Imagine two girls walking down a high school hallway past a group of boys. Both are physically attractive, and they each overhear the boys murmuring numbers, ranking their various body parts favorably.
One girl feels violated by their evaluation (despite the favorable numbers) because she knows that they are interested in her only as an object of gratification and not at all as the deeply spiritual being God made her to be.
The other girl feels encouraged by it because she knows she’s playing the sexual enticement game successfully and their numbers indicate she has real value.
Which of these reactions is the real tragedy?
Is it the pain of a woman who feels insulted and demeaned by their objectification of her because she knows her value is so much greater than this?
Or is it the fleeting joy of a woman who has so little knowledge of her own true dignity and worth that she actually responds to being objectified as if it’s a compliment capable of temporarily boosting her tragically low sense of worth?
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