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Midriffs, mooks, what are we really?Dora Taylor, Charger Staff With all the media influence and decline of morals in this country, it is no
wonder the style of clothes has changed dramatically over the past few years.
Spring is coming and summer is starting to peep around the corner, so of course
students are beginning to get out the boxed away summer clothes and put away
the heavy sweaters. As I walk down the halls of CHS, I saw skirts and shorts
that were shorter than the career of Chumbawumba! What kind of music one listens
to can give you a glimpse into his personality, just like their style of clothes
speaks loudly about their character. First impressions can often be made purely
by the way one dresses and presents him/herself (not that I agree with judging
someone by their looks, but it happens more often than not). Did you know that MTV has a vision for the girls and guys of our generation?
For the young men their goal is to shape them into what they term as a “mook”,
which is a mix between Beavis (from one of MTV’s well known cartoon series)
and Tom Green (enough said). They want guys to stay as immature as possible
because the longer they are immature, the longer they will watch MTV and MTV
in turn makes money off of them. Their vision for young ladies is to turn them into what they term a “midriff”
which is a mix between Brittany Spears (can we hit her one more time?) and Christina
Aguilera. Their idea is that the sooner they can influence us to want to be
older than who we are, the sooner they can start making money off of us.If they
know they can influence our personality in order to make money off of us, how
much more can they influence the way we dress? We love to express ourselves through the way we dress, and that is a good thing. Most people tend to put on a facade of who they want to be, rather than who they truly are. Here is my challenge of the week. Lets go through our closet and examine our clothes. Are we “made by the media”? Do our clothes give a realistic glimpse into the true character of who we are? If people were to judge us only by appearance, what would their first impressions of us be? Let’s be a generation of integrity.
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