Today's Sex Symbol

If I had to pick a sex symbol of today I would pick Kim Kardashian.  She is certainly not the same level of "sex" symbol as Marilyn Monroe or Pamela Anderson are, but she is still a popular icon.  She is a perfect example of how people in America are thinking and functioning in our country today.  Americans today are very in to the reality TV.  We watch these shows feeding off of the possibility of a mistake or melt down.  We can not look away from a train wreck no matter how hard we try.  A perfect example of this kind of melt down would be Kim's 72 day marriage to Kris Humphries.  It was pretty obvious that the marriage was never going to make it.  A more recent example would be the relationship between Kim and Kanye.  Let's be honest for a moment... nobody wants them to work out.  We are all secretly waiting for Kanye to destroy Kim.  Or vice versa.  In a way, I suppose Kim could be a new way to identify sexy.  She is not twig thin but she still takes part in photo shoots.  I would like to think that our society accepts models who are not stick thin.

If we were to look at the flip side, we could look at Angelina Jolie.  Again, she is not a big sex icon, but she is the kind of person who uses her fame and money to make people focus on what she thinks needs to be focused on.  She has been named the Goodwill Ambassador at the headquarters in Geneva.  People do not watch her waiting for a melt down.  They watch her to see what good she will do.