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Girl Power?

I typed "girl power" in google images, just to see what would come up, and was quite appalled at the first three pictures that matched. The first two pictures seem to be a female singer named "Cookie Cutter Girl" who's website says:
"My name is "CUTTER" and I am FREEING WOMEN
everywhere from the mold in which society holds them captive!
Join me on my MISSION of STRENGTH THROUGH UNITY."
Ok, so this sounds uplifting, but in the picture, she is laying sexually on the top of a huge yellow truck in skimpy clothes and high heels. Is this a joke?
The next picture was from a comic book of a superhero named "Power Girl". From what I can tell from the text, she just saved a man's life, but he doesn't thank her because he is too busy staring at her enormous cartoon breasts.
To think that if a young girl were to google "Girl Power" looking for pictures of the Spice Girls or something, and those pictures would be the first things she would see makes me sick. The girls we watched in class on Thursday (Zoey, Raven, and Hilary) and the images that came up first when I googled "Girl Power" really are a testament to what those words mean in our society. To be a "powerful" girl, you are sexy, bossy, bratty, and loud--but you still like boys, want their affection, and accept them in end. So as not to be a complete pessimist, I think shows like these are definitely a step in right direction, but still need a lot of work when it comes to showing young girls how to be "powerful."

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cookiecuttergirl.com/images/COOKIECUTTERGIRLPHOTOS/COOKIE%2520CUTTER%2520GIRL%2520POWER%2520MOBILE.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cookiecuttergirl.com/meetcookiecuttergirl.html&h=382&w=600&sz=46&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=58kC9OdZFkwVKM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgirl%2Bpower%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN

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