Stupid Girls

by

P!nk

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I heard and read much about the hype and (gasp!) "controversy" surrounding Pink's "Stupid Girls" but it wasn't until I watched the video on cable a few times and just listened to the lyrics that I fully grasped the meaning of what Pink was conveying here and all I have to say is leave it to a hometown girl (well, I'm from the city not the suburbs) to tell it like it is regarding how the female sex acts and is viewed nowadays.

Pink is asking women (especially teenagers who, I believe, suffer from serious esteem and image issues) why we sell ourselves short time and again? (LOVED the part where she asked where the first woman president of the US is - dancing next to 50 Cent in a rap video. Dig it!)

I loved her parodies of the crop of the empty-headed who are constantly shoved down the public' throats as being the be all and end all of femininity (Paris and her sex tapes, Nicole and her skeletal-chic look, Jessica the dignified doing a glorified striptease - all bubbled up - on top of a car, Lindsay and her {former} emaciated self, etc).

I don't believe the aforementioned are bad people but I would love to know why they sell themselves short by acting like glorified prostitutes (for that easy million or two)? They make the money and it's average teenagers across this country who get stuck having to live up to unreal images time and again (such requirements never apply to males of any age group, though). And all that nonsense about that "that's what the people want" or that "sex sells" got *real* tiresome ages ago.

I'm not into current music but Pink's "Stupid Girls" was a (pleasant) exception for me. It's a very poignant message. - Donna Di Giacomo