Sunday, April 13, 2008
A good role model?
As I was thinking about my last post of the nice normal image Ashley Olsen portrays and the lack of gossip about her in tabloids, it got me to thinking about celebrities as role models. People harp on young women celebrities (example Mylie Cyrus) about being good role models for young girls, but is it really their job to be our role models? Who really is Ashley Olsen? We don't know her, her values, what she really does in her spare time, but young girls look up to her. She owns a multi million dollar company, has her own fashion line, wrote a book, and she is only 21 years old. But should these celebrities really feel they need to keep a clean slate so they can be a good role model for a bunch of tweens? Now that Ashley's target audience isn't 12 year old girls, but perhaps a more mature crowd, do you think she will keep her good girl image?
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When you wrote about whether or not it is actually the celebrity’s responsibility to be a good role model, it got me thinking.
I think that because children (their primary audiences) are so impressionable and the media makes every young celebrity so overexposed I think it should be their responsibility to be role models simply because children will definitely copy them. At the same time that's not really fair to the celebrities to have to change their lives around because children don't have role models at home (a separate issue). But I guess that's why they get paid the big bucks.
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