I think I'm officially old

Lately I've noticed a trend with girls younger than me...they all look the same. Take a look at these examples:

Now, granted, The Girls Next Door have bigger boobs than the average girl, but come on. These girls basically look exactly the same. Where's the individuality?

The Hills' girls all look the same except, thank God, for Audrina. They throw one brunette in there to kinda help you figure out who the blondes are. Audrina lives with Lauren--or at least she used to when I used to watch this show.

I can hardly keep straight the new blondes on the country music scene. They look too much alike. Now I can tell their voices apart and let's be honest, no one's as beautiful as Carrie Underwood (who's not in this picture, just in case you can't tell them apart either), but still, you get my point.

Now, back in my day, you could tell the girls apart. There was individuality, self-expression, rebelliousness, the need to stand out from the crowd.

Designing Women--now there's a group you can tell apart. Look, each of them even has a different hair color. Now that's diversity.

The cast of Dynasty. They even had a black woman to attempt to represent the real diversity in America.

Our girl Reba. Now that's a unique style she's rockin' here...the curly mullet. Why has that faded from today's fashion scene? I'd love to see the lovely, bitchy Heidi from the Hills workin' this 'do. Nah, she doesn't have the balls to make this 'do work like Reba did.

Can I just say that I loved Valerie Bertinelli when she was in "One Day at a Time"? I still do think she's the cat's pajamas--whatever that means. In today's terms I think I had a definite "girl crush" on her. I think "girl crush" means I want to be her not do her. After all, who didn't want to be married to Eddie Van Halen and live the life she was living then. Come on.


The Judds. Even Ashley was rockin' some individuality, man.

And of course, the queen of all individuality and rebelliousness--Madonna, circa 1980s. This picture even has identified her marks of individuality.

Oh, what I wish the girls today had the fortitude we had in the 80s to say "Screw the world. We'll be who we want to be!"

Well, that's how I remember the 80s anyway.