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December 12, 2007

Wal-Mart Panty Scandal Just More Dehumanization

It seems lately that a lot of powerful money-grubbing people are flat-out determined to turn people into pigs by debasing us through encouragement of indecency, crudeness, disrespect for life, and rudeness. Often these efforts are targeted directly at impressionable young people. Just a few examples that immediately come to mind are the disgusting show "Drawn Together," the old reality show "Fear Factor" and its obsession with forcing people to consume the most foul items imaginable so we could all watch them try not to vomit, the media's incessant wallowing in the debasing behavior and rehab stints of the music industry's "pop tarts," and video games in which players can use drugs, pick up on hookers, and graphically, brutally murder at will.

Apparently, Wal-Mart has decided to join in on the dehumanizing fun by selling girls' panties in junior sizes that carry a message implying they don't need money because they've got something else that will get them whatever they want. The front of the panties reads "Who needs credit cards" and the back says "when you have Santa." I think they'd be funny and cute for women - after all, we're mature enough to get the joke without adopting it as a personal mantra. But little girls? Must we really feed them this message?

Humans are much more than animals driven by physical urges. I, for one, am totally fed up with elitists trying to tell our kids otherwise.

Posted by Becky at December 12, 2007 02:13 PM