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.
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I agree 100%.
Everyone liked "Call me Maybe" , but it has been over for quite awhile here.
Yet we have great fun singing all this fun pop music ( I like it too ) in the car together.
She is terribly fixated on how she looks. I find it very difficult when people here constantly comment on how beautiful, stunning and gorgeous she is. I dislike it even more when they say it in front of Anna like she's invisable.
I always say she's cute but she's very smart too.
She plays the flute and understands how to read music. She speaks two languages.
If Annabella is with me I always say and "not only is Anna beautiful too but she is reading and she just turned 5".I always tell her, M that pretty only goes so far in thiss world, so you better study very hard because people like smart people better. I know it's blunt but I need to battle this Bimbo thing that she seems to so love.
Most of the little girls here are not like this. Perhaps it's that they are the children of Professors, Doctors and Math Geeks.
The atmosphere is just different. The I can't, I'm shy thing she does when asked to do something other then what is in her comfort zone makes me crazy. Suck it up and do it girl!
... I didn't grow up with this either... nor did you.
I am Mimi hear me roar
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