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Madonna, who recently com- pleted her Sticky and Sweet World Tour, thinks her daughter dresses too sexually. She said, "If anything, I wish she'd dress more conservatively, How's that for irony?"

So which one is wearing black underwear in public? Looking for a new role model for young girls? Vocabulary At a Viva Glam Ironic: incongruent, an outcome of event in London, I was recently in the lobby of a cinema events contrary to what was, or might , and saw a poster for a film featuring a have been, expected. pictured at left, new young female super hero named Hit Girl. I went home and researched it on Celibacy: abstinence from sex said, "When the internet. I discovered she is a comic you're in the book character featured in the movie public eye, you're Kick Ass. She is a ten-year-old assassin He is a 16-year-old a role model with a mouth worse than a sailor. She whose YouTube whether you shoots, she stabs, she bayonets and kills video went viral want to be or not. people without regret, calling them c***s. and has been seen And I want to She's a ten year old killing machine by most every 11- The rest of Lady Gaga's outfit, be. ...I can't without a conscience. year-old girl. He has one million followers on believe I'm saying not pictured, is a bikini bottom The movie is rated R for for strong brutal Twitter and is gaining 10,000 more each day. this: don't have violence throughout, expletive language, His first album was released in November. He sex. It's not really cool any more to have sex sexual content, nudity, and drug use has the number one and all the time. It's cooler to be strong and involving children.” It has received number eight hits on Billboard's independent," she said. "It's OK not to have positive reviews for empowering women. Top 200. He is the youngest sex, it's OK to get to know people. I'm It is clearly aimed at teens and pre-teens male to top the charts since celibate, celibacy's fine." and soon will be seen by far too many of Stevie Wonder in 1963. He is Email me if you'd like Lady Gaga to give a talk them. being raised by his 34-year-old to your youth group on celibacy. mother, a professed Christian. Write to us at: [email protected]