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N THE EVENT THAT I do produce my own offspring, and any number of them happen to be female, I will have to sequester them from the outside, media-obsessed, "flaunt-it-if-you-got-it" mentality of the "women" of today who presently serve as role models to our young girls. Gone are the days of the empowered, intelligent, fighting-to-NOT-be-objectified, professionally-minded, demanding to be respected women of yesteryear, their struggles to be presented and accepted as equals in smarts, strength, and character, seemingly long forgotten.

In the 70s, 80s and 90s, America's young women--really, all youth--had female role models of mental and emotional maturity to look up, to respect, to admire, and to aspire to. Conversely, in this, the new millenium, 16-year old girls are only too grateful to have their daddies pay Paris Hilton up to $15,000 to have Miss Hilton appear at their daughters' sweet 16 party. Young women used to sing about "roaring" to be "heard"; now they boast about their "hips" and "humps". They used to fight--metaphorically--for equal rights, equal standing, equal treatment, and equal pay; now they fight--literally--for the attentions of an overaged, former rap star/jester named Flava Flav!