Jun 18 2009
Are little girls being Sexualized?
When was the first time you heard the tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin? The man who enchanted the little children and wisked them away to his magical cavern, leaving the parents weeping at the sealed entrance.
There is a Pied Piper in our culture today. He is stealing away our daughters, our little sisters, those fresh faces we used to babysit each weekend.
Young innocence is dissapearing, replaced by pre-mature sexuality and aggressiveness. Sales for thong underwear for 7-12 year-olds are sky-rocketing, and “prosti-tots” is actually a viable fashion trend.
Are we surprised?As author and essayist Caitlin Flanagan pointed out, “The goals of contemporary American feminism have been to ‘encourage girls not to be shackled by the double standard and to abandon modesty as a goal, to erode patriarchal notions of how men ought to treat women, and to champion aggressivness in girls”
(Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!)
But someone is taking action, and we can help
Dannah Gresh, author (And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual Purity
The Plan: Present a petition to the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and Women’s Wear Daily calling for reform to girls apparel.
The Goal: 50,000+ signatures
The Next Step: Sign the Petition–> SecretKeeperGirl
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Thank you for sharing this Christa!
We need to do something in Brasil like this!!!
Thanks for sharing
Julie Maria
This is AWESOME Christa – thank you for telling us!
Thanks, Christa! I love this! Definitely something we need.
This is why my daughter Sophia will NEVER be allowed to play with the Bratz dolls. As far as I can tell they promote nothing but suspect at worst goals and dressing like a trollop. They don’t even have noses!!! The nose is still the most popular place for women and girls to have plastic surgery on, it’s like they decided that women/girls would look better without them at all! I mean, even Barbie has a nose and a few lofty goals like being a doctor. Though I’ve never been happy with her UTTERLY unrealistic body proportions, it’s like buying your daughter a reason to have an eating disorder. These dolls introduce things like sexuality and body image issues when our daughters are far too young to deal with them appropriately.
I’m happy with the American Girls and Gali Girls lines of dolls. They are age appropriate, ethnically diverse and educational. Oh ye,s and they are modest without being boring, thus…FUN.
As an aside, I question this statistic about thong underwear for children. In all my life, buying clothing for the children in my HUGE extended family I have NEVER seen thong underwear for children. I’ve asked around and no one else I know has ever heard of it either.
A & F pulled a line of thongs back in 02/03 that were children’s(10-16) sizes.
There are many articles on the net regarding it.
By A&F I assume you mean Ambercrombie and Fitch. As a company they have stumbled more than a few times on moral issues. They were sued a few years ago because the only positions that they would hire non-whites for were backroom, stock positions. Oh, and they were forced to pull a t-shirt from there stores back in the 1990’s that featured two Asian men with tilted lines for eyes and buck teeth, standing in front of a dry cleaners with the quote on the t-shirt saying “Two Wongs make it white.”
Because of this I have refused to shop there for MANY years and often suggest that others boycott them as well. Just one more reason to not give them your hard earned cash.
I whole-heartedly agree with you, concerning boycotting A&F. I will never buy clothes there.
wow, I didn’t realize this! I’ve never shopped there anyway, but still…that’s awful.
I find it incredibly sad that young girls are being marketed by the beauty (highly sexualized) industry at such a young age.
I just signed it and will be bringing the link with me to my bookclub meeting next Saturday. This way my friends can sign it too.
I know this topic is know a little old but I thought I’d leave a comment anyway.
I have a little sister who is not quite two years old, I do not want her to be exposed to all that junk, the idea is terrible! I played with barbie’s when I was younger and I have turned out fine but I don’t think there that great, my Mom pretty much just let me get the princess ones cause the dresses were much more modest but I have noticed that there arent really any of those anymore.when my little sister is older I plan to give her only hearts club dolls, a line of modest sweet dolls that actually look like innocent young girls, they cost more than barbies but you get what you pay for, and sometimes less is more anyway.
I am glad you brought up A & F I refuse to shop there for those reasons and because they support abortion, and really the styles are unfeminine.oh and I don’t shop at Hollister because they are owned by A & F.