I was standing in line at the Dunkin’ Donuts today, and there was a little girl in line ahead of me, with her daddy, I presume. She was probably around 8-10, and I’m fairly sure of this, as I’ve been around a lot of kids and can tell their age pretty well, I think.
Anyway, she was wearing this very pretty purple dress. But the whole material was gauzy thin, and as I looked and did a double-take, I realized I could quite clearly see her underwear! :eek: White with little floral things on it. In defense of her father, she was also wearing a little bra-like thing - of course, she had no breasts to speak of. But I could see every inch of her skin, too, nothing was hidden.
I looked again, and it was pretty obvious it wasn’t a swimsuit. It was obviously cotton. Anyway, it was very revealing and almost kind of slutty. After that I kind of just stared off into space.
The whole thing really skeeved me out. Am I wrong in thinking this was too much for a little girl to wear to the coffee shop at 8:30 AM? I mean, I know we’re sexualizing our daughters earlier and earlier, but this is an outfit I would not have worn at 17, or 18, when I was most interested in making guys notice me.
The other day I was working away from my office (power loss), and I was where parents were bringing kids in to register for school.
One mom showed up with her 14-15 year old daughter. The girl was wearing the shortest pair of denim cut-offs you’ve ever seen - top to bottom they were no more than 4 inches long. I could see plainly the inside curve of her butt, and they were riding so low at the top I could see what was clearly the top strap of a thong.
Full make up, and a tied up belly button flaunting skimpy little blouse completed the junior slut outfit.
Speaking as the father of a little girl, I think I can say that the last thing dads want to do is sexualize their daughters. If anything, we (speaking very broadly) tend to want to de-emphasize it. I’d chalk it up to dad not realizing that his daughter needed a slip.
As to why (if?) mother’s tend to go along with daughter’s wearing Junior Slut attire - I have no idea.
I’ll second that-- since I’m on night shift, our entire place can be quite dark in the early morning hours.
That and… how many guys actually know that WHITE undies are very visible under thin fabrics, while flesh-toned or medium colors are not? (Also to be fair, the five-packs of undies I buy for Smallchild only come in white with various accents; one package had ONE lavender pair.)
I’ll give the dad the benefit of the doubt; although my dad had no problem in deciding what was too *revealing * to wear, he certainly didn’t know how to dress me tastefully. (Plaid skirt & striped sweater in fourth grade. I kid you not. It took me months to live it down.)
But still, once he went out, I would have thought he would have noticed and gone WTF? And *someone * had to buy that thing for her, no?
At least they’re teenagers. You should have seen this one small (thankfully small) group of 5th-grade girls at my son’s elementary school last year. Short skirts, Daisy Duke shorts, platform strappy sandals and makeup. Not a lot, mind you, but still… shiny, glittery lip gloss, eyeshadow, a bit of blush and mascara. A couple of them had elaborate hair styles held in place with glitter hairspray that I just know mom had a hand in helping create.
FWIW… when I was in Moscow, a lot of women would wear a transparent or eyelet shirt that clearly showed their bras. Some of these women were obviously not out to attract–I guess it is just okay to do that there. After all, they are technically covered, and in general women there seemed less interested in finding exactly the right undergarments (or maybe unable to afford them). Knee-high nylons with short skirts was common also.
So maybe it was just a cultural thing. Otherwise, I agree that the dad was either oblivious to the problem or didn’t realize there was one until too late.
Yesterday I had to ask “uh, who belongs to the half-naked girl in the file room?”
Apparently, she is the daughter of one of the ladies on the floor. I vaguely recall she ought to be about 11. Puberty has come to visit with a vengeance…
The child was wearing a skin tight spagetti strap half-tank which clearly showed both her bra and rather pudgy belly, and tight jeans that her hips and belly flowed over. Oh, and visible thong. Can’t leave that out.
To come and work at her mother’s place of employment.
I couldn’t believe it. I worked for my dad’s company when I was younger, and if I had even dreamed of turning up in jeans he would have smacked me.
Maybe mom was slutlet when she was little and sees nothing wrong with the daughter puttin’ it out on display.
sexualized little girls are disturbing at so many levels. And I’ve gotten old enough to see early teens as little girls. “So, you looking forward to junior high?” “I’m 15!” “Oh.”
The little girl across the street, is 10. Last weekend, her dad was having a cookout, and she was playing in the front yard, wearing only her panties. :eek: She was playing with some kind of water toy and getting soaked. Her dad could be clueless about how inapropriate it was. But I can’t believe one of his guests didn’t point it out.
That’s what you get for wearing your official 007 X-ray specs to look at little girls.
Seriously I think this shows bad judgement on someone’s part though it probably wasn’t intentional. There is already far too much sexualizing of children and all of it from Jean Benet Ramsey to tweens who dress like street whores it’s all goddamn creepy.
It can be funny too. On a recent episode of The Family Guy the mother was trying to do a makover for her daughter and found some t-shirts
Lois: Look, this shirt has “slut” written in glitter. Ooh, this one says “porn star.” How about “sperm dumpster.”
Meg: Just give me the one that says sperm dumpster.
I fear there is a rather thin line between fiction and reality as I’ve seen the shirt that says porn star.
And I’ll never get exactly why everything has to be three sizes too small. I see it on girls of all sizes from tiny to chubby and everything in between. The norm seems to be wearing pants so tight whatever flesh they have bulges over the top. Not a good look for anyone.
