Originally Posted by VeggieLover

I understand you Ms_Laliness....to a very limited degree. Sometimes its kind of a relief to be mindless -- to give in to what's easy and brainless and dirty. easy IS popular, and though I too consider myself rather 'alternative' i don't think relaxing into "pop" every once in a while makes me a hypocrite.

But the second you try and justify the degrading of woman's image with FEMINISM, you loose me. Respect has to be EARNED, it isn't given, and it can be lost. Respect is EARNED whether you are male, female, black, white, yellow, red, purple, green whatever. Feminism in its true sense (granted, i know very little about third wave "feminism") is a quest to equalize the genders, not to exempt women from the neccessity of acting respectably in order to gain respect.

Go ahead, get practically naked on stage, wear ridiculous costumes and bathe in the limelight, but do it at the cost of legitimate respect, at least from me. As it has been mentioned, talent and hardwork will get you my respect. There is a difference between using what you have and exploiting yourself.