Spice Girls responsible for sluts, binge drinking?Today in WTF: Fay Weldon of The Daily Mail goes on a long rant about how the Spice clan are responsible for the decline of our culture.
 Forgive me for being blunt, but if a generation of our young womanhood
has taken to binge drinking, Saturday night sluttishness and
"happy-slappings", I blame the Spice Girls. Think back to those brilliant, suggestive, addictive pop songs of ten years back, when they swept across the nation's playgrounds: "Well it's a Saturday night, You know the feeling is right, Don't you know we'll get so high."
Yeah! Grope, vomit, whoops: aren't we having fun? Brilliant?! Look, I love me some Spice songs, but I have never heard anyone refer to them as 'Brilliant'. Suggestive? Are you kidding me? They have some of the most generic non-sensical lyrics ever. (Zig-a-zig-ah? Is THAT suggestive?) Addictive? Well, I'll give you that. Oh and she goes on. And on, and on, and onnnn. Includes some bits about sexual diseases and cotton mills. It all seemed so empowering at the time: the idea that girls should take charge of their own sexuality. But did anyone stop to think what would happen next? What
it did of course was to separate love from sex. The Spice Girls killed romance. So I'm embarrassed for the feminists, clinging on to the dream of a
proud, equal, serious society, where justice ruled and lasses didn't
throw away their hard-won equality in the pubs and clubs, puking up
their resentments on the shoes of paramedics trying to help them out of
the gutter. Those little girls who first listened to the Spice Girls ten
years ago are the ones who are now running up vast credit card bills on
designer shopping they can't afford. Reading this kind of makes me want to punch someone in the kneecaps, but the sickening sum of it is that she's giving the Spice Girls TOO much credit, and apparently giving NONE to the little girls of yesterday.
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HAHA.
HAHAHAHA.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh...oh, she's serious, isn't she?
Damn.
Ideas you get from smoking pot and drinking alcohol are not at all good when you are sober. Period.
Now if you'll excuse me, all of this Spice Girl talk has aroused me to the point of.... Zig-a-zig-oh-oh-OH-Ahhhhhhh
but they looked, well.. no idea... teenagers drink because it's socially acceptable too
I'm pretty sure... nope. Definitely love you for that. *flashes you in the name of feminism*
That's so ridiculous! I mean, come on!
If she had sat down and even bothered to slightly think about what she was saying, she may have realized "hey, this is senseless and completely false!"
You know, one thing about our culture is that we naturally love to the place the blame. A lot of people specifically love to blame celebrities, but I think we need to stop making excuses because [when it comes down to it] being a slut is your prerogative (so is drinking). That article was a Class A example.
I WOULD WATCH THAT MOVIE