Lucilia cuprina writes:

> A friend of mine called me up long distance Saturday afternoon to express her horror at a TV commercial she'd just seen. It was for a game aimed at preteen girls called "Sealed With A Kiss". You get a card that has a picture of a Cute Boy on it (you don't choose the card). This boy *likes* you so he is your Boyfriend. You use a stamp to put kisses on the picture. If you kiss him five times, you get to keep him. But watch out -- your friends can "steal" him first!

> can someone tell me what this says about society?

1. Cute boys have no intrinsic value.

2. Boys who are not cute have even less value.

3. People will like you because you want them to.

4. It doesn't matter whom you like; people are interchangeable.

5. People who like you are your possessions.

6. Emotional intimacy is irrelevant, and has no value at all.

7. Physical intimacy is a mechanical act. You don't have to be involved in it to do it.

8. You can have everything you want with no effort except to defend what you have from others who want to have the same things with no effort.

9. Your friends are your enemies.

10. Your enemies are your friends.

I fail to see the point of this game. What is it going to teach them that they haven't already learned? What are they going to do in this game that they don't do every day?

"Do not go gentle into that good night;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light."
(Sorry, Dylan; I know it's out of context, but it fits.)