Why are some girls so trashy these days?

[KANE]

I think its a combination of all of those things, bad parenting, results of a post feminist era, social reasons, and media influence.

The problem is when young men and other young women reinforce this behavior by not shunning it or ignoring it. They praise it thus making women think its ok and men like it.

I don't.

Its a real turn off for me, and i can tell if someone conducts themselves in this.manner with in the fist five mins of talking to them, its the reason why i am single and gave up on looking.

[KANE]

Temple is right. That's a double standard.Mostly they are very insecure and they want to be "cool", and they want a lot of friends, and they want guys to like them and give them a lot of attention. The media definitely doesn't help. Bad parenting is probably the most to blame. You have parents who are trying to be cool and being promiscous and didn't have manners are loud and rude, they cursed when they were kids now they are raising kids and well....

[?]

Poverty, not everyone aspires to act like the middle class.

[waterlin]

a big part of it might be mothers not teaching their daughters to have self-respect.

[melissa m]

I don't really like being expected to act like an angel. I have manners, treat people nicely, and even dress pretty conservatively but I think applying the term "trashy" to all of the things above is bullsh*t (excluding being rude).
Let people live the way they please.

[Neo]

A little bit of what you mentioned. I'd say they think it is "cool" to be the way they are and their parents didn't correct them or just gave up trying to correct them.

[CoachT]

Why do some girls think they get to decide what is socially "trashy" and what isn't?

Is it really "trashy" to be sexual or is that biologically influenced behavior that someone (men?) in society decided is trashy? Basic manners? Who decides what's polite and what isn't? "Cursing like men...", I thought women have been saying for just about 100 years that they should be allowed all of the privileges of men - how then, is that trashy?

The reason that "some girls are so trashy these days" is because some other people observe their behaviors and declare them to be trashy. They remain "trashy" until those people making the declaration decide to engage in the same behaviors (let's be wholly honest - very few people die as adult virgins, never dress "naughty" for their SO, never curse, and are never rude to someone) themselves - at which time it's not so "trashy" anymore.

So:
* Promiscuity? First, we can't define a number of partners that delineates promiscuous - therefor, it's nearly entirely biological drive.
* Way they dress? That's a social function that serves social purposes. It is to impress others, be part of a group, attract a mate, etc... It too then has a biological (fittest survival) function.
* Manners? That assumes that we all have the same idea of what is and is not polite. Some people don't agree. That's a social function and a matter of how you've learned to behave. What do you really think of a HS student that calls teachers "sir" and "ma'am" -- that is the correct manners. Make fun of him, don't you?
* Loud and rude? See manners.
* Cursing like men? Men are allowed to curse and women aren't? Who made that rule? Then again, what exactly is cursing and who decides? Again, social group membership function coupled with learned/habituated behavior.

A better question might be "why do some people judge others so harshly when they aren't exactly models of virtue themselves?"