I’m not going to write a big post on this, but here is Exhibit A from the NY Post.
Excerpt:
Thousands of American teen girls are crushing on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, 19 — and leading a social-media movement to exonerate him.
The swooning teens will not accept allegations that the bushy-haired college kid — whom they refer to by his nickname, “Jahar” — and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, killed three and maimed hundreds by setting off bombs at the April 15 race and killed an MIT police officer during the ensuing manhunt.
While some scrawl the hashtag “#FreeJahar” on their hands with markers, an 18-year-old in Topeka, Kansas, is going to the extreme — she wants the Dzhokhar’s words inked on her arm forever.
“Getting one of Jahar’s tweets tattooed on me tomorrow. Guess you could say I’m a #FreeJahar supporter,” “@keepitbluntedd” tweeted on May 7.
The tatted-up teen, Alisha, told The Post she’d soon put Tsarnaev’s April 7 tweet on her upper inside of her arm. It will read, “If you have the knowledge and the inspiration all that’s left is to take action.”
The waitress insists she believes Tsarnaev is innocent because the evidence against him doesn’t add up. She read through all of his tweets.
[…]“@FreeJahar97,” who identified herself on Twitter as “Gianna,” a 16-year-old with “big boobs,” likened Tsarnaev to a heartthrob.
“Yes i like Justin Bieber and i like Jahar but that has nothing to do with why i support him. I know hes innocent, he is far too beautiful,” she tweeted on April 25.
This is not unexpected, because women were similarly attracted to Osama Bin Laden and Luka Magnotta.
What do we learn from this? Well, I read on Sunshine Mary’s blog that women are attracted to LAMPS, which stands for Looks, Athleticism, Money, Power, and Status. You can’t really question what women are attracted to, because that’s just the way they are. Similarly, men are attracted to things that are not terribly relevant to a successful marriage. It’s just a fact that tingles are not a reliable guide for selecting a solid mate, if the goal is really life-long, exclusive, committed married love.
I think that men are probably learning that physical attraction is no guarantee of performance in the wife and mother roles. Men are learning to be more careful because of the penalties for unilateral divorce for men. But somebody needs to be telling women that attraction and tingles do not translate into a lasting, stable, faithful marriage to a marriage-capable man. It translates into Tiger Woods and John Edwards. To really choose a man, you have to think about what roles a man plays in a marriage and then select a man who shows evidence of being able and willing to perform those roles.
What young unmarried women need to hear is that they need to be more careful about marriage as a vocation. Is anyone brave enough to hold them accountable? We have an epidemic of single motherhood, divorce, abortion, etc. Instead of blaming men for everything, let’s take a careful look at young women and see what they believe and how they have been influenced by pop culture.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Unchecked hypergamy is destroying Western Civilization. The 19th Amendment must be repealed at all costs.
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Ah, repealing the 19th Amendment, my favorite daydream…I know it won’t happen, but a girl can dream.
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Regardless of what happens to that, I wouldn’t mind if you were elected President.
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Even in the church I grew up in, I am afraid sometimes to say what I really think about the feminist movement, hypergamy, and the poor choices women make. Men tend to take the criticism, but women tend to blame, from what I have seen. This is not true of all women all the time, but while I see men brought to their knees over their mistakes, women are typically encouraged, even as they make them.
I hate the double standard. It leads to the silent and painful destruction of husbands, fathers, children, and families.
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I would say that this is one thing that liberal feminists and conservative pastors agree on. Women are encouraged to be led by selfishness and feelings, and men are chastised for not “manning up” and marrying them after they’ve made all their mistakes.
Read this post to see what conservative pastors are telling young men:
http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/single-mothers-and-the-failure-of-christian-men-it-is-time-to-man-up/
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“[W]omen are attracted to LAMPS, which stands for Looks, Athleticism, Money, Power, and Status. You can’t really question what women are attracted to, because that’s just the way they are.”
I would qualify this by saying that this is what many women are attracted to. I might even go so far as to say that this is probably the default setting for women’s attraction – at least in this culture where these things are held up as admirable. Women who simply absorb the culture around them will find themselves attracted to these things. However, what a woman is attracted to is under her control, to at least some degree. I believe the same is true for men as well.
For example, it is an immediate turn off to me to hear a man use foul language, smoke a cigarette, spout liberal nonsense, or say they hate kids. Whatever I might have thought of their good looks or charm totally vaporizes. I’ve learned to admire good character in men above looks and status. It’s not just that I know character is more important, but I actually find myself less physically attracted to men who have poor character. Partly that was due to being raised to value good character and partly that was due to making a conscious effort to be attracted to the right things. When my husband and I were dating, I found my physical attraction grow as I grew to admire his character more and more. Attraction is more than just initial butterflies.
What women need to be doing is learning to be attracted to things that really matter. Don’t go along with the crowd blindly. Don’t mimic your friends and the culture. Train yourself to be attracted to men who are good workers, who can have an intelligent conversation, who love children, who have a solid Christian faith. Train yourself to be turned off by those who are cocky rather than confident, foul-mouthed rather than well-spoken, lazy rather than hard-working. In short, determine those qualities that make a good husband and father and learn to be attracted to men with those qualities. Look for a man whose character you can admire, not one who looks like your friends’ favorite movie star.
So ladies, you can train yourself to be attracted to these qualities and pick a man who will love you for a lifetime and provide for your family. Or you can mindlessly follow the crowd and pick a handsome loser. It’s your choice. Just keep in mind that you have to live with the results.
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I agree that you have to train yourself to notice and value Godly traits in men rather than traits the culture promotes as being attractive. For me as a person who’s worked through trying to look at men in the right way, and women too (to not compare myself to them wrongly), I find that I not only have to become informed of what good traits are (we need to value the same way God does, the inner traits of faithfulness, humility, repentance, ect.) but I also have to fight myself to not evaluate people in the wrong way. Our culture is so strong in promoting “Lamp” qualities, you have to make sure you’re not getting brainwashed by the movies, songs, and books. I agree that being attrated to “lamp” qualities in a man is the default attraction, because if a person is passive about who they’re being attracted to, then it’s easiest to just listen to the brainwashing.
It’s pretty horrifying that those women would show such devotion to that man because they think he’s “beautiful”. Yet, there are many girls who also go gaga over Twilight monsters (literally a vampire and a werewolf) like Edward Cullen and Jacob Black. Yet to get down to the root of it, if a person prioritizes having fun over obedience to God, then all choices in their life are affected by that, including how they evaluate the opposite sex.
I read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte recently and I thought it was enjoyable seeing the way she evaluates Rochester and John Rivers. She admires Rochester for his ability to love and his intelligence, and she admires John Rivers because he is very intelligent and diligent, and she ends up choosing to marry Rochester and reject John Rivers because John didn’t know how to love. Yet I think she made an iffy choice with Rochester because he had a suspicious past with mistresses and an illegitimate child. Even though this is one of the better books I’ve read, the way the heroine evaluates things isn’t completely lined up with Scripture even though it seems there was some effort for it to. Another book I can think of is the last one in the Hunger Games trilogy. The heroine Katniss chooses Peeta over the other love interest because Peeta represented hope and peace to her and the other guy represented rebellion, in this case it was a heroine who was making choices based off of more than just looks. I’m not saying the choices the heroine makes in those books are great but I think this is one of the better examples of evaluation in our culture.
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Could not agree more.
I’m very blessed to have not just a fine father, but fine grandfathers and uncles as well. They all work hard—half of them are or were, in fact, entrepreneurs—are dedicated to their families, and thoughtful men. I think growing up around such men has a great deal of influence upon a woman’s later choices—to say nothing of the guidance of such men. Not only is Dad always looking out for me, even now that I’m married, at least two of my uncles would have been happy to threaten a pounding of a jerk or two in addition to, more importantly, giving me loving and wise advice.
Unfortunately, many women did not grow up in such a safe place, and fewer of today’s girls are. No wonder they can’t make a decent decision, much less train themselves to do so. What else are they to be attracted to, but flashy good looks? Raised in a superficial culture, they’re taught to value little else. Besides, they’re modern women who can care for themselves AND their (fatherless, because kids don’t need dads!) children on their own! And the walls get closer.
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Watch the You Tube lecture: ‘The Biology of the Theology of the Body’, by Vicki Thorn. She quotes the work of Dr. Lionel Tiger, who experimented with Depo-Provera, first on monkeys and then humans: “Austin” was an alpha male monkey who had three consorts which were injected with Depo-Provera, a progestin contraceptive. He soon dropped those females and sought out three others in the community. When all the females were injected, he went crazy, at first masturbating, then raping and finally, seeking out male sex partners. When the contraceptives wore off he went back to his first “wives”.
With humans, Dr. Tiger made several significant observations. Beautiful, stylish, contracepting women were passed over by men, for plainer, ovulating women. Male testosterone levels increased in the presence of ovulating women. Contracepting women tend to dress more flamboyantly – perhaps, to combat male disinterest. Ovulating women, picked genetically dissimilar males, with whom they are more likely to produce healthy progeny. Contracepting women, picked genetically similar males (who look like good providers, and are more like a brother or father). The outcome for genetically similar partners, if they stay together, is infertility, miscarriages or children with auto-immune syndromes. Usually, however, these unions fail after the women ceases taking the pill. She finds that she no longer likes the mate she chose.
Dr. Tiger is believed to be a pro-choice atheist. At a time when there is suppression of scientific evidence which does not agree with the ruling ethos, we should thank him for his intellectual honesty. He has written a book called ‘The Decline of Males’.
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One young woman I know outside church mentioned the other day “His accent, his eyes…you can see he was influenced by his older brother, and in that culture, you have to follow what your older siblings say and do, he should be set free, I can tell he really, really, really didn’t mean to do this. He is so cute, and sweet. Kinda shy, and us girls find that so hot.”
I posed politely, what if it was your husband, or child that was killed or perhaps disfigured for life in that bombing?
Not surprisingly, she got defensive, told me “Just because you were born here, what gives you the right to pass judgement on him, even the president said we have to get the facts before we rush to judge. The facts are he couldn’t have done something like this. He’s too sweet. His brother probably didn’t even tell him what they were going to be doing…and if the police were after you, wouldn’t your first reaction be “run and hide”? The Boston cops are known racists. We wouldn’t have a terrorist problem in this country if Bush had never been elected. So your question is silly.”
This movement to free him is bigger than most people think, and it is being led by “young women” and “teenage girls”
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Jason, was this woman a Christian? Please tell me that she did not claim to be a Christian.
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