My moment has come. Ever since I accidentally saw an episode of “The Search for the Next Doll” (a show on Much Music by the Pussycat Dolls looking for another member of their “band”) I have been waiting to be able to blog about it. Thankfully the guest speaker said something, and now my time has come!
You probably all know what I’m about to say anyways, but let me have my moment. I really need to vent.
I have a real problem with this so-called girl band. (I’ve never seen them near an instrument, you?) When I first heard them I thought, “Wow, this is a catchy tune, I could dance to this”. I simply heard the beat, I didn’t go so far as to actually listen to what they were saying. It went like this until I got a little more exposure to these advocates of female empowerment.
This is my problem. They call themselves spokeswomen for girl power and empowerment, but to me, this is the biggest joke ever! You see them come onto stage, or on their music video, and they are barely wearing any clothes, singing about wanting a man to undo their buttons. In their newest video they’re shakin’ their T&A in front of a male 8 year old’s face. Ok. This is what every girl group is like these days, so what is my problem? My problem is not that they are half naked, that they sing about needing “hot stuff” and getting their clothes taken off, because let’s face it, so does everyone else with boobs and tv exposure. My problem is that they are trying to disguise this degrading behaviour as empowerment. The reason I think this is such a problem is because our pre-teen sisters and nieces, etc. look at these images, and hear this message, and put the two together. And rightly so since the messages are being presented together. I’m half naked, this is female empowerment. So the next generation of females are growing up thinking that flaunting their bodies (which they have been socialized to think have to be unrealistically perfect) and being desensitized to sex is actually liberating.
This disturbs me. We already know how bad the media is in portraying the wrong kinds of images to both males and females. But now they are trying to associate those images with desire and independance and liberation. On one of the episodes of ”The Search for the Next Doll” (yes, I have to watch now, I’m intrigued at their naivity) the girls trying out are asked to dress in fish net tights and little leather bikinis, and dance sexually inside a glass box. They call it female empowerment. I’m sorry, but I do not think that exploiting your body in front of a bunch of men (the villians in the girl power world) is anything but degrading.
What kind of role models is the next generation being exposed to? Women who think that liberation includes being naked and singing about sex.
These women are not doing anything good for society, they are simply corrupting an entire group of females. I’d like to hear what the feminists have to say about this.
