[shrinkermd]

Good, thoughtful article that is hard to excerpt. Reading the entire article well worthwhile.

I note the NYT has little to nothing on the front and editorial page about the WOT and Iraq. Pinch must be on vacation, since paper has some fine articles today.

[Stepan12]

Sounds like a pedophile's paradise.

[dasboot]

Oh...I get it now: the APA was a big part of the public school sexual revolution starting in '64. HA! They were making work for themselves!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

does anyone remember Kate Greenway dresses for little girls? Very special sweet dresses that always had a little pocket?

these must really be disturbed mothers...I can't begin to figure out the diagnosis..the mind boggles.

[Wuli]

If anyone needed this report to (1)tell them what's been going on with the sexualization of children, at younger and younger ages and (2)understand the danger to all children when that is done, then I doubt reading the report will make things better for their children. Some things about being a good adult with children are just there or they're not.

[raybbr]

Good, thoughtful article that is hard to excerpt. Reading the entire article well worthwhile.

It reads like a woman with ADD. A hodgepodge of thoughts that really don't say anything.

For instance:

Not when we walk around the house sucking in our stomachs in front of the mirrors. Not when we obsessively regulate the contents of our refrigerators in the name of “purity.” (Did you know that there’s a clinical word for the “fixation on righteous eating”? It’s called “orthorexia.”) Our girls see right through all our righteousness.

Okay, woman are not supposed to be concerned with their looks or their health.

And then:

And they hear the hypocrisy, too, when we dish out all kinds of pabulum about a “positive body image,” then go on to trash our own thighs.

So, which is it? Are girls supposed to see their mothers walking around not taking care of themselves or are mothers really supposed to portray a healthy person?

[showme_the_Glory]

I'm glad I have all boys. :-)

[I still care]

Hysterical. On one hand they cry about the sexualization, but everything Conservatives try to do, for instance, to keep homosexual clubs out of schools is decryed as puritaniam.

The only time you'll hear the left crying about it is if they can pick on corporations about it.

They wanted a "sexual revolution". They got one.

[diverteach]

If blame needs to be placed, it needs to be on the school system. They indoctrinate todays youth as young as 5 with sex-ed, not to mention homosexuality, getting them to ponder and explore thier own sexuality at a wayyyyyy to early age.

[antiRepublicrat]

I always thought this equated to child abuse:

She was only 6.

[endthematrix]

"...I know that sounds pretty nasty. We’re not supposed to be judgmental these days. We’re not supposed to blame parents — especially mothers. I also know that what mothers do or don’t do (short of out-and-out abuse) doesn’t, single-handedly, “cause” much of anything. But I think it’s fair, even necessary, to wonder"

How Pathetically PC. This reads like one is apologizing to a rapist and the asking permission switch positions.