After centuries of struggle, lives lost, reputations put on the line, battle after battle for womens rights and equality, female empowerment has reached its natural peak today. Hearing primary school aged children singing a song they picked up in the school playground 'Oh my gosh, look at her butt'
Emmeline Pankhurst, Anthea Dworkin, Sojourner Truth, Germaine Greer, Millicent Fawcett, are you watching Simone de Beauvoir? Your girls took one hell of a beating.
Sadly it was from themselves.
Maybe I'm just an over-protective parent, but my daughter isn't going to find any decent role models in a pop culture dominated by women singing about their bottoms, waving them around, or both. And my son isn't going to learn anything about how to respect and value women as equals. Is it just me?
No, it's not just you. For impressionable young girls and boys, it's a case of 'monkey see, monkey do'. As long as they are bombarded by trash publicity, they run the risk of being brainwashed. Fear not, large bottoms will pass. They are as important as a pimple on a pig's bum.
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