Expendable income.
Giving your kids whatever they want.
One of the benefits to the use of contraception in limiting the size of one’s family, seems to be insuring that there is enough expendable income for luxury items, fashion and entertainment - among other self indulgences modern life offers.
This thought occurred to me after I heard about the recent Hannah Montana concert in the Twin Cities. This pop star appeals to pre-teen, tween girls. Hannah Montana is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, and is a manufactured act. Packaged and marketed by Disney to appeal to little girls who are too young to realize they are being manipulated and formed by media. (Molded into little Stepford girls.)
What happened.
When the concert tickets went on sale, the bulk of the tickets were bought up by ticket brokers, who in turn offered $30 tickets for sale at inflated prices - $100 per ticket up to $2,000 for 4 tickets. Parents paid the price for their little darlings to go and rock out with their teen idol. Several parents made the pilgrimage from out of State, as far away as Canada and Chicago. Some of the girls appeared to be only four or five years old. Maybe I’m old, but there seems to be something almost obscene about the whole phenomenon.
Many of the girls went to a mall for ‘makeovers’ before the event. Little girls with make-up and hi-lighted hair, indulged like royal princesses. Obviously most of the girls are from affluent families, or households wherein most purchases are made with plastic. Whatever their level of income, this is one example of how many parents dispose of their expendable income - without depriving themselves of their own superfluous expenditures.
No wonder when little girls are treated like little adults, school boards feel the need to offer birth control to 11 year olds, and molestor teachers find themselves attracted to already-been-sexualized pre-teens.
Those little darlings!
[Photo: Hannah Montana.]
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Never heard of her.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Good post. My 11 year old daughter and I actually went to the concert last night with another friend and her mom. The mom had gotten face value tickets, so we didn’t pay those ridiculous prices. Target Center was jam packed with girls of all ages-I saw 2 yr olds up to 15-16 yr olds. Yes, lots of dressing up like little Hannah Montanas with colored hair, mini-skirts and worse. Even some of the moms were decked out in glittering halter and tube tops. It was sickening to say the least. My daughter enjoyed the concert with her binoculars in the nosebleed section and had fun, but we didn’t buy any t-shirts($30-40.00) or souvenirs like most of the girls were doing. No way was that concert worth any more than the $30.00 we paid. My biggest regret is that I didn’t bring earplugs to drown out the nonstop screaming!
October 24th, 2007 at 7:56 am
I love Hannah Montana!!! Hurrah for moral decadence!