Selena Gomez Completes Sexual Transformation
The Onion is supposed to be a parody news source... so why do their reports always seem to ring true? The website posted this mock article about Selena Gomez on November 19, just a few days after her performance at the Victoria's Secret fashion show.
Viewing the latest entertainment coverage of the 23-year-old singer and actor with great satisfaction, pleased citizens across the U.S. announced Thursday that Selena Gomez had completed her transition into a sexualized plaything just as they had expected. “Good, very good-the cycle is complete,” said Carlisle, PA resident Greg Deleon, one of millions across the country who nodded in approval at a recent Glamour magazine photo spread and Access Hollywood feature segment that signaled the conclusion of the former Disney star’s multi-year transformation into an eroticized puppet meant to occupy the attention of the American mind. “Yes, it is fulfilled, and it can never be undone. She is now but our playtoy, an object of carnality to suggestively dress and pose as we wish, just as those who came before her.” At press time, the nation’s populace had grown bored of Gomez and cast her aside to begin the sequence anew with a fresh, young 14-year-old.
Selena performing at Victoria's Secret fashion show, November 2015
It is disgusting to me that many actresses are sexualized at a young age ( Emma Watson has said that it started happening to her at 14), and it seems especially prevalent with girls who get their start with Disney. There are probably several reasons for this. Some people are eager to see a cute, wholesome teen transform into a scantily-clad adult, and thre press will try to depict it as some sort of "fall from grace," even when it's just a part of natural teenage rebellion and growing up.
Former child star Mara Wilson, now 28, made a lot of good points about this in her 2013 essay Why Child Stars Go Crazy. For reason #6, Mara wrote that when a child star reaches the level of fame that Disney Channel can offer, their parents can lose control of that child to the entourage. (She cited Miley Cyrus as an example.) For reason #4, she named sexual exploitation, writing, "To be a teen idol is to be vulnerable. Brooke Shields has said that being a sex object led her to feel like she wasn't in control of her own body, and is one of the reasons she didn't have sex until she was 22. Natalie Portman has said similar things." How old was Selena when the sexualizing started for her? Did her parents feel like they'd lost control?
Disney Days: Selena and Minnie Mouse at the premiere of High School Musical 2, August 2007
Viewing the latest entertainment coverage of the 23-year-old singer and actor with great satisfaction, pleased citizens across the U.S. announced Thursday that Selena Gomez had completed her transition into a sexualized plaything just as they had expected. “Good, very good-the cycle is complete,” said Carlisle, PA resident Greg Deleon, one of millions across the country who nodded in approval at a recent Glamour magazine photo spread and Access Hollywood feature segment that signaled the conclusion of the former Disney star’s multi-year transformation into an eroticized puppet meant to occupy the attention of the American mind. “Yes, it is fulfilled, and it can never be undone. She is now but our playtoy, an object of carnality to suggestively dress and pose as we wish, just as those who came before her.” At press time, the nation’s populace had grown bored of Gomez and cast her aside to begin the sequence anew with a fresh, young 14-year-old.
Selena performing at Victoria's Secret fashion show, November 2015
It is disgusting to me that many actresses are sexualized at a young age ( Emma Watson has said that it started happening to her at 14), and it seems especially prevalent with girls who get their start with Disney. There are probably several reasons for this. Some people are eager to see a cute, wholesome teen transform into a scantily-clad adult, and thre press will try to depict it as some sort of "fall from grace," even when it's just a part of natural teenage rebellion and growing up.
Former child star Mara Wilson, now 28, made a lot of good points about this in her 2013 essay Why Child Stars Go Crazy. For reason #6, Mara wrote that when a child star reaches the level of fame that Disney Channel can offer, their parents can lose control of that child to the entourage. (She cited Miley Cyrus as an example.) For reason #4, she named sexual exploitation, writing, "To be a teen idol is to be vulnerable. Brooke Shields has said that being a sex object led her to feel like she wasn't in control of her own body, and is one of the reasons she didn't have sex until she was 22. Natalie Portman has said similar things." How old was Selena when the sexualizing started for her? Did her parents feel like they'd lost control?
Disney Days: Selena and Minnie Mouse at the premiere of High School Musical 2, August 2007