Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Clothing company offers push-up bras for 7-year-olds


Abercrombie and Fitch recently chose to offer push-up bras for girls as young as 7. the response on CNN from a professor: “It gets young girls to think about themselves in sexual ways before that’s developmentally appropriate. It sends out really bad signals to adult men about young girls being appropriate sexual objects, objects of sexual desire for young men.” Really? When DOES that become appropriate? At what age does it become developmentally appropriate to sexually objectify yourself for men? These people are upset about doing so with young girls, but why aren’t they upset about doing it with any girls? The question isn’t whether push-up bras are appropriate for girls at that age. The question is whether they’re appropriate for any women at all.

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