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May 22, 2008
Phoning it In Today
Thought I'd share this great article from Salon.com on the effect of media and early sexualization of girls. It's an interview with M. Gigi Durham, author of "The Lolita Effect" and talks about the disturbing trend towards younger and younger sexualization of girls. I have to read this book; the author is a self-declared "pro-sex" feminist and she talks about this tension, as a parent, between totally not being a prude but being profoundly uncomfortable with the sort of voyeuristic, one-dimensional sexuality being pushed on younger and younger girls, as well as the terrible mixed message of that ubiquitous image coupled with the emphasis on abstinence-only sex ed.
It's so hard to be the mommy of a little girl. And one of the really ironic, disturbing things is that in the third-party generated advertising links at the bottom of the article is a link for (can't wait to see the blog hits I get off this) "find drunk teens." Not cool people, not cool.