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I agree that much of the media sends a bad message to young women, but hasnt it always? Hasnt the message to women always been to be beautiful, enhance your looks so you can attract men, get married and be a good wife? Older shows depicted women in the subservient roles of housewife, “Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Ozzie and Harriet, I love Lucy, Bewitched, Donna Reed and All in the family. Then came shows depicting liberated and independent women, “That Girl, The Partridge Family, Alice, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, and Laverne and Shirley. The Bionic woman” Only recently have tv and movies stressed a woman’s academic achievements, careers and character, “The Closer, Crossing Jordan, Judging Amy, Ugly Betty, Hawthorne, Saving Grace, In Plain Sight”. So does life imitate art or does art imitate life?
It is a parents job to instill values and confidence in their children so they can filter out the garbage spewed by the media and advertisers as well as to control their tv viewing. Shows like SATC are not meant as role models for impressionable young teens any more than other tv shows like jackass, hangover, (as someone mentioned) the man show, etc. etc. Reasonable adults recognize entertainment for entertainment.
thank you 2mares this is my thinking on the question posed as well
you may find my term "victorian" canned or inappropriate however people who look at women with suspect of their moral value because they may have a social life or dress in the fashion of the times is pretty shallow and judgmental. the people who want to see young women as less than they should be says more about the narrow mind of the person looking at them, then it does the women.
you may find my term "victorian" canned or inappropriate however people who look at women with suspect of their moral value because they may have a social life or dress in the fashion of the times is pretty shallow and judgmental. the people who want to see young women as less than they should be says more about the narrow mind of the person looking at them, then it does the women.
It's been used in pejorative sense so often that it's practically a curse word to be 'old fashioned'. She was a heroine in her own right but not valued to the extent she should have been. Martha Stewart tried to dust off that image a bit, although I've got to say the direction she went isn't one I'd care to follow. The gentile mannerisms are the nice thing I can say. The rest is in the tabloids.
Equal justice in social sanctions and in our legal system... I see crimes of epic proportions committed by Bush let off with impunity and I see Martha Stewart in prison for being arrogant. What has changed?
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