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Daddy Issues

God bless Jennifer Moses (via Partial Objects), for pondering two important existential questions: "What teenage girl doesn't want to be attractive, sought-after and popular? And what mom doesn't want to help that cause?" In the pale-turquoise ladies' room, they congregate in front of the mirror, re-applying mascara and lip gloss, brushing their hair, straightening panty hose and gossiping: This one is "skanky," that one is "really cute," and so forth. Dressed in minidresses, perilously high heels, and glittery, dangling earrings, their eyes heavily shadowed in black-pearl and jade, they look like a flock of tropical birds. A few minutes later, they return to the dance floor, where they shake everything they've got under the party lights. Raised in an environment without an alpha male patriarch, they will have - as the old women say - daddy issues...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).