I’m nostalgic for the days when we didn’t sell T shirts for little girls urging them to Bend Over.
So this is for sale on @tiktok_uk as suitable for 8 year old girls. It baffles me any mother would buy this for her little girl, or that any woman would sell it but here we are. #childsafeguardingpic.twitter.com/3P6AIYEYwW
“#childsafeguarding”? Really? It’s what younger generations think of (not to my taste, mind you) as a joke. You may not like it (nor should you be expected to), but it is what it is. It’s got fuck all to do with child safeguarding. You never go full Tipper Gore…
To anyone not living in a bubble, this is yet another example of the post modernist attempt to erase the boundaries between adults and children, and so it absolutely is a child safeguarding issue. On an adult, this could be seen as a joke – but this is for eight-year-old little girls! In no sane, fair world would we be turning little girls into message boards declaring them to be sex toys as a joke, let alone in deadly seriousness.
I don’t know when it started, but it’s been happening for most of this century. Every so often, outrageous stuff like this gets put into shops, just to test society’s willingness to accept boundary violations. Fifteen years ago there were clothes for little girls with ‘FUTURE PORN STAR’ emblazoned in coloured glitter on the chest.
It’s not a conspiracy theory when we have evidence of organisations like PIE pushing for the normalisation of pædophilia.
At this point, I think going full Tipper Gore is the least we can do. I mean, as I understand it, (not being an American) she wasn’t actually advocating banning anything. No censorship, just a rating system of the sort that’s being in place for film the world over for the best part of a century. As for this shit, I have zero reservations in advocating banning it.
(Just for clarity, I’m advocating banning sexually suggestive material marketed at children – I also advocate banning marketing junk food to children – surprise. Adults are a different matter. If I tried to explain my views on that, this comment would be ten times as long and I need to go to bed.)
Francis Boyle, exactly. It is exploiting children. It is advertising them. I don’t think it’s particularly funny or appropriate in an adult, but an adult can make a fully informed decision (or act on a whim). A child is at the mercy of adults who buy their clothes.
As an 8-year-old, I would not have understood what this meant. My mother would have. She would have recognized it for what it was and said “hell, no”. And my mother NEVER swore.
“#childsafeguarding”? Really? It’s what younger generations think of (not to my taste, mind you) as a joke. You may not like it (nor should you be expected to), but it is what it is. It’s got fuck all to do with child safeguarding. You never go full Tipper Gore…
To anyone not living in a bubble, this is yet another example of the post modernist attempt to erase the boundaries between adults and children, and so it absolutely is a child safeguarding issue. On an adult, this could be seen as a joke – but this is for eight-year-old little girls! In no sane, fair world would we be turning little girls into message boards declaring them to be sex toys as a joke, let alone in deadly seriousness.
I don’t know when it started, but it’s been happening for most of this century. Every so often, outrageous stuff like this gets put into shops, just to test society’s willingness to accept boundary violations. Fifteen years ago there were clothes for little girls with ‘FUTURE PORN STAR’ emblazoned in coloured glitter on the chest.
It’s not a conspiracy theory when we have evidence of organisations like PIE pushing for the normalisation of pædophilia.
It is what it is. Why yes, it is what it is. What an insightful observation. I realize it is what it is. I dislike what it is.
At this point, I think going full Tipper Gore is the least we can do. I mean, as I understand it, (not being an American) she wasn’t actually advocating banning anything. No censorship, just a rating system of the sort that’s being in place for film the world over for the best part of a century. As for this shit, I have zero reservations in advocating banning it.
(Just for clarity, I’m advocating banning sexually suggestive material marketed at children – I also advocate banning marketing junk food to children – surprise. Adults are a different matter. If I tried to explain my views on that, this comment would be ten times as long and I need to go to bed.)
If I have to be okay with this kind of thing in order to retain my liberal card, I’m fine with cancelling my membership.
Francis Boyle, exactly. It is exploiting children. It is advertising them. I don’t think it’s particularly funny or appropriate in an adult, but an adult can make a fully informed decision (or act on a whim). A child is at the mercy of adults who buy their clothes.
As an 8-year-old, I would not have understood what this meant. My mother would have. She would have recognized it for what it was and said “hell, no”. And my mother NEVER swore.