How Not to Raise Little Girls as Sex Objects in Training.
Because currently, we do, and it’s a huge problem.
In a recent article, I wrote about how as a culture here in America, we raise little girls as sex objects in training. Though, of course, we do not find it culturally accepted to make little girls targets of overt male sexuality, our actions and messages to young women and even little girls make it hard to argue that we do not put little girls into training, at a young age, on how to subtly become sex objects.
I offered several examples of the ways in which we do this, including:
Bikini bathing suits for preschoolers.
Makeup kits for preschool and elementary school-age girls.
High heels for infant girls.
T-shirts for children that say things like “future hottie”, “future trophy wife” or even “porn star” (For the last one especially, really? A shirt that advertises a little girl as someday selling her body to men? Yikes).
Beauty pageants in which preschoolers are judged on their attractiveness while posing and posturing for an audience.
Barbie, current models of the doll including a sexualized “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader” version, as well as a line of “Fashionista” dolls with names like…
