As of first quarter of 2012, the main role models for young female teenagers are singers, actresses and wooden puppets from fake reality shows like The Only way is Essex. Fathers are out of the top ten. Mothers are slightly higher, but nowhere near Rihanna. Less than a quarter interviewed thinks that a successful businesswoman is a person to look up to.
So, the biggest aspiration for the next generation seems to be dressing in sparkly, pretty, expensive clothes, landing a wealthy boyfriend or husband or manager and spending your empty lives growing more and more bitter as talent is one of these things you can't buy and having children out of boredom.
It's like the last century and a half never happened.
All the independent, hard working, self sufficient women are once again invisible, covered with an avalanche of telly- and pop- and cyber-drivel that managed to convince girls that there's nothing like being glamorous, beautiful, photographed, groomed and vacuous. Bring back the corsets and coming out of age balls!
Well done, guys, you Simon Cowells and Hollywood producers and television executives, smirking down from what ten years ago looked like last bastions of male supremacy, where guys still earned more than woman and climbed higher in the food chain, with ambitious woman constantly snapping at your heels. Well done, you now managed to successfully promote 1800s mentality to scores of easily influenced girls.
Are we now facing another century and a half of going back to equality of thinking?
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