Wild teen girls: Dangerous lifestyle patterns – Part 3
Teenage girls today engage in wild, dangerous, obnoxious behavior for many reasons,
some related to their home lives and some impressed upon them by different forms of media.
Anyone born after 1980 has grown up in an age where marketing tools and strategies
have become more and more sophisticated. The use of computer databases to store massive amounts of information related to the behavior and habits of potential customers allow marketing strategists to develop very specific ad campaigns. They then market every aspect of a persons life, from birth to death. The marketing of attitude and extreme behavior has changed the way young people interact with each other and society at large.
Young girls are often portrayed in the media as tough, sassy and full of attitude. “Keeping it real.” They are also portrayed as being as sexually hungry as teen boys.
Reality shows are a frequent source of this type of portrayal. There is a show called “Exposed” on MTV where either two males or females compete for a date with a member of the opposite sex. The male or female “interviews” the potential suitors by asking them questions. The contestants microphones are connected to a voice analysis machine that speculates whether or not the person is telling the truth. The machine is monitored by a friend of the interviewer, who relays the result of the answer via an earpiece. The friend is in the back of a disguised truck located nearby.
Granted the contestants are all around 18-24 years of age. However, the show is easily accessible to teens and preteens who soak up what they see the older kids doing and mimic that behavior.
At the beginning of each episode the person who decides which contestant to date introduces themselves with a heavy dose of sexual innuendo. The women are usually scantily clad.
After that , the two contestants are introduced. They are shown meeting face to face. As the contestants approach each other they trade insults and mocking remarks. The girls generally make each other out to be sluts, make derogatory comments about their clothing or that they are unbelievably ugly.
To the young viewer this may seem to be the way cool, older kids speak to each other. Suddenly you have a “dozens” contest going on in the sixth grade lunch line.
When a young man sits the girls down for a Q & A the questions usually revolve around either gross or sexual behavior. One of the most often asked questions by the males is “Have you ever kissed or hooked up with a girl?” followed by “Did you like it?” The girls, sometimes sheepishly, sometimes boldly most often answer yes to both questions. This enforces to young women that it is expected and desired by men that they be bisexual. If a woman is attracted to women naturally, as a lesbian, then she has made that choice on her own, not as a result of peer pressure or imagined social expectations.
On another recent episode, a female is questioning two males. When she is first introduced to them she exposes her breasts to them and asks if they like what they see. They grin and mumble “Hell, yeah.” During her Q & A she asks if they consider their anatomy to be “OK” or “Oh My God.” One boldly answers that his is in the “oh my God” category and she asks if he will show her. He gladly obliges and whips his penis out in her face. She agrees, with a hungry look, that it is definitely an “Oh my God.”
This is only one of many shows, on many networks, that encourage antisocial, promiscuous and potentially risky behavior in both young men and women. While the shows don’t officially endorse these types of behavior, the impressionable minds of it’s viewers pick up on the cue.
Beauty and Women
Human nature is endowed with extraordinary ability to see, understand and appreciate beauty. Be it the beauty in art, nature or the human body. Many will agree that the concept of beauty is applicable in fashion too, in which women play an important role. People’s sense of beauty differs, which creates the plethora of styles and tastes as well as the ability to choose from it, picking out what best reflects our personality.
I often observe young girls in the street. Their outfits reveal the importance fashion plays in their lives. If this autumn short skirts are in, they’re in. We’ll see girls wearing skirts that hardly cover their bums and uncover their slender or plump legs to the judgment of the passers by. The danger of catching cold in winter is the last thing they worry about! Let alone the belly buttons and slim waists unveiled in autumn and winter, which can result in kidney and bladder diseases. This is how young girls affected by the fashion cult sacrifice their health and turn into a flock of locked up canaries, all looking the same. No sign of individuality! However, the syndrome of assimilation is not the worst.
The tall, slender teenager still rules the contemporary fashion world and the whole of the fashion industry is dedicated to her. I often read the magazine People. There’s hardly any edition without a photograph of Nicole Richie, who is the beauty ideal for many teenage girls. Again, people have different tastes. I see a sad, exhausted woman on the brink of dystrophy. This is the result of the fashion cult. In their search for perfection, often already slim women try to bring their weight even lower by going to the gym, dieting and taking respective medication. You see, you’re only charming and pretty, if you fit into size S clothes, which assures the access to the category of beautiful people, even if it comes at the price of your health.
Human body structure is determined by numerous factors such as genetic sequence, life style, diet and personality. The body changes with age too. There are many adult women of normal size. Sadly, there are a lot fewer designers who are interested in their needs. Is it true that all these women can do in a fashionable clothes shop is get disappointed. The skirt or jacket they really like is always too small. The advantage of an adult woman is that she soon realises that it is not her size that’s out of standard, but rather the sizes of the clothes. Thus, she will look for solutions at the designer shops that offer original clothes of all sizes rather than trouble themselves with diets in order to fit into size L clothes that she wore ten years ago!
I always admire girls wearing several layers of clothes with lank laps. They are often art students or simply creative personalities. It is a welcome choice, as they at least look original. Their clothes are often self-made; they are usually wearing simple, hand made but innovative accessories that could make many jewellery designers jealous. This is the phase of the creative quest for identity that helps develop a subtle style. Surely, women and girls belonging to this category do not necessarily meet the contemporary fashion standards. They are inventive, stylish and elegant people who in their own search for perfection and beauty ideal have learnt to respect their body and their confidence surpasses the often false charms of fashion.
