Sorry about the delayed posts. I truly underestimated the effects of jetlag. Let’s just say that drinking 10 vodkas and two bottles of wine on the way back from Rome was not, in hindsight, exactly the smartest choice.So in my jetlagged induced stupor last night I stumbled across a true TV gem–Hotter than your Daughter. Truly, it was a trainwreck, you wanted to look away but you couldn’t. It was Toddlers and Tiaras in reverse. Trashy mothers in their 40s and 50s strutting around the nightclubs wearing truly hideous short shirts, orange tan and too much black eyeliner. My favourite comment from one of the jury members. “She’s a wig away from a drag queen.”
Of course it was a makeover show intended to paint contestants in the most stupid of states. Trashy mum was duly made over, given hair extensions and a slightly more modest outfit and there was much gushing about looking sexy and sultry. But who are they kidding, she’s going straight back to that nightclub in the short skirt, but this time she’ll have long blonde hair extensions to swish around.
So it got me thinking about my relationship with my daughter. Do I want to be hotter than her? In short, no. I have no need and quite frankly she’s set the bar a bit high. It’s an age old thing though isn’t it, mothers and daughters competing. It starts early with wanting all of daddy’s attention, but then little girls become teenagers and mothers can’t be bothered and it all evolves into something quite normal if you’re lucky.
How would you like to be Madonna’s daughter though? Poor girl, she’s still at the Madonna “Like a Virgin” stage and her mother’s well hot. I’ll qualify that with a hot for her age. The woman looks really, really good but I wonder why she finds it necessary to make video clips where her main form of dance is the pelvic thrust done more enthusiastically than Elvis. I don’t find it attractive, in fact I find it a little disturbing. It actually distracts you from the song she’s performing and turns me right off my food.
Madonna definitely thinks she’s hotter than her daughter and you’d have to wonder what sort of emotional baggage that child is going to end up carrying. I actually think Madonna might be a teensy bit of hypocrite as well. Apparently her children are not allowed to watch TV, eat junk food or have any fun in general. Talk about a mixed message. Mum cavorts with a toyboy, wears terribly inappropriate clothes and appears (with hip thrusting) on TV. Hmmm! Image
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