Carol Platt Liebau: Youth Culture

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Youth Culture

This account of the MTV Movie Awards strikes me as a sign our youth culture needs some rethinking:

[Jessica} Alba took home her own Golden Popcorn trophy for her sexy striptease performance in "Sin City."

"Thank you to all the perverts who voted for me," she said. "Thank you to the fans. I do movies for you. Practice safe sex and drive hybrids if you can."


A prize for a "sexy striptease"? Thanks to the "perverts"? And her only message is "practice safe sex" and "drive a hybrid"? How wholesome. Note that music videos (and thus MTV) are primarily targeted to youth between 12 and 19.

As I said, time for some rethinking and some rejuvenation.

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:o)

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