Putting the "Pub" in Puberty

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but what the hell is the deal with all of the underage drunk girls?  Seriously?  I don't know, maybe it's the dad talking, but I'm not sure it's as cool as E! wants us to believe.

They are everywhere, and for some reason there isn't much of an outcry from our otherwise prudent society.  Sure, their antics make for great headlines and some decent side-boob shots, but the Lohans of the world aren't even old enough to get into bars- shouldn't that raise some concern?

I'm not going to pretend that I didn't partake when I was younger.  I spent many a weekend night with my friends in the Alpha Beta parking lot, standing around, listening to Guns and Roses and The Beastie Boys, waiting for the few girls that would hang out with us to pimp their goods in the face of the right horny shopper and score us twenty bucks worth of crappy beer and 2-liter bottles of wine coolers.  What else were we going to do, bowl?

We, however, were not on the national news every night, and we most definitely were not in bars.  I didn't get my fake ID until I was 20.  By the time Lindsay and friends turned twenty we had been following their clubbing lifeystyle for years. Years.

How are these ladies, and of course the hordes of hormones and cameras that follow them, getting into places that are designed by law to keep them out?  If the paparazzi was replaced by 60 Minutes the doors would be shut tight, but Andy Rooney isn't taking the bait.  Why, besides the fact that I'm pretty sure he's dead, wouldn't a respectable news guy/humorist want to expose this?  Because it's not news, and it's only slightly funny.

America loves underage drunk girls.

I must be getting old. Think I'll head down to Alpha Beta.

Comments

[Kristin]

I totally agree. I think everyone seems to just have a blind eye when it comes to celebrities.

Aside from the main topic. Yes. It's us getting old. We went to a drive-in movie last night and I actually heard myself say to my husband, "I'm glad we're at a family movie, so, you know, there won't be any punk kids around." Gasp. I used to be a punk kid. Made me want to go home and hug my old boxed-up Doc Martens.

[Tom]

My big worry isn't so much that 'America loves underage drunk girls' so much as it is that 'underage girls idolize celebrity underage girls' and if they are bombarded with images of their idols living their booze-filled, pill-popping, bulimic lifestyle...what does that tell our kids?

[Tom]

And yes, we are getting old :p

[Jason]

Nah, we're not getting old, just seeing things from a different point of view. Those hairs aren't gray either, they're silver-blond. Funny how kids and other responsibilities give the priorities a new world order. Or something like that.

[Mark]

MTV has become the how-to manual for youth behaving badly. I KNOW I sound old when I start complaining about the MTV, but dammit, they WERE different when we were kids! At least it was devil rock and roll music and gangster hip hop that our parents complained about, which has been going on for ages. You'd be hard pressed to actually FIND a music video on there nowadays, whereas you can't get around seeing some spoiled, obnoxious, self indulgent brat acting a fool if you watch for more than 5 minutes. I mean, have we really made Bam Magera a star for just running around and being an asshole?