Oh, I don't know where to begin. Let me just say that if I hear Carly Rae Jepson's song, "Call Me Maybe" one more time, well, it has already driven me to the brink. And I don't want to infer here that Selena Gomez is a "bimbo," but I do feel that the way that girls/women are portrayed in pop culture targeted toward my children is overwhelmingly passive, and image-obsessed.
As an example, one of my daughters is constantly asking me about her clothes, her earrings, her hair ... I am not sure what message to send here. "Ah, yes, nice earrings ..." so what. Maybe it's a boy/girl thing, or it's just that my daughter(s) happen to be very "girly." But something else is going on here.
Go back a decade, two decades, three decades ... it was more "I am woman, hear me roar." Who was the biggest female pop star of the 1980s? MADONNA. Any more questions? The 1990s? Well, even the SPICE GIRLS exuded "real girl power." BRITNEY was, of course, a portent of things to come. But even Britney could be in your face. Today's pop singers in contrast are milquetoast and wilting. Nobody takes them seriously.
To put it simply, I just wasn't raised among women like these, I wasn't raised to raise women like these, and so I am having a hard time knowing how to react to this stuff. I don't want to be an idealogue, some kind of control freak, but I feel like I have to stand against a culture that tells you that doing your hair is more important than doing your homework.
