You Don't Have To Try

[darklotus1211]

I know that in the scheme of things, this isn't earthshatteringly shocking or thought provoking, but great oaks from little acorns grow. I really like this song and video and I hope lots of girls and women see it and it changes their perspective a bit.

Colbie Caillat - Try

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[darklotus1211]

I know what you mean. It baffles me, too, but there's so much of that sort of thing out there now, isn't there?

As to Miley Cyrus, I think she's as much a victim of overt sexualisation as most young girls and women - I just hope she stops trying to prove she's all grown up soon and actually grow up - that's pretty much all that's wrong with her at the moment.

We all go through that stage, but we don't all do it in the public eye, while being groomed by publicists and record companies and egged on by media. She'll get there in the end or she'll crash and burn.

I agree she's anything but a great role model at the moment, but, hopefully once she gets a bit older, she'll use it as a cautionary tale.

I think that it's that young girls get inundated by so much media carrying that message nowadays from such a young age that, as kids do, they just accept that it's the norm.

There's always been pressure on girls to conform to certain roles, standards of 'beauty' and that it's more important to know what will make you attractive than to please yourself and actually look to expanding your experiences and thus become a more rounded person,, but it really does sadden and worry me that it's now no big deal to many people that the generic terms for women are bitches and that dreaded garden implement, the 'ho', especially in hip hop culture. It's jumped from very low, course speech to much more common usage and once again places women in a place in society that isn't good. It does colour perception, like it or not.

Words not only allow you to express thought, they can also shape how you think. Language is a two way street in that respect.