Of all the major social media apps of the last 20 years, Instagram is the most distinctly feminine. Compared to its peers, IG is a beautiful app. It feels. It has a humane and relational texture that other apps, especially Twitter and Facebook, lack. Several things about IG create this, chief among them the app’s reliance on
There’s an interesting dichotomy presented in IG culture: the message that “you are enough” while also subconsciously pushing people to never be satisfied. For example, you can’t just buy a couple chickens and a sourdough starter and call yourself a tradwife. You must also have at least access to cattle, a passel of barefoot children, acreage, a victory garden, bees, a passion for all-natural everything, and a photography degree to capture it all. Aspirational is the nice way of putting it. IG has the potential for beauty, but that beauty without context or intentional worldview analysis has the potential to wreak havoc on the hearts of women.
It's interesting as well to note how much of this is true of women's YouTube feeds in general, and untrue of men's in general
There’s an interesting dichotomy presented in IG culture: the message that “you are enough” while also subconsciously pushing people to never be satisfied. For example, you can’t just buy a couple chickens and a sourdough starter and call yourself a tradwife. You must also have at least access to cattle, a passel of barefoot children, acreage, a victory garden, bees, a passion for all-natural everything, and a photography degree to capture it all. Aspirational is the nice way of putting it. IG has the potential for beauty, but that beauty without context or intentional worldview analysis has the potential to wreak havoc on the hearts of women.
I’ve seen #9 in your list doing a lot of damage — ladies need Jesus, not a farm on 40+ acres.
If He wants to give the lady a farm on 40+ acres, then awesome!
But getting the order flipped around is a textbook case of idolatry, and extremely damaging.
I'd get rid of it. Don't keep up with the Joneses and make new friends if they don't understand.