i'm too sexy for my brain

Someone took the time to make that. Are these women sexy? Too sexy? Bleached blond hair, augmented chests and spray tans make real women. Is that the message that American society has so readily accepted?
"[Playboy] gave me a huge stack of magazines to flip through and the only variety I saw was the kind of variety you get when you look at a wall of Barbie dolls...they all look very distinctly poured from the same mold. Individuality is erased: it's not part of the formula." (Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pig) These three women are all a perfect example of different people with distinct similarities. Diversity is necessary as long as everyone has bleached blond hair and a golden tan. Eye color doesn't matter when it's surrounded by mascara, anyway.

The clips used to create this music video are all from The Girls Next Door, a television show on E!, which is one of the most popular television networks in America. E! stands for Entertainment, the entire network focuses on celebrity actions, appearances, and lifestyles. The entertainment factor is not an issue, the real issue is the message it sends to young women everywhere. The representation of American life is of materialistic, poorly educated women who are willing to conform to that in order to receive attention.


You don't think these women are good examples of what affects young women just because the show is so new? What about Madonna? Her influence stretches way back to multiple generations. "She gives us ideas. It's really women's lib, not being afraid of what guys think." -Madonna fan as quoted in Susan Bordo's essay Material Girl: The effacements of Postmodern Culture from Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Bordo continues on to explain Madonnas rapid change from doing her "own" thing to changing her appearance completely. "I didn't have a flat stomach anymore, I had become well-rounded."(Madonna speaking) She did not change of her own accord. Comfort with herself quickly changed from pride to embarrassment as Bordo states and only became positive when she broke under social pressures to be skinny and 'sexy' at 40.
Unfortunately the ultimate result of popular culture on young women today is the confusion of comfortable sexuality with commodification of the gender as a whole.