Replies to '03/14 Dr. Phil Now: Fly Girls'

Quote From: mdgraham

I believe we are living in a girls gone-wild culture.  From the fallen girlie-celebrities in the tabloids to the girls who post drunken pictures of themselves on their MySpace pages, we are beseiged by scores of young women so hungry for attention it is damaging the culture and making it very difficult to raise our daughters.  I am female and I could not believe I would agree with Mr. Simmons (formerly of the rock group KISS) who was on your show earlier this week about paparazzi laws in California when he said that women are largely to blame for the commercial peddaling of gossip and bad behavior of the kind provided in the tabloid media at supermarket checkouts were most women like to browse.  I believe these young women nursing their public beef with Southwest Airlines are part of a growing band wagon of selfish, spoiled young women longing for their 15 minutesof fame in that every same tabloid media.  Already one of the young women from the SW Airlines dispute got an offer from Playboy to do a spread.  The two other young women on your show today are probably looking for similar offers.  They were not being forthcoming with Dr. Phil at all (I can tell, and I'm not even a psychiatrist).  On a personal note, I remember taking a fight to California from Florida (before 911).  It was a morning flight on which beverages such as tea, coffee, orange juice or sodas would normally be served.  Some young women on the flight sitting a couple of rows behind me were acting rowdy from the moment they boarded.  They became irate when they ordered alcholic beverages and were told they would not be served alcohol.   I believe the young women were already drunk.  Had it been post-911, I believe these young women would have been escorted off the plane the way things are done today.  As it was, the passengers had to put up wth their rudeness until the plane'snext stop.  This bad-girl culture needs to be seen for what it is before more up and coming young women buy into the illusion that it's OK.  It's not OK.   Young women need to be level headed and intelligent to protect themselves.  As the nightly news will tell us often, young women are so vulnerable, they are more likely to be the victims of violence or those who go missing from after-hours bars and nightclubs.  Get real, girls.  15 minutes of fame is not worth all this hassle.