This is Amazing

Looking in the Mirror 7/31/2002

Alright everyone, go and grab a mirror. Look into it. What do you see? You, of course! but what is your reaction? Did you scrunch up your nose, did you look away? Put the mirror down? here’s a question… did you smile?

Most girls now are so influenced by the media that they barely ever smile looking in their reflection. A size 6 person, who would normally be considered beautiful, is dieting and living on rabbit food becasue they want to be a size two.

Our world is so saturated with influences from girls like Britney Spears and Christina Aguileria. I know a four year old who is obsessed with Britney, and this disgusts me. She is five years old, and this Britney person has reached her, with her little tummy tops, belly rings and low rider jeans. She is four years old, and wants to be just like Britney.

Why can’t people see that these figures shouldn’t be in magazines or on the television at all? Look at what’s going on with Spears right now. She flashes the finger at people in Mexico, and gets booed off the stage. She’s giving the finger to a whole country… and these little girls, some no older than four, worship the ground she walks on? How are the children of our world going to turn out as? We can already see what’s happening, and if we don’t do anything about it, it’s going to get worse, and worse. Girls now are more focusing on how they look, attracting boys at the tender age of merely ten! From looking around, I’m seeing 12 year olds wearing low rider jeans, barely staying on because they have no hips to hold them up. Their little tank tops, which show off what little breasts they have, and their bellies, with some sort of metal attatched to them. One other thing, girls at this age still have their baby fat. Especially on their stomachs. So when they wear those low rider jeans and tummy tops, you can see their bellies hanging out of the shirt and over the too tight pants. Then they complain about how people call them fat, and they diet unnecessarily, getting all worked up on being super skinny. Just like Britney.

Why aren’t their more girls out there who look at their brains, who can see the difference between say, Roberta Bondar, the first woman who walked on the moon, than Britney Spears, the first singer who got a boob job at the age of seventeen?

It’s crazy how the media now has changed the attention of many girls from role models like Roberta Bondar to Britney Spears.

When I look in the mirror, yes I see braces, and yes I see a person with many flaws. But I also see a person with many beautiful things about her. I have nice light brown hair that curls naturally, I’m about average height, and everyone comments on my eyes, green with gold flecks in them. Sure, I may have some freckles where I don’t want them, but who cares? I try to learn things, let my intelligence grow, rather than put piles of makeup on my face to make myself feel better about who I am. Why will I spend all my time worrying about the little things, rather than improving on the important things? Instead of spending my after school hours cruising the mall looking for a boyfriend, I do my homework. I spend as much time as I need to on it. And girls don’t need the skimpy itty bitty clothes to attract a guy. Sure, it will attract them, a lot, but think about this… you look like that, and that’s why they’re there. So really, are you attracting the RIGHT kind of guy? Is that the kind of guy you want as your boyfriend? Only with you because your boobs in your push up bra are just about to pop right out of your shirt? No, you want a nice guy, who will love you for you. That’s the kind of boyfriend I have. Sure, he’s my first boyfriend and I’m sixteen years old. But it’s worth the wait, I love my boyfriend because he loves me for me, not what my bra size is.

So please, take an example of the many women out there who didn’t get recognized because they enlarged their breasts at the age of seventeen, and maybe even sixteen. Take the example of the women who have done something with their lives, if you can’t find someone in the media, take a teacher, a mother, or an older woman friend you have. A neighbor. An aunt. There are women out there who have brains, intelligence.

So please, ignore “role models” such as Briteny Spears, Christina Aguileria, or Jennifer Lopez. Instead, improve on what’s in your mind… not your bra.

Guess who wrote that. My lil sis Beth.