The over sexualisation of children

[TheGreek]

I just hope that my children are all boys.

[bluesummer]

I would actually like the challenge of raising a girl to be a confident, intelligent, non-whorish woman. It seems like a pretty hard thing to do these days.

[Dasein]

Ok I have to add this to my thread.

Yesterday my niece showed me a photo of her dance group and all of the little girls had full make-up on i.e. red lips, eye shadow etc.

Apparently they were all told that they had to wear red lipstick. She looked like a tarted up little girl. Reminded me of Jon Benet Ramsey.

[vashti]

I hate seeing little girls with makeup on. I don't know why their mothers don't refuse to allow it.

[LadieNisha4u2nv]

Depending on how bad it looked, I'd think there's a difference when it comes to doing a play or dance. When I was in ballet and we had to do the big shows, we had to wear make up, like tons of it. Maybe its just for us to look like little barbie dolls, but I wouldnt go so far as to making us look bad cuz even if our leotard was going up our ass we were scolded to fix it immediately lol.

[vashti]

My daughter has to wear stage makeup for performances, but she is 15. We laugh and call it "transvestite makeup". It looks hideous.

[Dasein]

I wouldn't mind if it was subtle but this was like red lips, blush, eye shadow, eye liner, mascara on 7 and 8 year old little girls. I could have accepted a little bit of gloss on her lips but a note was sent home from school saying they had to wear red lipstick. They all looked ridiculous.

It made me think of the movie Little Miss Sunshine where all the little tarted up girls and their mothers looked down on Olive because she looked like a normal little girl.

[doppelgaenger]

It's just makeup. I don't like it very much because women try to hide their actual appearance behind it. Some guys too, now.

If you wear makeup you don't have any right to complain.



*yanks your words out*

[Dasein]

If you wear makeup you don't have any right to complain.

I'm sorry but what a load of crap. Wearing makeup as an ADULT is much different to wearing makeup as a child.

[doppelgaenger]

How so?

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[vashti]

Women don't hide their appearance... they enhance it. The photo you posted just reinforces that. J-Lo is beautiful with and without makeup. One look is fine for a day at the beach, the other for night.

[bluesummer]

They connotation of makeup is that you're wearing it to enhance your looks and make you more attractive.....these behaviours are ADULT beahviours. Why does a ten year old need to make themselves more attractive?

Half the problem I experienced was with younger girls wearing makeup to look 'older', to attract the attention of older guys. Unfortunately it worked, but not they way they expected it to. Little girls don't understand the potential dangers associated with trying to make themselves look older and more attractive.

[Gigabitch]

My daughter is VERBOTEN to wear makeup until she's 13, at which point she will be taken to a makeup specialist to learn about age-appropriate makeup. Lipstick on eight year olds freaks me out too.

[doppelgaenger]

They connotation of makeup is that you're wearing it to enhance your looks and make you more attractive.....these behaviours are ADULT beahviours. Why does a ten year old need to make themselves more attractive?

Half the problem I experienced was with younger girls wearing makeup to look 'older', to attract the attention of older guys. Unfortunately it worked, but not they way they expected it to. Little girls don't understand the potential dangers associated with trying to make themselves look older and more attractive.

Which is my point; makeup is just makeup. It's the behavior that you want to adjust.

[Dasein]

Which is my point; makeup is just makeup. It's the behavior that you want to adjust.

No Dopple don't be ignorant. Makeup isn't JUST makeup.

Makeup mimics the reaction in the body to arousal..ie flushed cheeks, red lips. When you put this on a small child it is giving out incorrect signals.