Could not be more wrong. Such superficial thinking by this writer. Girls have been hypersexualizing themselves as long as there have been girls. Modern media is not causing it; it is reflecting it.

Girls confuse the attention and validation they get for hypersexualizing themselves with love, and to do it over and over, becoming addicted to it (the love substitute) to the point in this day an age where they PREFER validation and applause from strangers over and against true love. A girl is trying to answer her internal question of if she has some beauty worth unveiling. The world cannot answer that question for her, only God can. So when she takes her internal question to society she gets only warped ad false feedback that never satisfies her good desire to be cherished.

Attention IS a form of love, it is one component of love at least, but unless a woman has real depth to her soul, she will gravitate to the mere appearance of love over and against the substance of love. A life-strategy that proved to as foolish as it is self-destructive. Is this not the lesson of Mme Bovary?

The problem is not too much patriarchy, but NOT ENOUGH of it. Girls need loving Father's - patriarchs - to take their question to ("AM I enough"), and in the absence of patriarchs they can turn to, they fall into the quagmire of self-referential distortions.