What's to blame?
Hello, newbie here!
A couple of weeks ago one of the weekend papers here had a long article about how young girls, starting from the tender age of six and seven, are already 'little ladies' with a fashion sense, a bloody hunger for logos and brand names, but above all; sexuality and sexual appearance.
The article, which I have to state was not for the right half of the intelligence bell curve, posed a few points I'd like to discuss with the people of this fine community:
1. Is it the fact that big fashion stores (clothes/accessories/cosmetics etc) are on the hunt for new markets, with more gullible future clients, that's to blame? If you're a parent looking for clothes for your little daughter to wear, and all the stores (the big ones in the malls, the ones closest to your home etc.) have to offer to you are tank tops, teeny vests and mini-skirts for your little squirt, is it that you're trapped and forced to buy these overly mature clothes for your girl?
2. Some of the mothers interviewed in the article were clearly slaves-with-wallets to their little monstrous princesses (they don't call those wretched dolls 'bratz' for no reason), who watched and learned their mothers' consumerism habits. Is it the parents' fault they reared a child who can't resist temptation? Who can't stand being said 'no' to? The overly sexy clothes can be in the stores all they want, but someone's got to get in a buy them and dress their kid in them.
3. Finally, here's something I know for sure is true both from ecology classes in highschool and in university; girls mature physically earlier these days, earlier than they have ever in history. This is due to a rise in female sex hormones in our water, in the air we breath and often in the ground. The source of these hormones are from the farming industry and from the cosmetics industry. Birth control pills are, perhaps, one of the greatest sources for these hormones. My mother is an educational councilor in grade schools and over the years she's seen how girls start to develop breasts earlier and earlier than what she remembered in her times.
What implications does this have on the whole matter?
A couple of weeks ago one of the weekend papers here had a long article about how young girls, starting from the tender age of six and seven, are already 'little ladies' with a fashion sense, a bloody hunger for logos and brand names, but above all; sexuality and sexual appearance.
The article, which I have to state was not for the right half of the intelligence bell curve, posed a few points I'd like to discuss with the people of this fine community:
1. Is it the fact that big fashion stores (clothes/accessories/cosmetics etc) are on the hunt for new markets, with more gullible future clients, that's to blame? If you're a parent looking for clothes for your little daughter to wear, and all the stores (the big ones in the malls, the ones closest to your home etc.) have to offer to you are tank tops, teeny vests and mini-skirts for your little squirt, is it that you're trapped and forced to buy these overly mature clothes for your girl?
2. Some of the mothers interviewed in the article were clearly slaves-with-wallets to their little monstrous princesses (they don't call those wretched dolls 'bratz' for no reason), who watched and learned their mothers' consumerism habits. Is it the parents' fault they reared a child who can't resist temptation? Who can't stand being said 'no' to? The overly sexy clothes can be in the stores all they want, but someone's got to get in a buy them and dress their kid in them.
3. Finally, here's something I know for sure is true both from ecology classes in highschool and in university; girls mature physically earlier these days, earlier than they have ever in history. This is due to a rise in female sex hormones in our water, in the air we breath and often in the ground. The source of these hormones are from the farming industry and from the cosmetics industry. Birth control pills are, perhaps, one of the greatest sources for these hormones. My mother is an educational councilor in grade schools and over the years she's seen how girls start to develop breasts earlier and earlier than what she remembered in her times.
What implications does this have on the whole matter?