Well, you might have
concluded that the fems had thought of everything for their recent
Love Your Body Day. After all, they pride themselves on being state-of-the-art
when it comes to intelligence and relevancy.
In their web-site outline
of recommendations to members, NOW lists under Body Image Actions
that NOWers are to lobby "to add 'size' and 'physical appearance'
to local, state and national anti-discrimination legislation."
As if we don't already
have enough special categories for that consideration! Eventually,
no one will be able to be a part of any minority. Really now, can
we press one more whatever into the box of "anti-discrimination"?
Further, NOWers are
to "put pressure on companies that discriminate against fat people.
. ."
With that, members are
to "picket beauty pageants." And "throw away or burn... bathroom scales,
diet books, tapes or videos, calorie counters, tape measurers, make-up,
high heels, one-size-fits-all clothing, advertising that objectifies
women, etc."
So there you have it,
fems. Get as fat as you want and run for NOW president, though of
course obesity is broadcast daily as a major problem in our nation.
So, dare we ask: What's wrong with the NOW picture?
Now if that's not enough,
NOW champions organizing an annual International No-Diet Day Action.
Plus: NOWers are to "lobby the Food and Drug Administration to control...the
diet industry."
But there's more: NOWers
urge members to "picket shoe manufacturers and shoe stores...Poorly
designed shoes" are a major national problem.
So are the "large size
women's clothing stores that actually don't carry sizes above those
of regular department stores." NOWers are to picket those stores.
Further, along with
this goes NOW fighting accessibility problems. That is, "large-sized
people are discriminated against because of seating in restaurants
and theaters, on airplanes and other forms of public transportation,
and because of turnstiles that prohibit."
Naturally, the bottom
line to all this is strongly accented at the close of the NOW mandate.
It simply reads: "Stop dieting, avoid participating in the diet culture."
So that's the extent
of Love Your Body as far as NOW defines the precious temple Creator
God has given us for this earthly sojourn.
Understandably, sizing
up one's body solely in secular terms yields nothing more than NOW's
earth-bound agenda. How sad, for when one realizes that the body is
a God-presented gift to be cared for, nurtured and regarded as the
temple of God, then the love for that body is defined in terms of
holiness.
Surely then, realizing
the human frame as a holy entity, one of the prime accents for a female
body is hallowing any pregnancy therein with care and thanksgiving.
Yet unfortunately that
primary accent is consistently missing from any recommendations list
of the National Organization of Women.