In the hoopla of recent headlines regarding Miley Cyrus, and the video of the discussion on Showbiz Tonight on CNN, the voice of reason has come out of the morass of the featured disjointed commentary.
To my amazement, the featured panelists on Showbiz Tonight presented a rare voice of reason by stating that “the adults failed…” and that 15 year-old Miley could have said “No, not yet…” to the requests of the acclaimed photographer’s request to stage the suggestive photograph.
These two women have pegged Miley’s issue and the situation of our nation. Adults not drawing the line have resulted in the sexualization of our children as well as making sex an icon of our society.
It is a crime that there was no man on the program to provide a Fatherly opinion. But we all know that Men are either religious zealots or rapists in the eyes of media and academic culture.
Do these comments of women suggest that the winds are changing since the last Disney starlet received breast implants at the age of 17?
Marketing at the allegedly wholesome Disney Corporation led the prior groomed starlets Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera down paths of indisputable degeneracy. Spears and her horrible choices (tongue kissing Madonna on MTV), and Aguilera and her naked pregnancy poses in and on the cover of a magazine that asks if she is still “Dirty.”
Miley’s predecessors have answered the question as ‘Yes, we are still dirty after we graduated from innocence at Disney to whoredom in the broader world. Just like Madonna went from ‘virgin’ image immediately to ‘slut’. Meanwhile, we in broader society have to live with being inundated by this garbage, even if we do change the channel.
Is there anything wholesome and lovely left of our humanity for our little children to inherit?
Certainly not within the confines of the media that have inundated us with this perverse culture. We have allowed our pre-teen daughters to be sold the message in teen and glamour magazines, that to be grown up is to be a slut.
We are coerced into buying clothing that results in our daughters being dressed as bawdy women in the slut fashion of the day, and at the same time we parents are expected to teach them morals by drawing the line and telling them not to act as they are dressed.
Now more than ever, society has clearly made parents up to be great hypocrites in the eyes of their children, and adults just cannot see it.
Miley’s case may give us a voice though. For women have made the point of asking the question, ” …is this an appropriate public photograph for a 15 year-old?”, as the question coming from the mouths of women might indicate that like France’s turn about against its addiction to nudes and lurid advertisement, our nation may have had enough.
It may now be time that men can ask, ‘What message is being sent to 15 year-old boys, who have been the target to the exposed teacher sex rampage in the schools, by the permissive messages of our media?’ without being called names and devalued.
We all know the pressure on the young is extreme, even without inducements and messages from the Media and the impulse loosing effects of alcohol and drugs. So then, our message as fathers and Rebuilders of Society is an important balancing act to moderate a society which, if indeed free in any capacity, will always have the loose women and philandering men, but, if it is to survive by the creation of personal affinity between the personalities of individual men and women, will never place the images of sluts on the pedestal and pillar positions as builders and centers of society.
As men, who want good, wholesome, romantic, and feminine women for our own lives, families, and sons, watch this contrived controversy unfold, what will we say to our girls about the unbridled narcissism of our culture, and the naked sexualization of children?
What will we say to our boys who are assaulted with images to make them feel inferior and undeserving?
What will we say to make some effort at having something true, good, and wholesome in our lives, and give to the world in the form of our responsible, self-controlled, accomplished, self-respecting, and mature children?
The media and the women who run the women’s and teen girl magazines are not doing the job of preserving and nurturing any true and wholesome core of our society. They are being well paid to do precisely the opposite.
Will you as a Man dare to resist the power? Will you speak up and oppose this War waged against the nature and self-seem of our children?
Misfit
