless. 

I disagree. The "potential" to do anything is what makes this country phenomenal. The potential for greatness is what has led to the major discoveries that have aided society for the better. The potential for achievement is what has propelled the entrepreneur mindset and has led to the millionaires and the billionaires that have showed the idealism of what America is supposed to be about. 

Abortion is an excuse. You made a choice, you should have to suffer the consequences. Isn't that the natural way of life? Women should have to pay the price instead of using it as excuse from consequences and an excuse for women's rights. 

Henceforth, I don't believe that women should change themselves for a man. I don't think that they should change themselves for society. I do think that they should change themselves if is it what they want. On the flip side of that, women SHOULD NOT be changing themselves and lowering standards. I agree with Colbie Caillet. We shouldn't have to "try"to please a man. We should try to better ourselves, and thus better the society around us. That is what the Women's Rights Movement is all about.