Monday, March 10, 2008

Girl scouts

I feel as though our society is training young girls to carry their weight in looking innocent and making people want to buy a product only because of the seller. In this case it would be the little girl in the cheap skate outfit with a billion badges on it, and the best thing about this is that the cookies that the people buy are actually really disgusting. I mean some person in China probably made those cookies. when you buy girl scout cookies you honestly do it out of pity for little girls being taken advantage of because their counselor tells them they have to stand in front of a Safeway in the ghetto and essentially sell their soul for the betterment of the organization. And the problem is that as a consumer culture we will buy just to buy. We consume our money on useless things when in reality we could be helping others. That's really about helping others, but our society has programmed us to focus on ourselves and I wish I could change that. Little girls learn at a young age to look appealing in order to sell products and succeed in a consumer culture.

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