Posted on 03/22/2011 3:50:08 PM PDT by iowamark
Women of a liberated generation wrestle with their eager-to-grow-up daughters—and their own pasts
...In a few years, their attention will turn to the annual ritual of shopping for a prom dress, and by then their fashion tastes will have advanced still more. Having done this now for two years with my own daughter, I continue to be amazed by the plunging necklines, built-in push-up bras, spangles, feathers, slits and peek-a-boos. And try finding a pair of sufficiently "prommish" shoes designed with less than a 2-inch heel...
A woman I know, with two mature daughters, said, "If I could do it again, I wouldn't even have slept with my own husband before marriage. Sex is the most powerful thing there is, and our generation, what did we know?"
We are the first moms in history to have grown up with widely available birth control, the first who didn't have to worry about getting knocked up. We were also the first not only to be free of old-fashioned fears about our reputations but actually pressured by our peers and the wider culture to find our true womanhood in the bedroom. Not all of us are former good-time girls now drowning in regret—I know women of my generation who waited until marriage—but that's certainly the norm among my peers.
So here we are, the feminist and postfeminist and postpill generation. We somehow survived our own teen and college years (except for those who didn't), and now, with the exception of some Mormons, evangelicals and Orthodox Jews, scads of us don't know how to teach our own sons and daughters not to give away their bodies so readily. We're embarrassed, and we don't want to be, God forbid, hypocrites...
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Where are you shopping?! I just did a random online check of several popular girls stores (Justice, Old Navy, Gap, CrewCuts) and, while they do have spaghetti strap tops, the tops are not belly-baring at all and there are no Daisy Dukes that I could find. Shorts, yes, but not the kind that let a person’s bum hang out. Many girls wear a t-shirt under their spaghetti strap top. It’s cute, and modest.
Empowerment is about impotence in reality. It is about cynical abandon.
These had cuffs, not cutoffs.....
What is hypocritical about saying "I did something and it was wrong, I regret doing it and I wish that you would learn from my mistake"?
I really don't get that concept.
Can only perfect people point out that something is wrong?
Or is there a empirical standard of what is right that is still true no matter who is saying it?
Smallish town 75 miles from Tucson.
Was shopping at Target.
P.S. We don’t have Justice, Old Navy, Gap or CrewCuts.
Yes.
Wow, great tactic! Mine’s 12 going on 22 and has been eschewed by her “friends” for wearing “old lady panties” instead of thongs. 12 year olds, thongs?
DON’T FORGET FLEA MARKETS ALSO.
Are you setting up any female circumcision parties for your girls, dumba$$? That's just about the dumbest thing I've heard in my 10+ years here.
Sometimes I just need to hear it.
Exactly. It’s extremely unprofessional. It is not business attire and it is not day attire either. Half the women on TV look either like they are about to go play tennis or to a cocktail party. It looks very stupid.
Also as of last summer or so, almost all women on TV, having gone about as far as they could with showing their boobs, then went to sleeveless dresses/tops. First, most women don’t have the arms to do that, esp. on TV. But this simply added to the inappropriateness of their look. I see Dana Perino in a sleeveless, lowcut dress— YUCK.
But the real point is that all all this skin does is cheapen the impact of seeing skin. Is that what people want?
The Libs managed to take the sexy out of sexy, every last bit of it. No wonder they are flailing about looking for some place, any place, any way shape or form, to find some kind of a thrill. Sex is a tired joke if you "discovered" it when you were six, your teachers shoved it in your face, like learning multiplication tables, from 2nd grade on, and you engaged in it just because with whatzhis/hername and now you're 30 years old and nothing normal is powerful like sex rightly should be . . .
Okay, this is from that site that is not welcome here, but it really is an article all y'all should read:
Reason #3:
3. You're a Slut. Hooking up with some guy in a hot tub on a rooftop is fine for the ladies of Jersey Shore -- but they're not trying to get married. You are. Which means, unfortunately, that if you're having sex outside committed relationships, you will have to stop. Why? Because past a certain age, casual sex is like recreational heroin -- it doesn't stay recreational for long.
Actually, casual sex pretty much ruins real sex forever. Sorry, but the thrill --- the real thrill --- is gone once it's gone.
At a lot of ‘fashion’ stores, there is nothing but garbage. When I was fifteen and worked at Fashion Bug, there was some good stuff, but these days it’s all garbage, with hideously low necklines.
Neither do I, although my 13 year old daughter shows no interest in 'tarting up'.
Fortunately (for both of us), she's never been subjected to, nor thrust into the sort of social prison that forces girls to 'follow the herd' off a cliff.
Depends... If they're still liberal, then they never figured out how stupid they were. Sort of like this author.
When I hit 18, my mom officially had five teenagers under her roof. She's still nuts to this very day .. LOL
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/in-february-univision-beat-nbc-growing-its-audience-as-four-major-nets-lost-ground/
“In February, Univision Beat NBC, Growing Its Audience As Four Major Nets Lost Ground”
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