Jennifer Moses is conflicted.
All of which brings me to a question: Why do so many of us not only permit our teenage daughters to dress like this—like prostitutes, if we’re being honest with ourselves—but pay for them to do it with our AmEx cards?
Gee, I don’t know, Jennifer. Why are you okay with calling young girls – who you admit to dressing – prostitutes?
Her theory on this is priceless…
I have a different theory. It has to do with how conflicted my own generation of women is about our own past, when many of us behaved in ways that we now regret. A woman I know, with two mature daughters, said, “If I could do it again, I wouldn’t even have slept with my own husband before marriage. Sex is the most powerful thing there is, and our generation, what did we know?”
Ah… the old sex equals power argument. Also, could someone explain to me how teenage girl fashion equals good time girl? Oh wait, Jennifer can!
We are the first moms in history to have grown up with widely available birth control, the first who didn’t have to worry about getting knocked up. We were also the first not only to be free of old-fashioned fears about our reputations but actually pressured by our peers and the wider culture to find our true womanhood in the bedroom. Not all of us are former good-time girls now drowning in regret—I know women of my generation who waited until marriage—but that’s certainly the norm among my peers.
Take a look at that last sentence: Not all of us are former good-time girls now drowning in regret—I know women of my generation who waited until marriage—but that’s certainly the norm among my peers. Congratulations, Jennifer! Not only did you trot out the sex equals power argument, but you added the Madonna/whore example. Is she really saying that women who waited for marriage are the only women she knows without regrets? Apparently so…
Still, in my own circle of girlfriends, the desire to push back is strong. I don’t know one of them who doesn’t have feelings of lingering discomfort regarding her own sexual past. And not one woman I’ve ever asked about the subject has said that she wishes she’d “experimented” more.
Sex equals power? Check.
Madonna/whore? Check.
If you’re a woman then sex makes you feel guilty and have regrets? Check.
Jennifer needs a wider circle of friends, preferably ones with brains. She could also use a spine since she is the one paying for her daughter to dress in a way she supposedly disapproves. Which doesnt say much for her parenting skills.
When I read through the article the first time my first thought was… Where are the boys? And then I read the comments, written mostly by men. If you’re looking for a problem with society, look no further than the comment section on this article.
Ever since the “Sexual Revolution” and contraception, female fashion has become synonymous with “prostitute fashion.” When are we going to stop being so barbaric? Women should inspire men to do great things, especially in how women dress, honor their beauty, and not profane it; above all, women must inspire men to be real men and quit appealing to men’s primitive urges.
Yep, it’s the woman’s job to civilize men, and if they don’t “inspire men to do great things” then, well… they were asking for it?
If you dress your daughters up like little tramps, don’t be surprised when boys treat them like tramps. Most boys are looking for one thing, and it’s a lot easier to find when it’s standing right in front of you painted up and half naked. Of course when those two tango, and they will, mom will be quick to blame the boy for being a predator!
I’m beginning to sense a “she’s asking for it” theme.
And let’s stop for one second in this brutally feminized culture to imagine what this does to healthy hetero boys, who already reflexively think about sex once ever five minutes, who are supposed to be thinking about math and geometry, but who simply can’t take their eyes off the shape of those legs and those swelling bosoms.
Is this the reason America has fallen behind in math and science?
Im 23 and you have to be extremely careful. You could think a girl is cute walk up to her and find out shes 13 not 18. Fix your daughters I refuse to marry and provide for a used up sl*t with 3 kids who then will divorce me in 2 years, stealing 1/2 my net worth in the process, because shes ‘unhappy’.
Wouldn’t you just love to be the woman who married this guy?
And if you think I cherry-picked the worst comments, go read for yourself. Seriously, go read the comments.
Jennifer Moses wrote an article that told the world that she’s a bad parent – and it has nothing to do with what her daughter wears. In fact, the entire article had nothing to do with teenage girl fashion. It had to do with Ms. Moses being too weak to stand up to peer pressure and her daughter. I guess if other parents were buying their kids drugs, Jennifer would buy her child drugs, and then… feel badly?