2010年12月7日 星期二

Shops alone aren't to blame for sexualising young girls

About ten years ago, while pregnant with our son, I remember being very uncomfortable -noticing that shops were selling baby clothes with slogans like I'm A Babe!, or the shameful My Mum's Hot.This is supposed to be not the first time for you to hear about the nike air max Liquid Racer since it was previously featured in four other colors.

Within a few years,From hand held inflatable products carrying your logo, to giant blimps, message boards and balloons for the large venues, those same stores had begun stocking ‘sexy' clothes -targeted at little girls — so by the time my own daughter was nine or ten, and her idea of a perfect Saturday -morning involved us going to Primark and Bhs, it was commonplace to see racks of pink padded bras in size 26AA, cropped T-shirts, and tiny skirts that are barely decent.

Did my son ever wear a romper suit that declared him to be a Bad Boy or a Granny Magnet? He did not. Did my daughter find herself the pre-pubescent owner of a padded bra or a T-shirt proclaiming her a Future Footballers (no apostrophe, naturally) Wife? She did not.

This is for the very simple reason that I never bought them.

So I'm delighted that the Government is planning legislation to prosecute stores which persist in selling obviously sexual products aimed at children.

But I'd be even happier if the women who buy them realised the terrible -damage they are doing. For their actions are part of a degrading and seemingly relentless trend to turn -children into sex objects, which in turn is the inevitable consequence of a -society that has become hypersexualised.Our offer inflatable mattress bed,ed hardy bags,ed hardy clothing,ed hardy caps,cheap ed hardy,discount ed hardy,welcome to order!
So how do some of these little girls grow up?

In Natasha Walter's book Living Dolls, which charts the sexualisation of young girls, there is a disturbing passage in which she interviews girls at a London sixth-form college.
Disturbing: In Natasha Walter's book Living Dolls she interviews teenage girls who cite Sex And The City as one of their inspirations, and say they would take part in topless modelling

Disturbing: In Natasha Walter's book Living Dolls she interviews teenage girls who cite Sex And The City as one of their inspirations,Finally I sighed, bent down and scooped them up, installing them in a large pet carrier. and say they would take part in topless modelling

Three tell her they have already had sex with numerous boys, cite Sex And The City as one of their great inspirations, and say they would willingly take part in topless modelling or pornography. They want to ‘run' their sex lives, and have little interest in men who might show tenderness or a desire for emotional commitment.

But perhaps most telling of all is their justification for their behaviour.

‘My father left my mother,' one of them told Ms Walter, ‘and since then she hasn't really had a relationship. He's had lots of girlfriends.For merchants, the purchase of wholesalejeansinterneteclub is available only to those with proper documents. I never want to be in that position. Never.'

And there lies another part of the answer: family breakdown. A shocking study this week revealed that half of all children born today will see their -parents split up before they are 16.

The message this sends out to sons is that relationships don't last. The message it sends out to daughters is that men are not to be trusted. And the way many young women are choosing to deal with that is to flaunt their own sexuality, in the mistaken belief that if they have no-strings sex on their own terms, they will not suffer the -consequences of a broken heart.

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