On the latest US Political Scandal
Sister Hadia Mubarak writes at the Washington Post “On Faith” blog that the recent sex scandal surrounding Elliot Spitzer, and how it is simply reflective of a culture that is afflicted with a defective sense of morality.
It didn’t take Spitzer’s fall to reinforce the fact that our society is undergoing a moral crisis and it’s time we pay attention to it. Whether walking through the mall or watching television, I am constantly bombarded by an invasive level of ‘soft porn’ that is widely accepted as ‘advertisement.’ The greatest culprit, the marketing industry, caters to men as their primary consumers, appealing to their scopophilic desires (obtaining sexual pleasure by looking at nude or erotic images) and projecting women’s bodies as commodities. The sexually provocative images used to sell nearly everything – from a pair of jeans to a chocolate bar – depict women in a way that subconsciously leads to their degradation and objectification.
…and her point is?