Some time you just want to F@^*$$$ dance!!!!!
Are our children’s childhood experiences being stolen by making them into a miniature adults? This is not something new. We’ve seen old paintings from the Victorian era where children also dress up as a miniature adults. The question is: As a parent, what is our role in this? We can’t always control how or what other people see or say about them. But we can certainly educate our children as to what they can say or see in our homes, all through open communication…
Interesting doc from National Film Board (Sexy Inc. Our Children Under Influence 0:35:26min), talking about over sexploitation of kids for the sake of consumerism. Tween market is a transition from kid to adult, introducing lip-gloss that the young girls have no need for by adding enticing flavors that appeal to them (cherry, vanilla…)
Would an adult wear this? Iif not, what makes it ok for a kid to wear it?
“Shopping gives meaning to our life? We have replaced religion, and spirituality with the shopping God” Young girls of 5/6 years old see sexy as an image, not sex. One point in the doc, one of group of girls from a workshop realized that most of the images she sees in teen magazines are not much different from that of a porno magazine. Se then gets very upset about how she sees these things as so normalized.
Sexy Inc. Our Children Under Influence
“Sophie Bissonnette’s documentary analyzes the hypersexualization of our environment and its noxious effects on young people. Psychologists, teachers and school nurses criticize the unhealthy culture surrounding our children, where marketing and advertising are targeting younger and younger audiences and bombarding them with sexual and sexist images. Sexy Inc. suggests various ways of countering hypersexualization and the eroticization of childhood and invites us to rally against this worrying phenomenon.”
Thank Mary for the tip
you may find these interesting:
New Trend: men & skin care (sexualization of men)
Over-sexed and over here: The ‘tarty’ Bratz Doll / Daily Mail UK
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- will an adult wear this? if not what make it ok for a kid to wear it?
Chanel #5 wanted to change their image from being a mother’s or grandma’s perfume. They reached back to a hit song from a decade before, from a commercial that played at the 1979 super-bowl.
1941 Inkspots hit ”I don’t want to set the World on Fire” directed by Ridley Scott.
Tapping into your feelings of yearning and sensuality makes the commercial linger in your memory long after seeing it. And Chanel has kept this fomula over the years and invested $100s of millions of dollars towards each of their commercials.
I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire- by The Ink Spots
I don’t want to set the world on fire
I just want to start a flame in your heart
In my heart I have but one desire
And that one is you
No other will do
I’ve lost all ambition for worldly acclaim
I just want to be the one you love
And with your admission that you feel the same
I’ll have reached the goal I’m dreaming of
Believe me
I don’t want to set the world on fire
I just want to start a flame in your hea
from Carnegie Hall for Rainforest Fund benefit / New York City
Sting, Blondie,Lady Gaga, Elton John, Shirley Bassey, Bruce Springsteen
and this titbit Elton John doing a rendition of “Material Girl/Like a Virgin” with gogo ballet dancers in the back!
thx awl for the tip
Christina Aguilera channelling Madonna [vogue / human nature] in her new vid “Not Myself Tonight”
Toronto Fashion Week FW 2010: Evan Biddell
On 04.30.10, In Fashion Week, youtube, by Adam
Toronto Fashion Week 2010- Lundstrom & Lundstrom Collection 2010 fall collection
Pink Tartan 2010 Fall Collection
Toronto Fashion Week FW 2010: Pink Tartan
