Costless for Some, Not For Others

It turns out that Jonah Goldberg is bothered by some of the same phenomena that I discuss in my book, "Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!)," due out on November 2.

Discussing Madonna (as I have here and here), Goldberg points out what I have observed before about a lot of bad celebrity behavior: That it's largely costless to the people who begin a social "trend" (like having babies out of wedlock or acting like brain-dead sex kittens) -- but deeply pernicious for the regular people who begin to imitate them.