Girl Is Dead
Girls are dead. Take a look around, Frederik, it ain't just God that's bit the bullet.
There are no more girls--innocent, free, carefree girls who wear what they want and do what they wish. Sure, there's always been pressure for women--we indocrinate them from the start with dress-up and dollhouses (and similarly, quite dissimilar stuff for dudes, but that's for another day)-- but now, more than ever, the girl does not exist--there is only a woman in her stead.
Yes, yes, sex sells--it always has and always will. Yes, yes, I've always been a buyer--I flip through People to see Paris's latest dress and oops...my eyes always seem to direct themselves to Britney. I once spent 35 dollars in Brazil on a horribly cheap Hanes knockoff t-shirt because I was tagteamed (saleswomanly, not sexually) by a pair of hot clerks.
But jaysus, look at what the girls are wearing and saying! I dug the hiphugger when I first saw it in Europe and South America. That was when 19-year-old + gals wore them. The thing is--11-year-olds don't have hips. Girls are using razors on parts unknown before there's even hair--like the boy shaving his hairless face--they want to be older; that means they want to be sexually mature faster..stronger..higher, than ever before.
Hiphop, in all of its potential in the nineties, has only exacerbated this. It was a medium for a message for inner city sufferers, initially. Now, with its "commodification", its "bling bling and women are whores and biatches" message has only made the situation worse. Gangstah has made girls into another commodity to be owned and used.
Where are the mothers, though? When the "girlwoman" is made up like a call girl and the thong strings are pulled up high like a tightrope--there is often a mother in tow, taking her to the mall, the outlet, wherever.
Our society has become a pornocracy. It's always been a little of this--harkening back to the 10th and 11th century when the ladies of the night--the courtesans--the whores --managed to sway the elites of the Papal court with their "capabilities"--but now the elites are the whores; they've turned the table on us and rehired the courtesans in the form of Paris, Britney and Christina.
Yeah, yeah, I know I'm a rogue, a scoundrel, a womanizing wannabe bohemian. And yeah, I'll probably never have a girlfriend because I'll never have a wife (or a woman) who will consensually produce offspring, but still...if I did have daughters I'd be scared shitless.
There are no more girls--innocent, free, carefree girls who wear what they want and do what they wish. Sure, there's always been pressure for women--we indocrinate them from the start with dress-up and dollhouses (and similarly, quite dissimilar stuff for dudes, but that's for another day)-- but now, more than ever, the girl does not exist--there is only a woman in her stead.
Yes, yes, sex sells--it always has and always will. Yes, yes, I've always been a buyer--I flip through People to see Paris's latest dress and oops...my eyes always seem to direct themselves to Britney. I once spent 35 dollars in Brazil on a horribly cheap Hanes knockoff t-shirt because I was tagteamed (saleswomanly, not sexually) by a pair of hot clerks.
But jaysus, look at what the girls are wearing and saying! I dug the hiphugger when I first saw it in Europe and South America. That was when 19-year-old + gals wore them. The thing is--11-year-olds don't have hips. Girls are using razors on parts unknown before there's even hair--like the boy shaving his hairless face--they want to be older; that means they want to be sexually mature faster..stronger..higher, than ever before.
Hiphop, in all of its potential in the nineties, has only exacerbated this. It was a medium for a message for inner city sufferers, initially. Now, with its "commodification", its "bling bling and women are whores and biatches" message has only made the situation worse. Gangstah has made girls into another commodity to be owned and used.
Where are the mothers, though? When the "girlwoman" is made up like a call girl and the thong strings are pulled up high like a tightrope--there is often a mother in tow, taking her to the mall, the outlet, wherever.
Our society has become a pornocracy. It's always been a little of this--harkening back to the 10th and 11th century when the ladies of the night--the courtesans--the whores --managed to sway the elites of the Papal court with their "capabilities"--but now the elites are the whores; they've turned the table on us and rehired the courtesans in the form of Paris, Britney and Christina.
Yeah, yeah, I know I'm a rogue, a scoundrel, a womanizing wannabe bohemian. And yeah, I'll probably never have a girlfriend because I'll never have a wife (or a woman) who will consensually produce offspring, but still...if I did have daughters I'd be scared shitless.
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Perhaps you are not familiar with recent or past history. Hip-hop is not the culprit, and never has been. It is a small fish in a big ocean. That is just some bullshit people say because there are lots of black guys in rap videos right now, but it's always been the same shit with rock and roll, pop, swing (I don't know bigger sadism then twirling around and swinging your female partner, and they love it too!), whatever, sex has been selling since way before Marilyn Monroe's dress blew up.
And that is because sex makes money, and our lives are and have been dictated on the premise that we must make money too. So we must use whatever it is we can to make as much money as possible. And the envelope must always be pushed.
I would venture to say that those 1-900 numbers have been doing just as much harm to women as rap videos. Maxim too, they aren't doing much to help, with their photoshopped 19 year old hotties wearing no clothes. And I didn't hear of Hustler donating to any women's shelters or anything either.
Matt.
Alas, the pornographication of the society, and yet, not a mention of the Samung in front of me right now.
Bread and Circus. The end is near my friend.
Pinner
Wonger, hiphop and gangstah are not the sole reasons, no. Marquis de Sade never watched MTV. And people have been raping and screwing and everything in between for years. What I believe is that the pornocratic aspects of our society has come to a nadir--we've reached an all-time high (or low, depending on how you look at it). So the negative aspects of hiphop aren't so much a cause, as much as symbolizing the overall effects. As I mentioned, it's all-encompassing--we have soft porn on the shelves veiled as Maxim or Details, etc.
too bad for you grandpa; tom wolfe already beat you to writing a book about 'kids these days'.
bite the bullet :
http://www.bartleby.com/59/4/bitethebulle.html
an ironic misuse of a cliche ? clever.
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