JISHOU, HUNAN — Eva Lorraine Molina, who is apparently a very proper, conservative lass at Amherst College, bewails the lack of ladylike behavior and offers in her essay suggestions on how to correct this critical shortage of ladylikeness.
Molina begins her piece, “Where Have All the Ladies Gone?” [long time passing ...]
As our society abandons the conservative values that make women into ladies, women with grace and dignity have become an endangered species—especially on today’s college campuses. The kind of woman who inspired Tom Jones’ song “She’s a Lady” has become an antiquated figure from America’s past. Most popular songs about women today are more like “Youse a Ho” by Ludacris.
Right there, the wise and erudite Miss Molina had my attention, because clearly she has not done her homework very well. In fact, the song that Jones made a hit in 1971 is only a few degrees removed in social inappropriateness from Ludacris’ “Ho,” from 2000.
The gist of her article is that conservative girls shouldn’t act like liberal girls, that is, like “ho’s,” but instead more like the ladies of yore, who didn’t cuss, didn’t drink, didn’t try to be “one of the boys,” and especially didn’t sleep around.
Yeah, she’s in a fantasy land, but she’s Republican and still very young, so I’ll cut her some slack.
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