Letter: For heaven’s sake put them away, dear
Monday 20th June 2011, 9:47AM BST.
Letter: I agree with the campaign to protect young children against over sexualisation at a very young age. Young children are forced to grow up far too soon these days.
It seems that young boys, and I presume girls, can be sold a soft porn mag in the guise of a newspaper and teenage magaziness have articles and photos of a sexual nature.
Lads' mags: in-no-way suggesting that women are just sex objects to be leered at
Some tabloids publish topless models which young boys ogle and it gives them the impression that young girls are merely sexual objects. Then some girls think that Katie Price is a good role model, and what is she known best for? Displaying her silicone-enhanced boobs and falling out of taxis drunk.
Singers like Lady Gaga and Rihanna set a very bad example to young children, cavorting about on stage half-naked in erotic sexual poses etc.
I was walking along Aston Street recently and I saw two teenage girls walking towards school wearing white blouses and the shortest, tightest miniskirts I have ever seen schoolgirls wear.
They came down from the direction of the railway station, so I presume they are not local girls.
Some schools have a ruling that skirts should be worn just above the knee, and I recall a girl wearing shorts when I went to school in the 1950s but at least they did not reveal their underwear when sitting down.
I blame the parents more than the schools for allowing young girls to dress in a provocative way and not only at school.
Some firms have been selling padded bras and bikinis for very young girls and it makes you wonder what happened to the age of innocence?
Ray Williams
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It’s called fashion Ray. Youngsters choose to wear these clothes, nobody forces them to.
As for that “lady ga-ga” creature, well, if you think that picture of her is sexy then I feel sorry for you. She looks as though she is about to throw up.
Move on Ray, and if you don’t approve of what the youngsters wear,,,,DON”T LOOK.
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I completely agree with you. It was getting worse when I was at school in the 1990s, but now I see little girls of 5 or 6 wearing make up – and real make up, not the sugary tasting ‘lipstick’ that we used to have.
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Love the caption on the first photo!!
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All children seem to have to grow up to soon these days for everything from when they attend primary school, to being a little more convenient for the impatient parent who wants their free life style pre children back.
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Following Primark’s decision to withdraw their range of ‘inappropriate’ summer-wear for young girls their exotic range for animals has also come in for criticism. Therefore I felt I had to return the push-up bra for my snake and my cat’s thong as the local wildlife was getting a bit too pervy whenever they went out.
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Brilliant comment!! Thank you for the chuckle!!
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My mother was fortunate to be in the book about what did you do in the war by Mavis Nicholson. In that book Mavis interviewed Anne Shelton who told her story and by and large was a bit younger than the other women in the book.Her lovely voice was discovered at the age of 12 and so she had to wear her sister’s make up to make her look older and consequently became a well loved icon of WW11. She sadly, unexpectedly died literally a fortnight after being interviewed by Mavis for the book.
All this children growing up too soon these days is false. If you look back children were caring for younger siblings from a very young age and were often glad to go to work at fourteen to escape from the responsibilities of large families.
When I was at school in the 1960s in London we used to roll our skirts up at the waist as they do today although when I started grammar school in Birmingham our uniforms were gymslips of the same style worn in the 1930s!
With the internet, media, TV there is a lot more exposure to sex but then there is also a lot less secrecy,more education,less discrimination (you couldn’t drive a car in the 1960s, 70s as a woman without being insulted)and less religious indoctrination regarding women being put on this planet for sex and babies.
Children get their education from observing family dynamics at an early age and if there is respect for one another then they will have a better chance of growing up open minded but assertive about their own and others rights.
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A world where padded bras for pre-pubescent girls are for sale is not a world to be proud of and thus I wholeheartedly support the government taking a strong line on the matter.
Their acknowledgement that *choice* alone is not enough, that the market cannot be left to it’s own devices & that government must step in and act parentally to protect society is encouraging.
I trust the governments conversion to this stance will soon be wide-spread across all of their policies.
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A valid topic but the finger should not be pointed at Lady Gaga. She is actually is hugely positive role model for young women and young people in general. She speaks out against bullying, homophobia and encourages youngsters to be themselves, no matter what others may say.
I was appalled by Nicole Sherzinger’s recent performances on (i think) Britain’s Got Talent. Here is a sample of the lyrics from the song she performed on this family show…
“Me like the way that he put it on me
Me like the way that he push up on me
Me like the way that he goin’ down down down down down”
She goes on…
“I like the way that you talk dirty
Don’t wash your mouth I I like it dirty”
Ultimately however, responsible parenting can assert control over all these outside influences.
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Good of the Shropshire Star to remind us what the front cover of Nuts looks like.
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Agree. Mystified. Did someone think we might not have got the message from the first image? Andrew?
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This stuff makes so much profit for shareholders and disinsterested hand-off laissez-faire governments aren’t really interested.
Let’s ask who the investors are and remind them they’re putting their names to make these products that offend people.
OK, much is in the East and we can only influence it by changes in the driver of fashions. eg not you!
Colin D . these producers are like drug dealers, they are targeting (not just selling) but targetting specifically children. They use bothering power to short-circuit if possible by-pass parental filtering. They don’t care what it does to the children, they move on the next lower age group. Thats how it is.
Parents trust still far too much and know still too little about the latest ‘cool’ thing that kids are into. Rebellion, whatever happened to that – (well what do you have?) it’s looking at what you don’t want to them to look at now.
The future of teenage (and now sub-teenage) rebellion? Who knows but you won’t like it.
It’s the predictable/eventual result of commercial-individualism – the destruction of families.
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Pardon????????????
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I think he said “Blessed are the Cheesemakers”.
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Of course, how stupid of me. Thanks Mark.
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Aha, what’s so special about the cheesemakers?
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I think he’s referring to any manufacturer of dairy products.
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“There’s no pleasing some people”
.. splitters!
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For crying out loud!!!
How about teaching children right from wrong instead of blaming Lady Gaga and Rhianna instead? Its always someone elses fault isn’t it?
Mr Williams, I suggest you sit down and watch a film called South Park the Movie and then take a good hard look at yourself!!!
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I cant see what the fuss is about we are all grown up now. When we were teenagers I remember Relax Frankie goes to Hollywood causing a storm and the classic Never Mind the B”””’ by the Sex Pistols is this really any worse than it was back then?
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Eva, What a beautiful voice Anne Shelton had,I remember her well in the 1950s.” Come to the station,jump on the train, March at the double, down lovers lane.!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonderful days. Us lads used to watch the girls doing PT, all the girls wearing the customary navy blue cotton nickers with their gymslips tucked in them, I can’t guess what they wear today.
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John writes – “Us lads used to watch the girls doing PT, all the girls wearing the customary navy blue cotton nickers with their gymslips tucked in them, I can’t guess what they wear today”
Well, today, they’ll be in their 60′s – 70′s. They’ll mostly be wearing big pants!
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Superstar Tradesman. I know one that does not wear big pants.Sorry but I meant the children of today.
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It helps to educate young people about everything, not to shy them away from it! if you force them not to wear these clothes they’ll change out of them behind your back. “smoking behind the bike sheds?” the french allow their young children to drink wine from an early age and I believe they have less of an alcohol problem with young people than we do?.yes children will always push boundreys you just have to educate them and hope you do it well enough for then to realise what they are doing?.
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