Time to be mortified!

Look at the following picture very closely and see if you see anything wrong with it:

Looks like a bunch of clean-cut young women posing with our fearless leader. But this America. The place where controversy is as common as McDonald’s. Ugh!

Generational conflict at heart of flip-flop debate

By Tim Whitmire / Associated Press

Back and forth it goes with the tale of the Northwestern University women’s lacrosse players who wore flip-flops to meet the president.

Flip: “Nobody was wearing old beach flip-flops,” said one of the players, who wore a rhinestone-bedecked, $16 pair to a July 12 ceremony at the White House honoring the team for its NCAA championship.

Flop: “Don’t even ask me about the flip-flops,” said her mother. “It mortified me.”

Flip: Everyone was dressed up for their picture with the president. “Their hair wasn’t askew, they were clean-cut kids,” said one fashion expert. “They’re athletes, so the whole concept of casual dressing on the part of athletes dictates that’s the way they should dress.”

Flop: This is the buttoned-down, dignified Bush White House, where the president has forbid jeans and required neckties in the Oval Office and women are instructed to be “appropriately dressed.”

The flap is rooted in the same generation gap that almost a century ago — at the very dawn of mass culture — caused elders to be scandalized by the above-the-knee dresses and bobbed hair of 1920s flappers.

From miniskirts and go-go boots in the ’60s to Madonna’s lingerie-wear in the ’80s, it’s a rite of passage for young people to offend grownups — intentionally or unintentionally — with the way they dress. No doubt some of the same Baby Boomers who rolled their eyes over flip-flops at the White House were once young people who earned parental scorn by making blue jeans into go-anywhere wear.

I think I’m going to be sick. Next they’ll be saying that those young woman were trying to arouse The President by showing their feet. Hmmm…. FEET! Y-U-M-M-Y! (obligitory foot fetish comment)

I’m mortified all right. Mortified that there are “mature adults” even making this an issue. Damn Forrest Gump was right.

3 Responses to “Time to be mortified!”

1. Rosemary Esmay says:

   July 23, 2005 at 10:28 pm

   The only thing that would be mortifying is if those girls had skanky feet with big ol’ corns and stuff.
2. R U Serious says:

   July 24, 2005 at 11:08 am

   You know what I ttok out of this controversy? There are more hot female lacross players than I ever imagined.

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3. Enigma says:

   July 31, 2005 at 4:58 pm

   oh for fucks sake. there are designer flip flops now that cost upwards of $100. gimme a break.