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Article Title:	What Do You Wanna Be?
Author of reported comment:	Catherine H
Comment Date:	15:22 on Apr 14 2010
Comment:	Without being funny, Shell, the modern expression of Christianity in the UK at the moment is promoting women being WAGS, just as long as it's a Christian they marry, and they help out with the Sunday school. In churches I've been to recently, looking at Christian websites and what is advertised in the modern Christian world, women are to be a certain stereotype, and it's quite similar in a lot of ways to what society says women should be. Without meaning to be horrible, but you keep very much to mainstream fashion and what is seen as 'pretty', and your pose for the photo puts you across as a giggly girly girl with self-doubt. That's what I see when I look at your photo. It's what I see when I look at any photo of a woman published by any Christian organisation. Where is the diversity? I don't follow mainstream fashion. When I do look more mainstream, I'm told by other Christians how 'pretty' I look. I look 'pretty' because I chose different clothes. I'm still the same person with the same face and same body, but I'm 'pretty' when I look more like other people. Christians are still buying their young daughters dolls houses, dolls, fairy costumes, pink clothes and little kitchens to play in and play with, again, reinforcing that women are there to cook, clean and look after baby while looking pretty. I was frowned on by people in a church I went to, including the leadership, because I knew my Bible, and I said when I didn't agree with the teaching. That is the sort of church where it's taught that women are not allowed to teach, preach and prophesy because "It's Biblical". From what I've seen over the last few years, Christians are as guilty as anyone, maybe more so because we are supposed to know better and lift each person and their giftings up, in creating a vacuum in aspiration, especially amongst girls and young women.

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