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Saturday, December 30, 2006


The whorification of adolescent girls continues unabated.
But my parental brain rebels. Suburban parents dote on and hover over their children, micromanaging their appointments and shielding them in helmets, kneepads and thick layers of S.U.V. steel. But they allow the culture of boy-toy sexuality to bore unchecked into their little ones’ ears and eyeballs, displacing their nimble and growing brains and impoverishing the sense of wider possibilities in life.

There is no reason adulthood should be a low plateau we all clamber onto around age 10. And it’s a cramped vision of girlhood that enshrines sexual allure as the best or only form of power and esteem.
You'll never go broke writing about "these kids today," or "back in my day. . . " But I think this guy is on to something. It's quite fascinating that parents want to assist their daughter's sex lives before they can even drive.



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