Letters to the Editor
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ask yourself...
I completely agree that all this media attention is about one thing - trying to make young women feel bad about their sexuality in order to control them.
As far as 'Tennis Hos' parties go, this is yet another example of making a big deal out of nothing. I like to think of myself as an intellegent young woman. I read the salon, I went to a 'good' college, and I count myself as someone who believes very strongly in women's rights. I also, while attending said 'good college' sometimes went to theme dances an parties in very short skirts. The shortness of my skirt did not correlate with a shortness of brains. Sometimes at said parties I would meet an attractive young man and we might end up 'making out' or, god forbid, having (protected) sex! My god, I MUST BE A WHORE. Or so these hand wringing, head shaking articles would have us believe.
You say you're worried about your young daughter in this climate, but I would hope that by the time your daughter is 20 (college-aged) you would trust her enough to make her own choices and not be shocked an appalled if she occassionally has sex outside the socially accepted confines of a 'serious relationship'.
I also wonder what the people who are wringing their hands in dispair got up to in college themselves. Are we to believe that our parents NEVER EVER got drunk? That they NEVER EVER had sex with people they maybe had just met? That they NEVER EVER wore short skirts, or attended costume parties? Because I find the whole 'girls gone wild' debate a hypocritical media-inspired frenzy designed to take pot-shots at the young women in Gen X & Y.
I am not going to apologise for my sexual freedom to my parents' generation. I'm sorry that if when they went out and had a few drinks and a good time they felt shame and guilt. I don't believe I should.
These 'girls' gone wild aren't girls at all. They aren't prepubecent teens that need 'protecting'. They are ADULTS, and as such, should be able to dress how they want and sleep with who they chose, and if the MS media have a problem with it, maybe they should take a good hard look at their own messed-up mixed messages.