About That Girls Gone Wild Ad On Late Night Television
Judy Ramsook
July 23, 2006
Back in the 80s when Cindy Lauper’s hit single, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun made it to the airwaves and stereo systems wherever it was liked, some girls’ idea of having fun was sort of naïve and not as xxx rated.
For such girls’ idea of fun could have comprised of events such as, hanging out at the mall, giggling and watching the boys go by (girl watching if you are a lesbian) catching up on the latest goings on with your friends’ love lives or bringing oneself up to date on the gossip about her peers, movie stars etc. Fast forward to the 21st century where some girls’ idea of fun has reached a new level.
One does not have to look too far to see this. Just flip through the various television channels on late night television, something most of you who are reading this have already seen.
You are certain to find this ad being aired on at least one of the channels. The advertisement in question? The Girls Gone Wild one.
From what this writer has seen on the advertisement, some young college aged girls gather at a beach resort where they engage in sexual related activities with each other. Some girls lift their shirts to display their chest (that part is censored for the television audience)
Of course the girls look happy and as if they are truly enjoying themselves, but are they really? How quickly values and times have changed. Of course there are some girls in today's society who still have fun in the ways mentioned in the second paragraph.
If the girls or young women in the Girls Gone Wild videos are indeed having fun, and they are happy doing what they are doing, that is fine, but this writer is also wondering one more thing. Are some of these girls selling themselves short?
Do some of these young women who willingly participate in the making of such videos do so because they do not respect themselves enough not to? Maybe I was brought up in a world in which a girl’s idea of having fun is less thought provoking and racy.
But girls, and young women out there, if you want to take part in having fun the Girls Gone Wild way, think respect first.
For self respect all begins with you. You have to respect yourself first if you want others to respect you.
If participating in such activity for all the world to see makes you happy, so be it, but you do not need to do that in order to gain recognition.
There are millions of other ways to gain recognition and respect without flaunting it all at such a tender age for all to see. You do not need to allow yourselves to be exploited in what some persons might consider to be a rather degrading manner.
For such girls’ idea of fun could have comprised of events such as, hanging out at the mall, giggling and watching the boys go by (girl watching if you are a lesbian) catching up on the latest goings on with your friends’ love lives or bringing oneself up to date on the gossip about her peers, movie stars etc. Fast forward to the 21st century where some girls’ idea of fun has reached a new level.
One does not have to look too far to see this. Just flip through the various television channels on late night television, something most of you who are reading this have already seen.
You are certain to find this ad being aired on at least one of the channels. The advertisement in question? The Girls Gone Wild one.
From what this writer has seen on the advertisement, some young college aged girls gather at a beach resort where they engage in sexual related activities with each other. Some girls lift their shirts to display their chest (that part is censored for the television audience)
Of course the girls look happy and as if they are truly enjoying themselves, but are they really? How quickly values and times have changed. Of course there are some girls in today's society who still have fun in the ways mentioned in the second paragraph.
If the girls or young women in the Girls Gone Wild videos are indeed having fun, and they are happy doing what they are doing, that is fine, but this writer is also wondering one more thing. Are some of these girls selling themselves short?
Do some of these young women who willingly participate in the making of such videos do so because they do not respect themselves enough not to? Maybe I was brought up in a world in which a girl’s idea of having fun is less thought provoking and racy.
But girls, and young women out there, if you want to take part in having fun the Girls Gone Wild way, think respect first.
For self respect all begins with you. You have to respect yourself first if you want others to respect you.
If participating in such activity for all the world to see makes you happy, so be it, but you do not need to do that in order to gain recognition.
There are millions of other ways to gain recognition and respect without flaunting it all at such a tender age for all to see. You do not need to allow yourselves to be exploited in what some persons might consider to be a rather degrading manner.
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