Oldest Trick in The Book

                                             

Wad’up tweens?  Hope life has greeted you today with love and happiness!  If it didn’t, you probably didn’t expect it to.  I just want to get something off my chest today.  Young ladies, it is not necessary to dress provocatively to get what you want out of life.  It is always so disappointing to watch a new talented singer arise and fall prey to what society, the media, their managers or record companies, and sometimes their parents are telling them they have to do.  Am I the only person that remembers L’Boogie, AKA Lauren Hill?

Girls you have to remember that many of the singers you hear today aren’t all that talented.  But they get in front of you for the six months to a year that their career lasts, and parade around nearly nude, getting you to believe this is how you should dress too, if you want to be successful.  If you don’t know who Lauren Hill is the google her for further data.  Let me just say this… when true talent, gratitude, and love surrounds everything you do, the 5 or 6 Grammy’s, an Oscar, a Toney, or an Emmy will come.  Follow your souls and life will give you what you intend.

Don’t become victims of tasteless fashion, and don’t use the excuse that it’s okay as long as you’re making the decisions to dress that way yourself.  It is NOT!  That’s the oldest trick in the book.  I fell out of love with Madonna when she made the statement, “As long as I do it to myself, it’s okay.”  She was responding to a reporter who was questioning her motives of dressing so provocatively, being chained, and bare most of the time.  Slavery, or more specifically William Lynch, has taught us that the easiest way to get people to do what ever it is you want is to have them do it to themselves.  His infamous speech ends… “My plan is guaranteed, and the good thing about this plan is that if used intensely for one year, the slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful.”  

We only need change the words to women themselves will remain perpetually distasteful and dress the way lustful men would have them.  What do you think?

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L

P.S.

Check the white cotton shirt and cropped jacket, items on my Top 10 Tween Must Haves (homage to Tim Gunn) list, in the pics above;-)