This halloween costume is very confusing to me. http://bit.ly/bCumYD
Why would this costume ever be acceptable as appropriate for a little girl? This is not okay. Eight-year-old girls should not be begging their mothers to please, please buy them this belly-baring costume so they too can look like Hannah Montana or Lady Gaga, or Britney Spears (at one point or another). What’s with our obsession with trashy, dirty, slutty celebrities? We just love seeing them fall down from their pedestals, their images tainted with mugshots or insulting slurs forever. As Patrick Star of Spongebob fame says, we should just take Ke$ha and put her in a bath (http://bit.ly/cDpvLX). With her mussed up hair and raccoon-style makeup, Ke$ha is just one of many examples of how America’s young adult role models have turned into gross, slimy druggies rather than the sophisticated and demure role models of yesteryear. Sure, some of us might brush off these celebrities as simply idiots who put themselves out there so the public has people to rag on, but do we truly realize the effect that these stars are having on us?
Back in the day, teens had Grace Kelly and Princess Diana, but now we are forced to sit back and watch the likes of Lindsay Lohan’s jail adventures and Miley Cyrus’s revealing stage outfits. Is our generation just not educated enough to value well-meaning, ethical, usually sober role models? Every day, whether it be on the internet or TV, young, impressionable girls see these types of women galavanting around and basically being praised for the level of entertainment they are giving Americans. Girls are expected to look up to them simply because they have fame and fortune, and shouldn’t every girl aspire to be as rich as Hannah Montana? When parents flip the channel to E! News to tune into the latest Kardashian scandal, they don’t realize the effect they may be having on their children. These “hot messes” are not something that girls should aspire to; regardless of how much money they may make from magazine interviews where they admit their battles with alcoholism or showing up at every LA club in the span of three nights, you can’t put a price on self-worth.