Stupid Spoiled Whore

I'm a big South Park fan. Has anyone ever seen that episode "Stupid Spoiled Whore"? It's an episode where Paris Hilton visits South Park for the grand opening of her store Stupid Spoiled Whore where little girls can buy things such as thongs, the stupid spoiled whore video play-set, and Paris's new perfume, "Skanque." The female fourth graders of South Park learn that they need to party every night with a lot of different guys. They even throw a stupid spoiled whore party where bikinis and tube tops and 7 minutes in heaven are the main events.

I realize that South Park may be a little bit more dramatic than real life. But it does remind me of real life. Every day I see younger and younger girls dressing more like whores. I'm all for a pair of heels and daisy dukes. I really am. But not before you hit puberty. Girls have bad roles models; it's true. When I was little I wanted to be Britney Spears. And we all see how that turned out. Thank God I did not grow up to be Britney Spears. There's a point in the South Park episode where Wendy asks her friends why they want to be like Paris Hilton. They say, "it's not just Paris: Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Tara Reid, they're all stupid spoiled whores!!" If little girls are still idolizing Britney Spears... In 2011... There is something seriously wrong with society. I thought it was bad when I like her during her "Hit Me Baby One More Time" phase in 1999. In 2011, things have changed. Things need to change again. I blame the parents. Also in this specific South Park episode, Wendy says "Mom, Dad, I'm growing concerned about the role models young women have in today's society. It seems that lewdness and shallowness are being exalted, while intellectualism is looked down upon. I think young women are being marketed to by corrupt, moral-less corporations." Never have smarter words come from a 4th grader. Not until Wendy threatened her father with buying a thong did he start to care about the store. Because it's South Park, it's more dramatized than in real life. But it really is frighteningly realistic. I used to be a nanny, and I remember the first time one of my kids... “Grew up.” Oh... the shame. She was so young and innocent. I remember reading her bedtime stories and watching the premiere of High School Musical for the first time on the Disney channel. How times have changed. Maybe it's just me being an old fart, remembering the good old days and wishing they were little and innocent forever. But I can see how society is changing. It wasn't that long ago that I was in middle school. Today's middle schoolers are much different from how I was. It's a shame how some things take a turn for the worst, and how many of today’s little girls are acting like stupid spoiled whores.

Jackie