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Lolita and the Sexualization of Childhood
Pajamas Media ^ | July 12, 2008 | Meenakshi Gigi Durham

Posted on 07/12/2008 10:03:32 AM PDT by AJKauf

The media's relentless pimping of young girls is profitable — and destructive.

(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: disney; lolita; media; nabakov; pedophiles
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1 posted on 07/12/2008 10:03:33 AM PDT by AJKauf
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What’s being done to the image of young girls in our society is nothing less than a crime.


2 posted on 07/12/2008 10:09:17 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Islam: Imagine a clown car.........with guns.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

...and so much of it starts on the Disney Channel.


3 posted on 07/12/2008 10:10:31 AM PDT by Palladin (Axelrod--the poor man's Karl Rove.)
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To: AJKauf

Why stop at girls.

Now we have Babyz.

4 posted on 07/12/2008 10:19:00 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: AJKauf
our once good culture has slid down the slippery slope so now what once was evil or vile or disgusting or immoral is now, someones "choice"....

I am sure there have always been slutty women to parade in front of men away from families and decent society....I don't care about that...

but to normalize the sexualization of young women from "Hooters" to thongs for babies to Jon Benet Ramsey and that crowd.....

the culture is in the trash and its not because of the big things...but the little things that have accumulated...the little actions that have been accepted and defended...

we Americans need to look in the mirror..even we "moral" ones or ones that consider themselves Christian or patriotic or conervative....if you are indulged in activity that crosses the line, there is no reason to not include yourself in the culture destruction.

6 posted on 07/12/2008 10:23:35 AM PDT by cherry
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Disney encourages kids to be pedophile bait and that is the truth. As for values and beliefs they encourage LEFTIST godless values and beliefs. If you want you kids to be Christian, don’t let Disney be part of their viewing.


7 posted on 07/12/2008 10:26:09 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: cherry

yes young people have sex desires and all that.

but they have taken it to an extreme with all these sexy fashions for such young girls.

Bring back simple dresses and skirts, or simple pants and tops, without being revealing. That would help reverse this. And somebody said in the article, bring back schoool uniforms. School uniform type clothing is very plain and not provocative. That is better clothing for teenage girls to wear. And go easy on all the make up and cosmetics too.


8 posted on 07/12/2008 10:36:27 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Back in the day, didn’t mothers warn their daughters about dressing more modestly so as not to attract bad attention from men? Didn’t they warn them that they are putting out an invitation for things they aren’t ready for by dressing and acting in these provocative ways?

Maybe mothers still warn their daughters about things, but the message may be lost in the desire to be fashionable and trendy per the media messages.


9 posted on 07/12/2008 10:42:08 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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> And somebody said in the article, bring back schoool uniforms. School uniform type clothing is very plain and not provocative. That is better clothing for teenage girls to wear. And go easy on all the make up and cosmetics too.

Here in New Zealand this is the norm: public schools, private schools, integrated schools — all have school uniforms.

Believe it or not, there are twisted perverts who actually get off on the thought of little girls in school uniforms.

Crikey!

The real answer is perhaps a complete rejection of Pop Culture from, say, 1945 onward. It has been a long slippery slope that started out slowly and innocently but has been moving at a fair ol’ rate of knots lately, with no apparent end in sight to the ever-increasing nosedive in public mores.

This slide in public mores probably coincides with the advent of television, rock-n-roll and women’s rights. I don’t see any of these things going away anytime soon, so if there is anything stronger than mere correlation with these things, Civilization is fair poked. Rooted beyond all recovery. Knackered beyond redemption. Buggered for all eternity. Broken.


10 posted on 07/12/2008 10:48:38 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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Did you notice how horrified the media was with the modest dress of the women, men, girls, and boys from the YFZ ranch?

It is an upside down world.


11 posted on 07/12/2008 10:49:34 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I remember the Christmas that my father bought my mother her **first** pair of slacks. They were a beautiful brown wool and lined with silk. Prior to that my mother always wore skirts and dresses.


12 posted on 07/12/2008 10:52:09 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Back in the day, didn’t mothers warn their daughters about dressing more modestly so as not to attract bad attention from men? Didn’t they warn them that they are putting out an invitation for things they aren’t ready for by dressing and acting in these provocative ways?

Maybe mothers still warn their daughters about things, but the message may be lost in the desire to be fashionable and trendy per the media messages.


That was in the old days.

Today, many of these mothers are COMPETING with their daughters seeking attention for all the wrong reasons. Many are not the ideal “example”.


13 posted on 07/12/2008 10:52:14 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Maybe mothers still warn their daughters about things, but the message may be lost in the desire to be fashionable and trendy per the media messages.

I think we are about 50 years too late!

14 posted on 07/12/2008 10:54:27 AM PDT by JOE6PAK (~in vino veritas~)
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And this week you have leftists wanting to label toddlers as “racist” for not liking certain foods. They’re wanting to make newborns into adults, thus coddling of baby rapers will be their next “logical” step.


15 posted on 07/12/2008 11:13:57 AM PDT by JoJo Gunn (The McCainiac's creed: Death to America by a thousand cuts)
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Dude...TMI.......lol


16 posted on 07/12/2008 11:40:25 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (RIGHT: Wots all this then?)
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To: wintertime
I don't believe it was the “modesty” of the dress that drew interest, it was the ‘prairie dress’ style that looked like it was ordered out of the Sears catalog circa 1865. They looked like they stepped out of a time warp.

Just another way a cult separates their members from the outside world and reinforces that they are a people apart. The FLDS cult also liked to break apart families, because like the Communists before them, they know that familial bonds are the only thing stronger than the ties to the State or cult.

20 posted on 07/12/2008 11:48:19 AM PDT by allmendream (shamelessly stealing clever FReeper lines without attribution!)
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