If you think there’s a “grooming” agenda that’s more and more taking hold in everything from media to education, well, you’re just a ‘right-wing nut job’ and a ‘conspiracy theorist’. Just ignore all the hyper-sexualisation of very young children, girls especially, in popular culture. Ignore the sex offenders dressing up as women and slithering into schools and libraries. Ignore elite fashion brands slipping coded references to paedophilia into their advertising.
’Cos that’s not grooming, you bigot.
On the other hand, the grooming agenda is becoming so obvious that even the legacy media are onto it. Hell, it’s Science!
Are clothing manufacturers helping to turn young girls into sex objects? According to a new study, up to 30 per cent of young girls’ clothing available online in the US is ‘sexy’ or sexualizing.
Oh, you RWNJ, Lushy! Wherever did you dig that nonsense up? Breitbart? The Daily Wire? Alex Jones??!!
Uh, no… Science Daily, actually. Who sourced it from the peer-reviewed journal, Sex Roles.
They examined the frequency and nature of sexualizing clothing available for young girls (children not adolescents) on the websites of 15 popular stores in the US. Sexualizing clothing reveals or emphasizes a sexualized body part, has characteristics associated with sexiness, and/or carries sexually suggestive writing. They also looked at whether clothing items had childlike characteristics eg polka dot patterns and ribbons […]
Across all the stores, of the 5,666 clothing items studied, 69 per cent had only childlike characteristics. Of the remaining 31 per cent, four per cent had only sexualized characteristics, 25 per cent had both sexualizing and childlike features and four per cent had neither sexualized nor childlike elements. Sexualization occurred most frequently on items that emphasized a sexualized body part, such as shirts and dresses that were cut in such a way as to create the look of breasts, or highly decorated pants’ pockets that called attention to the buttocks. The type of store was linked to the degree of sexualization, with ‘tween’ (or pre-teen) stores more likely to have sexualized clothing compared to children’s stores
Science Daily
Science Daily
But we don’t need no egghead academic to tell us what we can see right in front of our eyes.
Carli Pierson is “a multi-lingual New York licensed attorney, former professor of human rights law and opinion writer at USA Today”. Suffice to say that she’s most unlikely to be a ‘RWNJ’. Yet, even she is disgusted by the open sexualisation of children all around us.
Bedazzled booty shorts and crop tops as far as the eye can see – that was the nightmare that I found myself staring into when I went shopping for clothes for my young daughters this weekend.
Why a child would need a high-rise short is beyond me. But to imagine why someone would sell crop tops and high-rise shorts to six-year-olds makes me slightly ill.
And that’s the real question, which is as pertinent to sexualised children’s clothing as it is to ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’. The question isn’t why children need to have creepy men in womanface flashing their fake tits and twerking at them, but why do drag queens need to gain access to children?
Girls of all ages, but young girls especially, are born followers, especially when it comes to fashion. They’ll gobble up any nonsense if they’re told it’s the New Thing (what else could explain the ludicrous beehive hairdos of the early ’60s?). So, it’s not that little girls were just busting to squeeze their underage behinds into booty shorts – it’s that someone thought it was a good idea to persuade them to do so.
From Balenciaga to Zara, big name brands are hypersexualizing kids, knowingly or not.
It’s shameful and needs to stop.
I walked away without buying anything, and with my kids still rocking their ankle-biting pants. This time they didn’t complain. Parents can show designers and big brands they want a change by not buying into that nonsense and demanding more from retailers.
USA Today
USA Today
Whoops, maybe she is a right-wing extremist. I’m pretty sure Kate Hannah will tell us that mothers dressing their daughters in traditional clothes is some sort of White Supremacist conspiracy. Who knows, Carli Pierson will be braiding her daughters’ hair next!
