Buying into Sexy: The sexing up of tweens

old but a problem that continues to grow...

just because it is old does not mean that it doesn't need to be addressed.

 

It's all about marketing. And I think Disney Studios is responsible in a big way starting with Britney Spears and some of it's other young stars, who before they reach puberty sometimes are dressed up like adults and promoted. This gives the tweens the idea that the only way to be successful is to bare their bellies and learn sexy dance moves. Walt didn't let Haley Mills have her first real on-screen kiss until she was 18. Just one more thing we have to thank Michael Eisner for changing in the management of Disney Corp.

The only ones it really benefits are the closet pedophiles that enjoy this sort of fare.

 

Sex bracelets today, safety pins with beads twenty years ago...it's all the same stuff recycled. Every generation sheds a little more cloth.

 

Not true, todays young girls feel the only way they measure up is to appeal to the pedophile sect. It's time to put a stop to it. It's only the old letches that are actually benefitting. It's time to value our young girls and make them aware that they don't have to be sluts to be valued. In fact it's their youth and innoncence these wrinkled old marketers are living off.

What would society think if it marketed it's young men this way? And to a certain extent it does, but not as blatantly as it does it's young women.

 

Victorian values and mores have been trashed. and Bratz rushes in

to fill the vacum.

"The Corporations" are only filling the vacum. Bashing "Corporations"
will not re-establish a sense of values.

Is ours and anything goes society ?




:dupe:

 

Allowing Corporations and monied interests to set the levels of proper behavior for our children doesn't accomplish anything but allow for our children to be exploited. There is no vacuum, we are only sold that so that we can be manipulated. Every family unit has values that are worthwhile. And we as a society should stand up and say that marketing doesn't own us or define our society. They are selling us goods, if their goods can't meet our requirements then they are no longer necessary.

"Anything goes"??? for who.... the corporations or the average person? That's definitely not true for the working man. They have to abide by the rules of society and work place every time they step out their door.

 

The problem with counterbalancing the sexing up of "tweens" is the rampant peer pressure. Most younger kids tend to listen to their friends more because they are biologically compelled to rebel against their parents. When I was younger, I was teased as a "prude" because the idea of dating and sex terrified me. And the fact that it can feel like the world is saturated with sex, at least from the media and the whole of society. On one hand, you have parents desperate to strip sex ed from schools as if it will remove the idea from a tweens brain and on the other hand, you have Bratz baby dolls with vampy make up and belly shirt (as if sexing up a tween wasn't bad enough, now babies). The mixed messages are only making it worse. Instead of avoiding the subject, parents really need to discuss self-worth and sexuality early on because the two have become so intertwined in today's society, with both genders. It's becoming acceptable for both little boys and girls to be sluts and if they aren't, they're an oddity.

 

Exactly. Time we told our kids that they don't have to live up to marketing crap. They should take their own time and be who they feel comfortable being, not try to measure up to some Park Avenue spiel.

 

I don't think it'll be possible to write one book that will list all the ways our society is fucked up. Several books might not even do it.