Are any of you offended by the commercials today? No aspect of a person's life is sacred now and children are introduced to mature ideas way to early. Subtlety is gone, and in-your-face selfishness is rampant. The instigator of my current rant is the Beyaz birth control commercial. The commercial consists of women wandering through a store of all the things they could want in life: significant others (heaven forbid we say husband), homes, and trips. The one thing it makes sure to let us know is that children are not wanted and it seems to imply that they would actually get in the way of the things that are wanted. So of course, the only answer to this is to buy their birth control. With Beyaz, you can have everything you want without any little "problems," and you get clear skin - bonus! "You know what you want today, but you never know what you might want tomorrow." That's right! Sex today and no consequences to mess up what you want for tomorrow - SELFISH!
This commercial seems to imply that birth control is one step toward attaining the perfect life you want. It's a lie. Birth control's only purpose is to prevent one from getting pregnant (I'll grant exceptions to those with severe feminine issues that are resolved by managing hormones through birth control pills.) It does not get you the great job; training and hard work get you that. It doesn't get you a great vacation; planning and saving get you that. It doesn't get you a great husband; wisdom, time, and God's blessing get you that.
Single women, if you don't want to have children, stop having sex. These birth control people just want to make money off of you. If they could sell abstinence, they would. But sex sells and abstinence doesn't, and so today's commercials just get wilder and wilder.
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