I am a therapist and the mother of three boys. Working with adolescent girls is revealing and watching mainstream media sheds light on the problems we are setting up for this generation.
This morning I caught a couple of minutes of the morning Nick, and a music video featuring (I think) Victoria Justice. The theme was the usual: "I am a hot girl and boys are annoying morons". Additionally the clear message was to be cool you must blow them off. Not to mention a couple of nerds in the background who weren't even worth bullying. These girls are nasty bitches and very open about it.
I often work with smart kids who either opt out of the mainstream completely or struggle with bullying and being ostracized. These are usually beautiful, smart, nearly perfect girls,and handsome guys, yet they feel inferior. I don't remember that it was cool to be a real nasty bitch growing up. When I encourage my male clients (and my own sons) to take personal risks by talking to girls (and even asking them out) I don't realize how much I am setting them up, not only for failure, but for outright ridicule. These girls do this to each other and to the boys who seek them out.
The adoration of the nasty seems rather new to me. Watching this video (and the sentiment that dominates most of the music) is: "it is cool to reject males". Why would this be? It is a disturbing trend. Mean, hot, dumb girls rejecting everyone. I don't see their male counterpart either.
Parents of girls seem to like this. The idea that no one is good enough for their mean, hot dumb daughter is popular among mean dumb parents. Maybe this is an inside the beltway phenomena.