I've been really uncomfortable with the way young girls are portrayed ever since the Spice Girls were out and they were making leopard print miniskirts and heels for five year olds.
It really creeps me out, because the cliche that a paedophile's excuse is always "but she looked older" is given more and more validity all the time. Seriously: thongs for seven year olds? How fucked up is that? You can't justify paedophilia, but we're hardly discouraging it in the way we present little girls in particular, are we?
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Re: serious business
on 2008-08-03 12:31 am (UTC)I've been really uncomfortable with the way young girls are portrayed ever since the Spice Girls were out and they were making leopard print miniskirts and heels for five year olds.
It really creeps me out, because the cliche that a paedophile's excuse is always "but she looked older" is given more and more validity all the time. Seriously: thongs for seven year olds? How fucked up is that? You can't justify paedophilia, but we're hardly discouraging it in the way we present little girls in particular, are we?