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Rose
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 Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:37 am Post subject: Sex sells girls short |
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Pure Essence
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I was reading a very interesting article published by catholic.org today. It was a report issued by The American Psychological Association about the dangers of sexualizing girls.
The report stated that Products such as Bratz dolls in mini skirts, Teen magazines and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Brittney Spears are teaching girls that they must look sexy in order to be popular. The article addressed how parents, teachers and peers also contribute to the sexualization by conveying the message that physical appearance is the most important goal for females.
There is something seriously wrong when a porn star writes an autobiography and teens are showing up at her book signing to tell her that she is their roll model. In 2005 a researcher revealed that many UK pre-teen girls were inspiring porn stars. 25 percent, of 1,000 15-19 year olds also surveyed hoped to be professional lap dancers.
No wonder young girls are wanting breast implants and feel that they have to be smaller than a size five to look good. It is magazines, music videos and TV shows that lead them to believe this.
In 2002, a national clothing company was selling children's thongs in sizes from 10 to 16 with the words "eye candy" and "wink wink" on the front of them. Making Thongs for kids is wrong!
In 2006, Tesco was forced to remove a pole-dancing kit from the toys and games section of it's website. The site advertised the pole dancing kit with the words "Unleash the sex kitten inside......"Soon you'll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars".
Is it just me or are young girls being sexualized everywhere they go?
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: i can't believe it!! |
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wow!!!!!  are you serious about the pole dancing kit in a toy section? That is one of the most disgusting  things i have heard lately, and believe me, I am no prude!! I just can't get my head around that one. I think about my lovely young nieces and everybody elses for that matter, and shudder at the thought of them debasing themselves in this way. What are we doing to our girls?  |
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This is all wrong! Thongs for children and pole dancing toys? And we wonder why we have problems with child porn! Sick just sick.
If we allow or promote this kind of thinking I wonder what these little girls will be like as a adults.
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The 'Barbi Syndrome' has never died out since it's conception. Tv, Movies, Music, Celebrity media coverage has drastically changed societies perception of what's 'cool' to do or be. Role models use to be more closer to home, but many homes are not close. Money talks way too loud and many people become deaf to its power to deceive.
Much of what people watch, read or listen to, doesn't seem to bother many people...until, they see it's THEIR little girl in the "GIRLS GONE WILD" videos, THEIR young daughter being arrested for public indecency, THEIR precious angel has had so many cosmetic changes done, that they no longer resemble who they once were. "Girls just wanna have fun" but at what price?
Real beauty comes from within the person not from a group of "artists" that are more than willing to turn anyone into a cartoon character. |
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It is disgusting.... pole dancing toys for children?? I mean, could you imagine someone putting this idea forward to a toy manufactoring board? Its very sad... and quite disturbing. I recently read that it is likely that 20% of all children are sexually abused by adults, this world forces itself upon them before they are ready, its just so sad.
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That they make such toys is disgraceful. That enough people buy them to make it profitable is even more disgraceful.
It puzzles me that people become outraged at child molestation and child pornography, and yet put toys on the market that encourage these same criminal acts.
I shake my head in wonder...
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| It's not good for boys, either. The TV programs & movies I see our grandchildren (teen girls and just-turned-teen boy) watching seem to either make jokes of sexuality or imply that everybody participates in overt sexual behavior. There seems to be nothing private, nothing too special to laugh at. I don't like our grandson seeing girls portrayed as sex objects any more than I like the girls thinking of themselves that way, but I don't know how to express my feelings constructively, and it won't help to just be critical. |
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[font=Verdana:e05194f9b6]I ag ree with Arbutus, and think that bringing in the harm to boys as very very well done. I can say as a healthy 25 year old girl that I wish boys would not see girls as sex objects only.....and that girls my age would feel more confident about themselves that they would not feel so compelled to be "sex only" things to be accepted by the boys. I also agree that being critical has become useless. I think that we need to start actively...and I really don't know how....making role models for girls that are healthy and attractive, sexy and wise.
I think that this also means that mothers, aunts, big sisters, etc all need to feel like they are worth being a role model in a good and confident, womanly way to their younger generations. Wonder if that is possible too?
hope so.
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Rose
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| Cparker wrote: |
| It is disgusting.... pole dancing toys for children?? I mean, could you imagine someone putting this idea forward to a toy manufactoring board? Its very sad... and quite disturbing. I recently read that it is likely that 20% of all children are sexually abused by adults, this world forces itself upon them before they are ready, its just so sad. |
Tesco agreed to remove the pole-dancing set from the Toys and Games section of its website.
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Arbutus it is important to install values into boys. Boys need to be taught to not only respect themselves, but to respect girls. As parents (grandparents) it is important to explain to them that women are not sex objects, and should not be taken advantage of.
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| I agree with all that is said here... What are we doing to our little girls and boys!! I just added a post about whatever happened to women as equals and wondered why this is happening and obviously the media and our inability to stop it that is the problem. I want to do something, but like other posters, I wonder... "what can I do?" and will anything work? Maybe we should talk to Oprah! Women seem to listen to her. |
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It amazes me to see how lineant we are with what girls are wearing anymore. While I tend to be laid back, I do get bothered when I see thongs for nine-year old girls, people who less likely are not even going through puberty.
Likewise, respect for others, as well as self, needs to be more emphasized in today's values. While I do not think a little "skin" is bad, I draw the line when public television shows people regularly wearing thongs. |
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I am 19, and I have personally felt the effects of the medias 'sex-sells' pushes.
TV is an extremely powerful medium. It controls and contorts the peoples thinking and their attitudes toward society in general. From that critical age of tweens sliding into teens, it is no longer the natural curiosity of sex that propels kids. They are first brainwashed by the media, and then their natural inclinations to understand their sexuality is heightened by their new technological mind-sets.
Morals in society. What are they? Undefinable. A womens and a mans place in society? No longer is a women cooking and cleaning in the kitchen (thank God), now she is thrust to center stage to become purely some "thing" to objectify.
It is disgusting. There really is no other word for it. Our society is so prudish towards our sexual feelings, and yet all you see in the media in turn of this is sexual images!
I can personally say that I believe being a teenager in this generation is difficult. |
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