SOMETHING ABOUT THAT STRIKES ME AS WRONG! NO REALLY.
I wish I could fuck OP's (ocean pacific, the producers of this travesty) shit up, and tell them that YOU DO NOT SEXUALIZE LITTLE GIRLS.
What the hell is the goddamn world coming to? I'm highly liberal.. but this has nothing to do with liberal, this has everything to do with PEOPLE WHO ALREADY HAVE PEDOPHILIAC TEND
Sorry for the rant and rage. There are some things that get me really riled up, and that my friends is one of them.
So many things wrong with the world that can be prevented.
That said, I don't go along with anything which blames the victim or excuses the perpetrator. Yes, children are susceptible to being sexualized, and are often coached in that by their peers, mass public advertising, their idols, and even their parents. This is why the law has decreed that adults carry 100% responsibility for governing their own sexual behaviour. It doesn't matter if the child wears nothing but target sign. It doesn't matter if they do a freaking pole dance. If someone touches a kid sexually, there is no legal defense, ever.
Just saying because it disturbs me when I hear anything which places the onus on kids.
And, frankly, little kids should be safe to run around naked without fear of being molested.
This is just wrong. Grossly wrong, and it's one of those urban myths--one that's been around since before even the burkha was invented. Talk to anyone who works at Rape Crisis or, say, the Legal Action and Education Fund, and they will list off decades after decades of cases after cases which will absolutely prove it wrong, wrong, wrong.
Paedophiles are turned on by having sex with children regardless of what they wear. That's why babies in diapers are raped. In fact, if there were a general target group of kids that most molesters target it would most likely be the outsiders who dress down, or in poor and shabby clothes, the ones that look like they're picked on by other kids at school, or whose parents don't seem to care for them. That's because they appear more vulnerable, and that there would be a easier chance of getting close to them. It's not the ones who dress in flashy clothes or who call attention to themselves. (And there are always exceptions, but this tendency would be borne by statistical evidence.)
And rapists are turned on by taking power away from the people they rape. That's why 80-year-old women are raped, and severely mentally retarded women with deformed skulls, and morbidly obese women, and women in burkhas, and women who have been living on the streets who haven't had a bath in a year, and women whose bodies and faces have been beaten and swollen black and blue until they don't even resemble human beings anymore.
We have to stop conflating rape (real life rape, that is) with sexuality. It's assault, not sex. And the people who do it get their rocks off on taking power away from others, not because their targets are pretty or look sexy or look like anything except a likely target.
You know, it isn't that difficult to call up abstracts with the studies that prove these things. When I started on my masters, I had to cull from a list of over 8,000 of them, and that was back a few years.
Edited at 2009-04-26 12:05 am (UTC)
Granted some form of sexual exploration is healthy in children, they're going to do it in their own way, either by playing doctor or by exploring gender roles through corresponding toys (like Ninja Turtles or Barbies.. I was rather keen on Turtle/Barbie intermarriage).. but I think that clothing should be left out of it honestly.
That reminds me of something I saw today: A pair of shorts that had a lipstick mark on the butt. On a 9 year old. Or these sweatpants I heard about that supposedly promote abstinence and say "True love waits"... printed on the butt. What the hell?!
I hate looking at clothes for little girls because I'm scared I'm gonna see really slutty things. D:
It's sick how society is sexing up little girls.
I never wanted to dress like a seventeen year old when I was nine. I was over dressing then.
A kajillion years ago when I was young, some joker asked why clothing designers made clothes that only seemed to "fit" young boys (no chest, no waist, no hips). The punch line was because that's what they sleep with/fantasize about.
Just a thought: Ever notice how US kids seem to mature physically earlier than their Western European counterparts? Ever wonder why the EU is so gung ho on NOT accepting US beef/meats because of all the hormones and antibiotics that are generally pumped into our food animals? Think there might be a connection?
My husband blames it not only on the meat but the shots they make little kids have for school as well. A friend of mine her little girl started her period at age nine. Right now I'm trying to figure out a way how to explain to my little girl in four years about all this.
It really is sick with how they sexualized little girls. Then they wonder why they act like sluts and whores. Why they get pregnant and why they get raped. Sorry flame me if you want but I'm a firm believer in 'if you dress and act like a whore don't cry when you get raped'. If its a child dressed like this then it's the parents fault for allowing it as well as the person who does it. But if you're a teen/adult sorry I feel you deserve what you get because you know better.
I like the policy my daughter elementary school has. No sexualized clothing; they will measure skirts and shorts. They allow no mid-riffs and such. I think for a school this is a good policy and I really think all the school's should adopt this policy.