Is it time for us to take some Kate Middleton and turn her into an easy-to-swallow pill so we can give every girl on earth a dose of much needed ‘class’?
Should we make a ‘Kate Pill’ obligatory for all newborn girls? Would we have avoided all the boob/bum/almost-vagina-but-not-quite Instagram photos of Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian if they’d been given a Kate-branded ‘anti-slut’ antidote at birth?
An opinion piece by Miranda Devine in Saturday’s Daily Telegraph referred to Duchess Kate as the ‘anti-slut’ – the ultimate antidote to the current crop of celebrity female exhibitionists.
Actually, here’s Miranda in her own words:
“Kate’s grace and elegance is a welcome change from the desperate self-loathing exhibitionism of most celebrity females of her generation.
Kate is the anti-slut, the antidote to everything wrong with Western culture. She has put class back into sexy, made modesty cool, and added cachet to marriage and motherhood. No wonder she has become a role model to a generation of young women, despite scornful feminists.”
Miranda Devine isn’t the only one looking for a pop culture alternative to… what’s the opposite of an ‘anti-slut’? A mega-slut?
Dave Grohl (of the Foo Fighters and Nirvana) recently told Rolling Stone that he was relieved when he first discovered 17-year-old singer Lorde, as she was a healthy alternative to all the other “stripper pop” that his two daughters listen to.
Clearly, a lot of people (and in particular, parents) are looking for a less overtly sexual role model for young women and girls. And fair enough – with Miley and Kim and Katy and Rihanna and Gaga all seemingly trading on their sexuality above all else, it can feel like the pop cultural world has been completely co-opted by tits and arse. You can’t blame women for wanting an alternative role model when not wearing pants appears to have become the norm. For example:
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I am not really sure how/why she is a role model. All she's done is marry her boyfriend and had a child.
Women do that everyday.
I don't think either of them are very good role models but if I had to choose between the two I'd go for Kate. I'd much rather my daughter (if I had one...lets go with my little sister she's always been like a daughter to me) dress modestly and be polite than be well Miley (nearly always less than half dressed, rude, sticking her tongue out randomly, humping teddy bears...). Though I wouldn't be too keen on her letting herself be pushed around or having to constantly walk on eggshells either (especially if one wrong step could get her "accidentally" killed.) Maybe a role model somewhere in between the two (but a little more on the Kate side of the line...just a little)