Posted on 12/01/2006 9:23:25 AM PST by meg88
Perhaps youthful celebrities like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are more to be pitied than blamed. Certainly, one branch of their education has been sadly neglected: No one has ever taught them how young ladies climb out of vehicles -- knees together, both legs lifted simultaneously, torso swiveled, feet placed firmly on the pavement.
In recent days, this oversight has evolved into something of a public spectacle. Websites devoted to celebrity gossip have featured plenty of pictures of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan climbing out of cars.
The problem is this: Young women like Lohan and Spears are, in fact, serving as role models to girls all over the United States. A poll conducted last year by Teenage Research Unlimited found that Lindsay Lohan was the person most envied by teen girl respondents.
What's most remarkable is the deafening silence from the larger culture that has greeted the antics of the young starlets.
It's hardly admirable that adult males say nothing about the exhibitionism, but perhaps it's understandable; while they may not respect young women like Lohan and Spears, the visuals are doubtless intriguing. But older women who fail to speak out about why Spears' and Lohan's behavior is inappropriate and wrong become complicit in it on a much deeper level.
By their silence, they are allowing little girls (like they once were) to absorb the destructive message that vulgarity is the same as sexiness, that exhibiting oneself to be stared at or drooled over like a prime cut of meat constitutes "empowerment," and that it's "cool" to flaunt one's sexuality indiscriminately, rather than sharing it with a man who's shown he's interested in more than just another female body.
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And when older women do voice a negative opinion about these things, they are immediately ridiculed by one and all as being jealous, envious, out of touch, overly religious, etc.
I fear it is too late.
One of the most moving experiences for a man is to watch the elegance of a fine woman.
My ex wife was a lithe blond that had done some modeling, to watch her casually descend stairs was a beautiful thing.
Another friend before smoking became ugly, she smoked Virginia slims, she would elegantly let me light it, she never made more than 2 or 3 draws per cigarette before putting it out, of course setting it in the ash tray each time.
Girls used to be taught posture and movement, and it was a beautiful thing.
Every body knows that men will all stop to look at a beautiful woman, but the rooms eyes will also focus on a elegant woman.
Only to liberal families.
So let's face it, The problem is...
They got no couth!
If I could get some TV time, I'd speak out about it.
Ijust had an "oops."The "is" isn't used properly. Delete from your thoughts.
And this will probably stick, too. My boy, when about 11 years old, was forbidden to go into the part of the theater showing "Terminator", but was shunted (along with his chum) into the part of the theater showing "Pretty Woman". To this day, whenever he sees Julia Roberts on TV, the first thing out of him is "Cheap, just cheap - she's not pretty, she's cheap."
An elegant woman is usually 5'8" and taller =(
Skanky is not attractive, even in our depraved culture.
Oh, well, that clears up everyone's concerns. There is a REASON. That makes it OK. Got that one.
Does Britney honestly think anyone wants to see her C-Section scar? So gross...
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
I should have heeded your warning. I've heard the term "publicity whore" before, but now I have seen it.
Britney deserves a spanking. Who wants to go first?
I wonder if Britney has a father. As far as I know she didn't grow up in an abusive situation. She has no porn background, and she has two infants at home. I'm actually surprised she would flash the world with a Playboy crotch shot.
I remember several years ago someone posted a picture of some starlet getting out of a limo (on a musician site I frequent). You could see up her skirt and she was wearing no undies. It was pretty shocking at the time.
I can sure understand why it is so easy for so many of the muslim useful idiots to hate the US.
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