The Sexualisation Of Girls

Is feminism dead? As 2010 comes to a close, one of the clearest trends was the increase in campaigning and publications highlighting the way old female stereotypes in an increasingly aggressive manner.

Natasha Walter’s book Living Dolls: the return of sexism details how pornography has now come off the top shelf and is now part of our mainstream culture. So much a part of it that highly sexualised outfits are now being peddled at children. There was, for instance, a campaign against padded bras being sold to girls as young as seven. Playboy is also targeting children and many primary school children already wear make-up at school.

Some argue that there is nothing wrong with this. Children have long wanted to dress up in their mum’s clothes, including high heels (Bratz, who out-Barbie Barbie in their total obsession with shopping, have a whole range of high heeled shoes for kids) and bras. But dressing up for play is one thing; wearing these type of clothes on an everyday basis is quite another. Read more at technorati.com