7:17 pm - 09/17/2012
Actress Elizabeth Hurley calls her line of swimwear for girls "fun" on her website. But parents along with a child protection charity in the U.K. have had a different reaction -- they're accusing Hurley and her brand of sexualizing young girls.
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Elizabeth Hurley's Bikini Line For Young Girls Called 'Disturbing' And 'Inappropriate'
Actress Elizabeth Hurley calls her line of swimwear for girls "fun" on her website. But parents along with a child protection charity in the U.K. have had a different reaction -- they're accusing Hurley and her brand of sexualizing young girls.
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If you don't want your children wearing them, don't buy them.
I think if kids are getting "sexualized" you need to work on your fucked up brain. Not everything is about sex.
Of course my bikinis when I was a kid has bumble bees and little flowers, no leopard prints.
That's really naive. In terms of fashion design, the cut and embellishments on the clothes are supposed to be sexy. The last one is cut in a way that creates the illusion of a womanly figure, and the company even sells it for little girls who want to feel grown up. The first one has tie strings on it, which are probably going to be a hassle for kids, and are put on adult bikinis to make it a sexually enticing "easy access" garment. Of course there are one and two-piece swimwear that are meant to be innocent, but these swimsuits are designed with the intent of making a kid look and feel like a sexually mature grown up.
It's fucked up that people have been socialized to think a company making products like these for children is normal. There are padded bras and thongs for girls at this age group too, so maybe this stuff doesn't seem as bad. Being aware that children have sexuality created for them by outside forces isn't the same thing as viewing them as desirable sexual objects. Women are sexualized from cradle to grave, and people should protect young girls from that instead getting offended that this topic is brought up to begin with.
And as thebebz said on the first page, "seriously though if you look at a little girl in a cute pink bikini and think ~disturbing~ you are the one with the problem."
Slip Slop Slap! Do you have that in other countries?
(slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat)
And oh god that song is such an ear worm
even as an adult a bikini does not have to = sexual. they're just practical, cute, and tanlines suck. who are all these beached whales running around in one pieces until they're trying to get lucky?
no one would ever accuse a man wearing swim shorts of various lengths as trying to ~be sexy~ and attracting attention to his crotch.
Edited at 2012-09-18 05:39 pm (UTC)
Do they not see the hypocrisy
but women have their first sexual peak around that age... just most aren't really aware of it going on or able to identify it as a sexual peak. a lot of super young girls do weird little sexual things with their girl friends and by themselves because of this. i also think they don't really know what they mean when they say those things, my friends and i used to talk about wanting to have sex before we knew what sex was.
Exploring and learning about your body at 6 is great. Exploring and learning about your friend's bodies at 6 is also pretty normal.
The language of the article is vague, but wanting other people to consider you to be "sexy" at 6 is not the same as learning about your body. It should be self-interested, completely self absorbed, it should have nothing to do with other people's judgment of your body, or how that judgement affects how you see your body. You're still learning what your body means to YOU.
I don't think the article is saying little girls are playing doctor at age 6, as most children do, I think they're saying that little girls are realizing there are expectations on their bodies and they want to meet those expectations to be good, pretty, desirable, etc. From what I've seen, I agree, as I've seen girls as young as 8, 9, 10 with full fledged eating disorders.