“She’s not very attractive”
I heard that sentence uttered in relation to Bindi Irwin the other day. Have we really got to a point in society where discussing the attractiveness of an eight year old is acceptable?
Is the line between women and girls being blurred so much that the atractiveness, or apparent lack thereof, of an eight year old becomes a talking point amongst grown men. That is just plain creepy let alone the societal implications of this. Me and a friend were discussing just the other day the increasing trend of young girls dressing like women.
I don’t know if I agree with Bindi Irwin’s pervasiveness in the media of late, the fintess dvd for kids (WTF?!), the shows, it sounds like an awful lot of pressure to be putting on a young child. But I don’t have any idea what’s going on inside the family, perhaps it’s what she actually wants to do. In any case what I find more worrying is this focus on whether she’s beautiful enough to be in the public eye. As if it’s offensive that anyone who doesn’t adhere to the [bullshit] mainstream ideal of beauty is in the media; that she shouldn’t be there, EVEN IF SHE’S EIGHT!
Are people so brainwashed into thinking that females, no matter their age, are there just as eye candy, that they should dress like women, that they should be taught from before the age of ten that it’s only their ‘attractiveness’ that matters in this world and who do you think you are appearing in the panopticon if you don’t bleach your hair, cake on the makeup and wear a short skirt - EVEN IF YOU’RE EIGHT!
Don’t answer that.
The mind boggles.
Did I mention we’re talking about an eight year old here?
BTW sorry for the absence. We shall be back to regular programming some time soon.
Germaine Greer once said the legacy of the sexual revolution had its flaws. the idea of free love i.e spontaneity and sincerity in male-female relationships had just tragically morphed into meaningless, commodified consumerist sexual culture. (consumerism by its is nature is conservative & not trangressive)
she lamented how the only sexuality that had really been “freed” was male sexuality- from every limitation law, tradition and religion once exercised upon it- from the explosion of cyber porn, to little kiddie “pole dancing” kits and frilly infant bras- there are no limits.
A fair comment considering an eight year old charms are now fair game for comment among grown men. seriously. sick.