Friday, September 23, 2011

You want narcissism? She's got it for you.

The staggering thing about Jenna Rose is that she is a viral phenomenon. She can't sing, she can't dance, she can't act. What she can do is tell little girls what they want to be told about themselves. She isn't something foisted on little girls by big, evil corporations. She is something that little girls foisted on the rest of us. They picked her by making her go viral on YouTube.

You don't want to watch this but watch it anyway. Watch it right to the end so you cannot  walk away and pretend this isn't happening. The problem here is not the result of sexualizing kids, the problem here is the result of our post-feminist society telling little girls that they are morally superior beings. This is what happens when adults pretend that every stupid thing girls do is somehow really the fault of evil men or Walt Disney.

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