Grown women go gaga over 16-year-old pop star Justin Bieber… there’s just something inherently wrong with that scenario.
And I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Did you see the episode of “Saturday Night Live” where Tina Fey played a high school teacher smitten with a student played by Bieber?
“I don’t know whether I want to marry him or put him in a stroller and push him around the mall,’’ Fey’s character ponders in a dreamy baby girl voice-over.
So much for motherhood being connected with adulthood… and completely disconnected to youth culture. These days moms are getting their celebrity crushes on and many of them are drooling over the same young stars as their tween and teenage daughters.
Oprah and several other media outlets touched on the new wave of celebrity mommy crushes recently, and frankly, after watching grown women publicly moon over teen hunks that they could have technically given birth to, it made me happy that my kindergarten daughter and I are blissfully unaware of the Justin Bieber/Zac Efron/ Taylor Lautner trifecta.
Don’t get me wrong; I have nothing against moms going online to chat on sites like “Gossip Girl Moms,’’ (an off shoot of the young-adult book series and CW TV show) or “Vampire Moms,’’ (for rabid fans of the “Vampire Diaries’’), but don’t expect me to join in anytime soon… or ever.
Call me prude, but I think there is something a bit weird about adult women turning into lovesick puppy dogs in public when an adolescent star is present. What I find even more disturbing is the crush of 30 plus-year-old women, who recently trampled over girls half their age, to get backstage passes to meet tweenybopper poster boy Bieber at one of his concerts.
I’m all for loving on celebs; heck, I’ve used this blog to proclaim my infatuation for the likes of Anderson Cooper and Dean Cain, but I’m not knocking down little girls in order to get near the middle aged hotties. Of course, I probably wouldn’t need to elbow an eighth grader in order to touch Cooper or Cain since most tweens don’t even know who they are.
According to parenting experts, society shouldn’t be surprised that today’s moms and daughters are fighting over which male “Twilight” star is cuter. Apparently, it’s the wave of present day culture where moms are endlessly trying to figure out how to be their daughter’s BFF rather than an authority figure. The redefined mother-daughter relationship where moms and their female offspring wear similar clothes, drink the same lattes, obsess over the same TV shows, and text about the same topics, begets arguments over who likes Bieber better.
UGH!
Who is your mommy crush? Are you gaga for the same guy your daughter swoons over?