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Mom never told me about THIS fairy
by northstar at 08:42 AM on November 09, 2002
This might fall under the rubric of "Be careful what you put under your pillows....", but I know Mama never told about this fairy when I was a kid. Of course, if she had, it probably would have fried my poor little circuits.
If you put a tooth under your pillow, and there is a quarter there when you wake up, what happens when you put a pair of panties under your pillow? Hmm?? Of course, this isn't the sort of fairy tale you'll want to be telling your children....
Along a similar vein, I don't know if anyone else has seen the cover of the November 14th issue of Rolling Stone yet. My office has a subscription, so when I walked into the lunch room a couple days ago, I happened to notice the issue, which features Christina Aguilera on the cover. The photo isn't particularly notable except for the fact the Ms. Aguilera is wearing nothing but a strategically placed guitar. Apparently, the photo shoot had a minimal clothing budget.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm no prude, and Ms. Aguilera is by all accounts a very attractive woman. That aside, is this what we want our children seeing on magazine racks? At what point is too much exactly that? Yes, sex sells, but do we need to be slapping our kids across the face with it?
I'm trying very hard not to come off as a Southern Baptist here, but I can't help wondering if we've not only crossed the line, but obliterated it along the way. When an attractive young woman is plastered on the cover of a magazine wearing nothing but a guitar, it leaves nothing to the imagination. In a craven attempt to sell magazines, Rolling Stone seems to have abdicated it's responsibility to it's readers. I'm all for pushing the edge of the envelope, but this issue belongs behind the counter in a plain brown wrapper.
comments (2)
You are dead on about that. Well, not about her being attractive, I think she has the face of a rotted chipmunk. But that cover is absolutely pornographic, and I don't want my 9 yr old son walking into 7-11 and seeing that stare him in the face.
I swear the CF fairy is real. Try putting your boxers under the pillow tonight and see if the CF fairy's sister shows up :)
by michele at November 10, 2002 7:59 AM
You forgot to mention the fact that the model in question is practically a child herself. Yes, after the Micky Mouse Club's initial incartnation, Annette DID appear in those bikini movies, which was pretty racy at the time, but she was never NAKED, or wearing one of those centerfold "*$@# me now daddy" faces, that Aguilera, Spears et all seem to have frozen on their faces more and more with each back-arching pose for pepsi or whatever. Annette might have been 'scantily dressed', but she still was the pure American girl; never letting Frankie go too far and ALWAYS keeping a cow-eyed facade of innocence. I am all for sexual openness, and teaching children that sex is a natural part of life, but in the parents own timeframe and certainly NOT in a way that denegrates the act to that of a sales pitch. What kind of a message is THAT?!
by Dr. Nohting at May 20, 2004 1:46 AM