Paris Hilton is good for kids - not!

Role model Hilton’s contempt for women who aren’t as skinny as she is revealed in a Howard Stern radio interview with Tina Fey, the former head writer of Saturday Night Live.

Asked if Hilton gave Fey ideas for sketches, Fey replied: “Yeah, she wanted to make fun of all the girls she hates. She was like "I want to play Jessica Simpson, I hate her … she's fat".

Young girls are being raised in a sexually violent culture. Yet there is often only contempt for those who question the sexual wallpapering of society. They are grumpy finger-wagging moralists who side with the Taliban in their desire to control women.

The sexualising of girls is not about freedom but repression. Girls are oppressed by a culture that tells them they are merely the sum of their sexual parts.

The American Psychological Association has found the sexual objectification of girls leads to academic failure, depression, eating disorders and poor self-image. Girls are at risk of premature sexual activity which causes depression.

Pre-teens are encouraged to develop sexy personas, wear G-strings with slogans like “Eye Candy”, and T-shirts that read “You’re at the top of my to-do list”. The Peek-a-boo pole-dancing kit, which comes with “sexy garter” and promises to “unleash the sex kitten inside”, is marketed to six-year-olds.

Liberation now means being free enough to strip like a porn star and hook up with multiple partners in cold soulless encounters - just like Hilton.

Hilton also represents the triumph of consumerism. She earns more than $10 million a year which she appears to spend on herself. Perhaps she hasn’t heard of a little thing called global poverty yet.

Young women making the world a better place aren’t doing so because of inspiration drawn from the cult of cheap celebrity. They have resisted materialism to live authentic lives in meaningful vocations, many working with the poor and marginalised.

These are good role models for our young women, not Paris Hilton whose Chihuahua wears designer doggie wear, is carried about in a Louis Vuitton case and needs puppy Prozac to cheer her up.