VRWC has a good point here...we've wandered away from the most important implication. We've been talking about judgment and prejudice. Well, my wife sometimes wears lingerie. There's not a thing wrong with that, but anyone who tries to sell lingerie to a little kid deserves a punch in the teeth at minimum.
Yes...we have drifted off the subject of the thread. It is irresposible for a parent to give these to a little girl just as it would be for the parent to let the girl wear a thong or drink beer. Thats adult stuff.
I can understand a kid getting a Mickey Mouse temporary on their wrist at Disneyland. They are technically the same but we all have enough sense to know they are different.
I kind of agree, though honestly, the only time I’ve heard ‘slut, tramp stamp, back tat is SEXY!’ is here. Seriously. Everyone I know personally is kind of like “What!?!” when I’ve asked them about it being seen as slutty, followed by a quick “I’ll kick their butts!”
Also, I know little girls love stickers, those funny little fake pictures you can rub on and having things painted on their faces. The issue clearly is location and exposure more than the actual tattoo itself, which I agree, is pandering to the lowest denominator.
But-— I also know that many who freak about a fake lower back tat on a little girl (which she could do on her own, I’ve seen niece with Cinderall stickers all over her)....
I know that these are the same parents who let there little gilrs take dance from Miss Suzies School of Dance where they learn the ‘newest’ spraddle legged hip hop inspired....locks, drops and pops. As well as these being the same parents who go to a sporting event to see JR. High teens doing some of the same ‘Look at my crotch’ cheers and moves AND these may be some of the same parents who think nothing of having a baby Jon Benet enter into the local “Little Miss I Look Like a Big Girl” pageant.
IOW, one thing is so minor (in my eyes) as compared to what sexy stuff is acceptable, even in the backwoods of the Southern US. And yes, I see it a lot, because folks freak at having us perform, then we go on after Miss Suzies Teens and look like Nuns. :)