Child beauty pageants are coming to Australia, bringing controversy along with the hair extensions and false eyelashes. An episode of the reality TV program Toddlers and Tiaras will be filmed in Melbourne, however feminists and child psychiatrists are calling for legislative measures to have it banned. While there has been smaller-scale pageant activity in the ...
Fucking French Vogue and it’s juvenile need for attention. The magazine is back with another oh-so-shocking photo spread. We know it’s art because it is upsetting our delicate bourgeois sensibilities. No, it’s not pregnant women drinking and smoking this time. And they managed to avoid putting anyone in blackface. In fact, it’s quite humdrum for ...
The celebrity lifestyle of big break-ups and cheating is negatively influencing children’s ideas on marriage and this needs to be addressed. At least that’s what the group reviewing the sexualization of children says. They think that “sportsmen and women had a clear influence on children’s behavior and ideas of what was acceptable.” Because of this, ...
In an effort to stop the sexualization of children an inquiry is being made in the UK into marketing rules for products aimed at children. The main goal of the committee is to create age-appropriate guidelines for marketing. They are hoping to stop brands and symbols such as “porn star”, “Lolita”, padded bras for girls, Playboy ...
Glee is one of the most popular shows on television at the moment, and as often happens when shows are so popular, they get to do photo shoots for big magazines. As also often happens is shows about high school, the actors are actually in their late-twenties, rather than mid-teens. This has led the Glee cast ...
It’s no surprise that kids like adult music. I mean wouldn’t you pick Rihanna over Raffi? But there is a difference between dancing to grown-up music, and dancing like a grown-up. Especially in a public sphere like television or YouTube. It is every girl’s dream to dance on stage like the stars on TV. Yet ...
Mack // Scottish Women Against Pornography (SWAP) have lost their bid to have ‘lads magazines’ labeled as porn and restricted away from children in the shops. I’m sorry ladies, but as much as you might not like them, these magazines are not porn and there are some far worse influences on children out there.
Thousands of parents, teachers and children in Australia were surveyed to reveal a scary list of milestones in the minds of young girls. Brand names, Brazilian waxes and blow jobs are all necessary experiences for the under 14 set. Maggie Hamilton is a teacher who focused her research on the sexualization of children. She found ...
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