Reflection on the Brit Pack

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16961761/site/newsweek/

That is the link, have a look.

And now, the article...

I would say it is a generation’s worry, passed down through the ages. Every generation seems to have the same grudge against new age popular culture of the young.
I wouldn’t dare suggest that the worries were unpleasant and incessant, quite the contrary. I am very glad and comforted that members of the older generation feel inclined to dedicate time from their live to talk about us.
But, after all, bad girls ‘tainting’ young, innocent girls is certainly no new worry, perhaps, even one which stretches way back to the start of the century.
For the record, bad girls like Betty Page, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Madonna were hardly turn of the millennium phenomena.
But again, the challenges of keeping young women from ‘oversexed and underdressed celebrities’ grow harder with the progressing technology. The media increases the exposure children have to these sexy images and videos. Even music contains lewd messages to youths. In the earlier days, it was just magazines and the occasional movie, like Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct.
Now, there is television, youtube, music, movies and cable. And of course, half-time shows at college football games.
And again, it is now fashionable to have idols again. Young children grow to know and love characters who star in kiddy shows, like teenage star Lindsay Lohan, who starred in the Parent Trap, Teenage Drama Queen and Herbie Fully Loaded.
They are said to be bad for girls to have such a questionable idol to look up to. At least, not one who drink drives on a regular basis, go on rehabilitation ever so often and parties late into the night to be late for work the next morning.
It would not be too plausible, as the article says, to place the responsibilities of setting a example for every girl who watches Disney on the young shoulders of 21 year-old Lindsay Lohan. What can you do? Ban Lindsay from doing Disney movies because it would make her an idol to the kids? Surely not.
I would admit this is a cause for some concern.
However, it is a major misconception that the ‘Brit Pack’, as the article named them, is a very popular part of popular culture. I cannot say for girls (for whom the article unfortunately was) but from my correspondence with my male clique of friends, Paris Hilton is not taken very seriously, and certainly is not considered a popular music artiste (despite her first album being released recently). One friend recently summed it up quite effectively: “ Paris Hilton is dumb.”
As part of the progress of society, I feel it is inevitable that a general liberalization would occur. One would not expect a puritan standard of morality to persist in modern day society.
I am not advocating sex in the media, I am just saying it is an inevitable thing in the fast maturity of the nation.
Just, hopefully the maturity of the individual person can match that rapid pace.

This is my fourth article.