Is it right? I am sat here (sad old git that I am) watching the Live Earth show on TV. The Pussycat Dolls are on and, to be honest, I am more than a little disturbed. The music is far from my cup of tea but I can see how it could be enjoyed by many. What realy puzzles me is the mixed message.

Men are now, hopefuly, in the position that they no longer see women as sex objects. I must say that seeing the 'dolls' did very little for me but that could be my age rather than conditioning! I can well understand how some younger men would see them as sex objects. Their costumes would be at home on the set of any porno movie (errrrrmm, so I am told. Shuffle about looking at my shoes...) Their dance is what used to be termed the bump and grind and the lyrics are more than a little suggestive. Singing don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me while thrusting a pelvis at the audience is hardly the stuff of childrens TV!

Now, I can well imagine some hormonal youth or young man purchasing a ticket for their show just to see them. Nothing to do with the music. Just to see them 'strutting their stuff'. Yet if that same young man was to admit to this he would be told that he was being sexist by many people. Possible even me, although I would be able to understand why he was sexist. How can us poor blokes, who everyone knows think only with their trousers and are much weaker than the 'weaker sex', be expected to know what to do?

Wht can these girl groups not sing in a full eastern burka? Or better still, considering the forum we are on, an arran sweater and faded jeans?

Ladies, I know some of you will say that girls should be able to wear what they want and still not be considered sex objects and I fully agree. But when such groups as these are blatantly using their attractivenes to men to sell more then what sort of role models are they for all the young women who like them as well. Are they telling other girls that it is perfectly OK to behave suggestively to get their own way? Don't get me wrong, please, there is no way that dress, or even behaviour, excuses the actions of some men but how can we deal with these mixed messages?

Seriously, I would like to know. And I am sure there are many there that will tell me. In no uncertain terms!

Cheers

Dave

PS - Highlight of the show up to now? Spinal Tap of course and the tiny druids folk dancing around the polystyrene stonehenge:-)