"Go Away Little Girl.... - song by The Lettermen

 

Thank God school is out at the end of next week.... It's been a school year of non-stop drama in DD's high school, and I'm ready for a break. Of course, due to social media, everyone still keeps tabs on each other in a way that they could not B.M. (get it? like B.C. - Before Christ - but it's B.M.- Before Media.)  A little side note on that - I didn't even know that public schools no longer use B.C. because it's way to religious to recognize Christ, so they have some new term that is so ridiculous, I've refused to remember it or use it.
But I digress...
DD's boyfriend broke up with her six months ago, but she had a very hard time with it all, for lots of reasons. Not only was he her first love, but they had (and still do) a lot of the same friends in our small town and one high school town and too, the little hussy that "stole" him, was representative of lots of high school aged girls these days. They are uber aggressive, and violently pursue the guys, and beg the guys to have sex with them. Many boys do and DD has to hear about it all day, every day. And then there are the boys who are trying very hard not to be "man hoes." There are those guys (and DD's friends are included in this group) who tell the girls upfront that they are waiting to have sex, and if they  don't like it, then they should move on.
Sound familiar any Baby Boomers out there? Because it's all backwards - it was the GIRLS who used to say that sort of thing when I was in high school. It  was all about saving your reputation back then. I've asked DD why the girls are so aggressive. She says it's the only way to get a guy, and that the girls who have boyfriends, are instantly "popular." (Ah yes, the magic word in high school.) And they will stop at nothing to achieve this status.
Too, it falls in line with what we're hearing about college and twenty-something kids, that they are having random sex in uncommitted relationships - called "hooking up." And I guess they are learning it from Hollywood movies like "friends with benefits" and current songs, like 99% of rap. Try listening to the words of ANY current rap song. Nasty. Nasty. Nasty. And they are getting worse. Even the song from last year about "blowing his whistle" sounds naive compared to what's out this year.
Did anyone see the Billboard Music Awards this week?!? It  was disgusting. I left the room, and didn't return until the last 15 minutes, when (nasty) Nicki Minaj (who I heard gave herself the name from Menage a trois) did a really foul gyrating lap dance with her gynormous butt towards the camera, and straddling Lil Wayne, the completely nasty rapper. Ugh.
We need a moratorium on ALL media...