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| Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| Best investment an 18-year-old woman can make? |
If you ask Kendra of the reality TV show The Girls Next Door who earned the money she'd saved up by working as a dental assistant and at Papa John's pizza, what she did with her savings as soon as she turned eighteen: "I wanted to do something with the money," Kendra explains on a drizzly January day when we talk in the mansion's baronial study, where two bronze greyhounds stand guard by the fireplace. "Hmm, I thought, I'll get boobs. If I didn't get them, I wouldn't be here. They were my best investment." It was quotes like this one that caught my eye when flipping through a copy of Elle Magazine at the checkout line.
I found the article online: I DREAM OF HOLLY (AND BRIDGET, AND KENDRA) (warning, it is long) and found the story both fascinating and revolting. The show is about three barbie-like women who's job is being Hugh Heffner's girlfriend. They spend their days planning parties, dressing up, and generally being pretty and entertaining for their 80-year-old sugar daddy. The women are all adults (ages ranging from 21 - 33) and if this is how they have decided to live, fine. What is startling to me is the show is GAINING POPULARITY and the core audience is 18-to-34-year-old females. Yup, not teenage boys - but women!
The article takes a stab at trying to figure out why this is the case, and definitely worth a read. While the entertainment value is high, please don't take any financial advise from the girls next door. |
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I am ashamed to admit that I have watched the show. While I found it pretty annoying, I can see the pull. It's what young women hope for...how many women send pictures to Playboy?
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How can women gain respect when they only try to "cater" to men? Is this the kind of message we should be promoting? Your only worth is being a sex object?
Sorry but until we unite and be proud of our natural bodies and not try to live up to a fantasy we will loose ground on being equals.
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I've also watched a few times...until I'm annoyed and there's a commercial.
I think the appeal is finding out what it's like with Hugh Heffner and being a Bunny and living in a mansion. It has always seemed like a exclusive, secretive life...until now.
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I am ashamed to admit that I have watched the show. While I found it pretty annoying, I can see the pull. It's what young women hope for...how many women send pictures to Playboy?