Isle of Remote

I’m at work. No one is in the office and I have nothing to do. Our email is down for the rest of the day and I’m bored. I have some certificates I need to make, but that’s about it. I just finished the project I thought would take me the better part of the day.

I’ve been going out to dinner a lot and it’s showing on my hips. Yikes! Gotta lose those pounds! I bought a pilates video but now my DVD player isn’t working - I think it’s hooked up wrong - so I’ve just been doing some stretches.

I’m becoming obsessed with my looks. Doing battle against the ravages of time and not winning. It’s enough to make a girl cry. I don’t know why this means so much to me, trying to appear younger, but it does. I have a plastic surgery list, for Pete’s sake!

Will I turn into one of those women who walks around in mini skirts and crop tops because she thinks it makes her look younger? *shiver* I hope not! Nothing worse than a 50 year old woman showing off her belly button piercing - even if she’s cut.

And why does every teenage girl want to look like Paris Hilton? I think she’s odd looking. All her features sort of blend together in a rodent sort of way. And there’s never anything behind the eyes. Have you noticed that? And what, exactly, does she do?

Could someone tell me when did the whore get to be the idyllic role model for young girls? It seems there are a bunch of women in the public eye who are young, easy, pretty and not too bright. Where did they come from? And why have we seen most of them naked (and not in the movies!)?

What ever happened to the classy young actress? I watched a retrospective on Elizabeth Taylor last month and she had done some movies in her late teens, early twenties and she was always so reserved and put together, even at that young age. Was she really that way, or did the press have more respect then (or maybe less control?) Maybe Liz was out on the red carpet flashing her thong and we just didn’t hear about it….

Still, it makes me wonder. I saw a girl about 5 years old wearing a pair of low-rise jeans that showed her butt crack and a crop top. Who dresses their child like that? And who makes low rise jeans that low for children? Did Charlie Sheen and Roman Polanski start a clothing line together?

What are we doing to our little girls? Teaching them to be stupid and slutty? Why? So they can be famous? So they can find someone who will take care of them? So they can be burnt out and depressed before they’re 30?

I’m a full grown adult and I’m still taken in by all this about image. I want to look younger than I am. I want to do a little cosmetic maintenance to beat back time. How are these images affecting girls much younger who don’t have the filter of wisdom to make choices?

It’s something I’m thinking about a lot lately.