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...fairy tales, not fending off wolves. The fear, among parents and professionals alike, is that young girls who look like teenagers will be under intense pressure to act like teenagers. Childhood is short enough as it is, with kids bombarded from every direction by sexually explicit movies, rock lyrics, MTV videos and racy fashions. If young girls' bodies push them into adulthood before their hearts and minds are ready, what will be forever lost...
Moreover, says MTV's Pinsky, early development feeds into what's already one of the toughest aspects of being a young person in the U.S. today. "Kids don't feel good about themselves," he says. "There's a pandemic of that. Society says, 'Here's how you feel good: get lots of money, look like Britney Spears, have sex, do drugs, do extreme sports.' And it works--in the moment." Eventually, though, the high wears off, and, he says, kids' self-esteem is lower than ever...
Then there are those who believe the sexualized messages bombarding kids from all sides could be triggering changes in the brain that are jump-starting development. Drew Pinsky, a physician and co-host of MTV's recently canceled Loveline advice program, is a proponent of this notion. "MTV," he asserts, "is absolutely one of the factors in early puberty." But even though the idea sounds nutty, says Herman-Giddens, "it would not be scientific to dismiss it. If someone cuts a nice juicy grapefruit in front of you, you salivate. Seeing things can affect us physiologically...
...Dogs Out (the title of the album as well as the single) has sprinted up the charts and into the Top 10 faster than Marion Jones. A fixture on MTV and Nickelodeon, the tune has excited kids, annoyed parents and scored in the major leagues; it was chanted by thousands of Mets fans when their team clinched the National League championship last week. The song and the group have stoked thoughts of an island-music resurgence to match the influence of Harry Belafonte in the '50s and Bob Marley...
...here to relieve your guilt. If you are a normal, taxpaying American, you will not vote. And everyone wants to make you feel bad about it. MTV may not have a problem with misogyny, gay bashing or pouring champagne on the chests of bikinied women in the name of high-volume pimping, but it draws its line in the moral desert at staying home on Election Day. I've noticed, however, that it has quieted down on the whole Rock the Vote thing ever since Jesse Camp won the Wannabe a VJ poll...