The New Morality
What a curious morality music video shows on TV convey to my teenage daughter.
Many of the young female divas (like Mariah Carey) are astonishingly brazen in their highly cynical use of explicit sexuality to sell their CDs. They are basically offering up soft porn—wearing lingerie, touching their breasts and thighs with their hands as they ‘dance’, embracing attractive men in ways that, to this old fuddy duddy at least, look remarkably like televised foreplay.
I guess this is not a surprise really. It is so absurd that even non-Christians are questioning the message we convey to our young girls (see this article).
And yet, in a remarkable twist of moral uprightness, at the end of a new video clip by ‘The Veronicas’, one of the artists ... how do I put this ... “gives the camera the bird”, I think is how they say it these days. That is, she makes an obscene gesture with her middle finger. The surprising thing was that they (I presume the TV station) pixellated the gesture so as to partially obscure it.
What a curious blend of moralities.