If you venture to
Google.com on March 8 of any year, you’ll find a doodle
promoting International Women’s Day. I want to draw
your attention to this screenshot from 2018’s
doodle. It’s a depiction of women in all sorts of
professional roles, presumably roles they once felt
prohibited from obtaining.
You will also notice that there isn’t a single
depiction of a heroic, brave, woman having an
abortion, going into an abortion clinic, nor a woman
performing an abortion. It is as if this
vital, empowering act of womanhood isn’t really something people celebrate when it
is considered seriously. Why is this important aspect of womanhood missing?
Secondly, absent from the doodle are the women who have
risen up against the patriarchy to prostitute their bodies
for men, display their talents in pornography, or shake
“what their momma gave ’em” at a strip
club. What the doodler reveals to us
unintentionally is the worldview that we are all
born with God’s law written on our hearts. A law
which reveals to us the importance of women and their
inherent value as made in God’s image,
rather than what they can do for us sexually. Even the doodle maker at Google knows we don’t
celebrate the objectification of women publicly.
Yes, celebrate women today—and every day, because women are to be celebrated not for what they do or can do, but because God made them, and made them special. And even women the world won’t celebrate (prostitutes, strippers, drug addicts) are worth reaching out to with the gospel. For more on this topic you can read this post from last year on the same topic.
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