Last night on the news and ACA I saw where 'padded' bras were being made for girls as young as 6. Clothes and accessories are styled to be 'sexy' and 'cool' and little girls are being made into objects of desire.
There was a fear voiced that paedophiles would be encouraged to see these little girls as desirable, which to me only goes to show how naive and uninformed these people are. If anything it will target them as sexually desirable to straight men. Paedophiles like their victims more lacking in sexual characteristics. Almost sex-less. Making little girls look older is only going to encourage attention from older boys or young men who see these little girls as more teen aged. Either way these little girls are not encouraged to stay 'little girls' who like to play with Barbie Dolls, dressup like 'princesses' and 'fairies' and just BE 'Little Girls'. Goodness, we are a long long time 'grown up' so let the little kids under say 14 or 15, be little kids... because it is all too fleeting.
What are your thoughts and it doesn't just have to be about little girls.

Yes. Inspiration for all this is drawn from things like the (slutty) Bratz dolls and the 'oh look at me' Barbie dolls. I think even the clothing is making the little girls look skankier (excuse the strong language), and I think it's not right.

Definately....its quite sickening actually...

I think its not so much that they are encouraged but more so with todays enviroment and culture and the need for them to grow up quickly.

But thats just my thought.

I'll say! You see these bratty kids in like year 5, wearing makeup and mini skirts etc with mobile
phones and all. They get really b!tchy and snobby that young! When I was in year 5 we played like tag and stuff at lunch!

My 5 almost 6 year old friend is a beautiful 'little girl'. Before she began school she went to a day care centre for a couple of years. Some of her little girl friends were bratty, stuck up, had to have the latest everything. She no longer has contact with those girls and goes to a different school. Next monday is a dress up day and she is going as a fairy all in pink. She told me last night that ALL the kids were going as fairies and I said 'I bet the boys aren't' and she said 'no... they are going as Princes' and I said 'Just as it should be'! She still goes to bed surrounded by her babies (soft toys, baby dolls and bears) you can hardly tell where she is amongst all of them. They are only little kids for a little while, let them enjoy it.

Do you recommend having kids? I always thought about what it would be like... anyone have any information for me?

Reading the headlines every day, seeing how depraved mankind is, all the war, the fear etc... it can only get worse as the years go by. Who wants to bring kids into a world like that?

Meanwhile, any parent who buys their little girl a padded bra must have rocks for brains! And SHAME on the fashion designers for designing them, and the retailers for selling them! Let kids be kids! Let them dress like kids, not like little prostitutes! And while we're at it, SHAME on the creators of those hiddious Brats dolls! Have you seen the Brats babies? They look like babies, but they're dressed in leather, knee high boots and revolting goth makeup. SICK, SICK SICK!

Simpson, I sadly sell those every weekend

And how about that 1800 Reverse ad, where the girl (who looks to be 13 or 14) got a tatoo. That's just not cool.

I can't stand that BRATZ crap, on one of my daughters birthday she was given a Bratz Game, all I heard for a solid week was the head throbbing sound track  , it was a insult to music, honestly it gave asprin a headache, just for fun my oldest daughter put it on my mobile phone and then called me at work. My fellow workers wondered what the hell was going on when I was mouthing off at the phone  

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And how about that 1800 Reverse ad, where the girl (who looks to be 13 or 14) got a tatoo. That's just not cool.

I know!! When I first saw the ad, I was thinking 'hmmm, wonder where this is going?' I thought maybe it was going to be one of those medical ads that shows what happens when you get a tat from a dirty place and it gets infected.

I wonder if you can invest in the medical removal of tats? Actually, what I want to invest in is the reversal of those nasty earrings that stretch the hole in the lobe. Can't you just see in about 15 years, all the idiots who permanantly stretched their earlobes wanting it reversed so their lobes look normal again?!

But back on topic, do you rekon the girls are being made to grow up faster than the boys? I think so, but then, do boys ever grow up?!

SuziH, I meant to say in my other post that I am one of these uninformed ppl who thought padded bras on little girls = target for peadophiles. I found your comments useful. I don't know much about how a peadophile ticks, and I would have a very hard time learning about them because the topic brings up so much anger and disgust in me...

Eww yuck yeah simpson, people at my school have the huge earlobes, it's so gross!
Lol norman I like that ad
Eww brats are ew! Skanky things!
My 9 year old sister is sorta a snob I reckon, she's alright lol but she can be a snob. My 6 yr old sis isn't really but she can be bratty sometimes. But mainly the 5 and 6 yr olds still act like kids (in regards to ur post suzi) it's like 7 or 8 when they turn into snobs.

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But back on topic, do you rekon the girls are being made to grow up faster than the boys? I think so, but then, do boys ever grow up?!

SuziH, I meant to say in my other post that I am one of these uninformed ppl who thought padded bras on little girls = target for peadophiles. I found your comments useful. I don't know much about how a peadophile ticks, and I would have a very hard time learning about them because the topic brings up so much anger and disgust in me...

I read books on criminology like a sponge, I just soak them up. I believe that if we are to live safely and well in this world of ours we cannot go around with our heads in the sand, we must be well informed and well armed (with knowledge). I detest what paedophiles and sex abusers do. Someone very close to me was sexually abused by her Father and it took her 45 years after the long term sexual abuse ended for her to tell her family, including her husband. It answered a lot of questions as to why she had the personality she did.
The safer we can keep our children the better. We must be aware there are weirdos out there who WILL enjoy little girls dressing like tarts and being provocative. As I type this all I can see in my mind is JonBenet Ramsey singing on stage, a 6 year old looking and acting like an adult, having missed out on her childhood.

I watched my 'ex-bestfriend' (long story) dress her 3 and a half year old girl in knee-high boots, mini-skirts and tank-tops (just like she dressed), this was in 2000. The issue of over-sexualisastion of children has been around since Brittany Spears pranced around in a school uniform and pig-tails singing oops i did it again! I feel that the fashion industry - the usual suspect - is to blame here. This industry promotes eating disorders, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, and an ageless beauty that always seems to be a around the ripe old age of 13. Parents need to make their voices heard, boycott these merchants of sleaze and robbers of innocents!!
The choice is up to the parent at the end of the day!!

I think kids are dressing inapropriately a lot these days. Unfortunately they seem to be getting a lot less grown up when it comes to real adult stuff like accepting responsibility. This is leaving them very vunerable to falling prey to sick pervs and the like!