Role models are scarce guys.

So lately I've been afraid of what society will do to my daughter. I understand she's still baking in the oven and that she'll have the influence of her father and I to counterbalance the ridiculousness that is society. But I'm still pretty terrified. 


We now live in a world where women who starred in sex tapes with a random semi-famous guy is made rich and famous. Yeah, I'm looking at you Kim Kardashian. What the hell did she ever do to contribute to society? She isn't even famous for movies or television or music. All she did was have an enormous ass and have a sex tape. Not to mention her lavish wedding that lasted 72 days. This is not the woman I want my child looking up to. 

There's a whole write up on how she symbolizes everything wrong with Western Society. I can see where she's coming from. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9342274/Kim-Kardashian-sums-up-everything-that-is-wrong-with-society-headmistress-says.html

I don't like that I can sit here and think of a ton of women who terrify me. Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, Kim and all her Dashian relatives, etc. All of these women are horrible role models. 

Here's a few of the women past and present that I wouldn't mind my child looking to. 


Princess Diana was always a woman I looked up to growing up. Stylish, classy, and doing a lot of good around the work with her charity work. (Don't you people dare disparage her to me and try to talk about adultery etc. Bitch please.) Currently, close to that standard set by Diana is Catherine Duchess of Cambridge. She's young and beautiful and has a wonderful sense of style. I think in the coming years she'll really be doing a lot of good for charities like Diana did. I absolutely think Diana would approve of her, and I'd absolutely be ok with my daughter looking to either of these women as a woman to admire. 

Kim K, take a gander. This is how it's done.

Shawn Johnson is another woman that I think is fabulous. The US gymnastics silver medalist from the previous Olympics in Beijing. She is a hard worker, intelligent, dedicated, and extremely talented. She's also close to her family. I thought forsure I was going to get to see her perform at the summer Olympics this year, but due to a knee injury she recently retired from gymnastics. She is a lovely girl though. 

Kate Winslet has always been one of my favorite actresses. Ever since she made me sob as Mariann in Sense & Sensibility. She's beautiful. Really truly beautiful. When Titanic came out and she caught so much hell for being fat, she stayed true to herself and said she thought she looked just fine and would not be crash dieting to make herself into what the industry thought she should be. Today, she's saying she'll never undergo plastic surgery while fully immersed in a plastic surgery crazy world. There's really not many actresses as classy as she is left. That's a damn shame. 

At the original Titanic premier and the recent 3D premier.  Oh gee, to be fat like her in the original.

Marie Curie. Talk about a lady before her time. She was a genius. She had 2 Nobel Peace prizes. She was a pioneer in radioactivity and discovered new elements. She was out doing things that women just weren't doing at the time. Hell, men weren't even doing them. She was a ground breaker for women to be introduced into science and she made a huge impact in the world. Of course she ended up dying from her exposure to radioactivity over the course of so many years. The point is, she was a fucking genius. She is nugget role model approved. 

Harriet Tubman. For fuck's sake guys. She risked her life daily to help other people. She escaped from slavery and then helped countless others escape as well- guys no one was killed that she helped to escape. After the Civil War she helped with women's suffrage. She was a true badass. Probably the modern day equivalent in badassery to Samuel L. Motherfucking Jackson. 

That is a badass. Nugget approved.

So what I'm saying is, there are plenty of women out there to look up to. Both women from the past and women in the present. Why the hell don't we hear more about them. Without the influence of positive role models our children run the risk of turning out like these "ladies":