Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Maureen Maratita is the publisher of Marine Drive Magazine, an extreme magazine that I find totally disgusting and think totally disrespectful and insulting to the women of this island. The picture also shows the model without the bikini top, she may as well be nude because it shows pretty much everything there is to show. But businesses like the Lone Star and other companies, like it and places that sell car parts buy advertising for the fast and 'easy' crowd and sex sells, so all the MTV wannabe sexpuppies have an outlet. Magazines like Marine Drive lure young girls into the tattoos and body piercing, the tight skirts and spike heels and loose morals. Is there no wonder why the teen pregnancy is on the increase? How about the increase in STDs? How about the increase in AIDs? Those stats don't increase because our girls are members of the Sodality of Mary....I wonder if there's even any such an organization in these days of foot loose and fancy free....no morals....look, mommie, I got my belly button pierced and a dragon tattoo next to my ......! Oh, and lookie here, dad, here I am without my bikini top, isn't that cool?
Our girls turn out this way because they come from homes that are mostly dysfunctional...mommie and daddy are absent or don't give a damn....little girl watches Brittany and MTV, chews gum, has her cell phone with its hundred ring tones, probably has had one or two abortions and is probably anxious to pose for the next FHM cover or be the next Bud or Miller girl...that's her life goal...easy enough to achieve....this isn't the garden that Ms. Maratita will look for the woman of the year and Marine Drive isn't the magazine that will launch the search for same....sneaky, eh? Lucky, the foremost people have two magazines!!!
Ms. Maratita will properly launch the search for the woman of the year from the more 'proper' lady-like section of the world where the ladies have manners, who might know which fork to use when there are more than two next to the plate(oh darn, what ever is that little one for?-oops, there are two spoons too?)Oh, and that napkin, which hand should unfold it? Can I blow my nose on it...hmmmm....to be sure, Guam Business News is the prim and proper magazine which will launch the Woman of the Year search as it does the Man of the Year search and there will be a Gala and people from around the planet will come in their tux and finery and will kiss the feet of the secretly judged and honored one and her name will go in to some hall of fame....
I like the idea of honoring a woman of the year, there are many that quietly serve the needs of this island and rarely get honored for their service but I find it distastful that a publisher who publishes a magazine that portrays women in a distastful and insulting manner is the same one that can turn around and launch a search for that special woman to honor for a year...it just doesn't gel...It's like asking someone who judges ghetto dancing groups to judge a troup of Swan Lake Ballerinas....
If anyone other than Guam Business Magazine launched a woman of the year program, it would be a good thing.......There's Guahan Magazine, so far, that's been the island's best in content and an example in content as well. Anybody but the people who promote 'kuchina' girls.
Sadly, I can safely say that Marine Drive magazine that features kuchina girls and that dear friends, is not a good thing!