Bigfork Eagle Editorial

Sugar, spice and everything sexy

It is not easy being an intelligent woman in this day and age. It seems that society wants to dummy women down, put them into a cute little box with a pink bow and shove them into some quiet corner to be admired, but not taken seriously. Example: Paris Hilton. Now you have corporations pulling their sponsorship from Junior Miss. Why? The girls aren't sexy enough. Not enough skin showing, and they also have to be *GASP* smart.

Free thinking young women, now what would this world come to? Maybe world peace. Maybe economic stability for all nations. Maybe one-woman armies would be marching all over the globe promoting equality. Now that just wouldn't do at all, would it?

Instead we have countless magazines all telling young girls how to dress like little whores—promoting thong underwear adorned with cartoon cherries. Television and movies are giving young women all the advice on sex that their parents won't. Ever seen the movie "Thirteen?" Summation: 13-year-old girl meets bad girl, gets tongue pierced, becomes a cutter, performs oral sex, becomes an alcoholic, does a variety of drugs and ends up nearly killing herself. Now there is something that corporate sponsors can really get behind.

Where, oh where, are the Gloria Steinems of this desperate generation? Vicky Creamer. She believed that young girls in Bigfork could be smart, pretty, graceful, athletic and motivated. Junior Miss in Bigfork has awarded bright teenage girls with money for college. Those girls could go on to state and earn more money for school Then they could compete at the national level for even more well-earned cash. But that just isn't good television, now is it? Nope. Instead we are stuck watching Paris Hilton try to milk a cow. What a sad world.