"If you're rich, I'm single."

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

This was the slogan I saw on a t-shirt being worn by a female while I was out shopping earlier this afternoon.

So why do I mention this, you ask? Because the female wearing said t-shirt couldn't have been any older than 10.

[McGoddess09]

O.O

uuuuummmmmm.....woooowwww.

[NightWatch]

It creeps me out that I see girls 8-12 years old nowadays who actually look sexy. Like, makeup, hair done all up, tight lowride jeans, or mini skirts... teeny tiny belly shirts. If they were 18, they could be every guys wet dream. But they don't even have boobs yet, and think they're sexy. They don't act like little kids who got permission from mom to get dressed up. They actually act like slutty highschool girls. What really grosses me out is watching the dudes who are checking them out.

[jjllbb]

I worked in the children's department of a popular retail store for a few years and I watched the standards for kids clothes fall further and further as each year passed.

I gave a death stare to every mother who came to my register handing me the little booty shorts with words like "hottie" and "sexy" written on the rear, or the halter tops with cinching to imitate cleavage or breast shape, or t-shirts with similarly grotesque phrases like "baby momma".

[JoitheArtist]

I REALLY hate the whole prostitot thing. REALLY hate it. For one thing, let the damn kids be kids! Secondly, aren't we supposed to be moving away from the whole body-image-defines-everything mentality?

[Food Lady]

The only people those outfits (on preteens) appeal to are pedophiles.

I didn't wear revealing tops when I was that age, and I don't now (well, not intentionally).

[bunnyboy]

The only people those outfits (on preteens) appeal to are pedophiles.

I didn't wear revealing tops when I was that age, and I don't now (well, not intentionally).

I've said it before and I'll say it again, they really need to find these designers and see if they AREN'T exactly that.

[FenigDurak]

I saw a three year old on the bus the other day wearing a pair of mules with acrylic heels. She was having the hardest time just walking to her seat. I can't even begin to think of all the foot and let problems that little girl is developing.

<geezer alert> I was told specifically that I was not allowed heels until I had the chest to balance them out (by the time I had the chest, I was too tomboy for them) and no dangle earrings until middle school (same tom boy defense). I had one pair of dangle earrings that were bought for a wedding, but they were extremely light.</geezer alert>

[ShinyGreenApple]

My CNA instructor gets her stepdaughter every weekend, and she said that more than once she'd be getting the 5 year old dressed for bed and discover she was wearing lacy boy short underwear with satin ribbons and bows going down the legs, and more than once the girl had a bra on, too. She and her husband (the kid's father, of course) would throw them out. It's usually a result of the mother wanting to raise a 'best friend' instead of a child.

[blas]

I spent most of my childhood looking like a little boy, no thanks to my grandmother's idea one day she babysat me to give me a Depression era kid's haircut (read: bowl cut), and having parents too poor to buy new clothes, I mostly had to wear my (male) cousin's hand me downs, coming from a huge extended family with way more males than females. The rare occasion I got "new" clothes, they were from the local secondhand stores or Wal-Mart, and this was before Wal-Mart had cute girls' clothes.

Then when I started developing and becoming a little lady, my parents had guidelines for what I wore. They knew I was going to end up very chesty and curvacious like my mother, so they knew there was no way to hide my assets, and it would just make me an insecure person to try to hide them, but I had to wear clothes to enchance and play up my figure, without looking too much older or trashy or slutty. That was a big line to cross....I could wear lower cut shirts and tank tops and skirts, but nothing trashy and nasty.

And I've kept that same look ever since. I always dress for my shape, but I never try to look like a cheap $5 truck stop whore.

[Megg]

Those poor babies. I hate parents who tart their little girls up, those girls will grow up with such a warped view of reality.

[One-Fang]

I never try to look like a cheap $5 truck stop whore.

I've always wondered why anybody would want to. Clearly they do. But why? .... ? Pass.

[Kal]

I always wonder what adults wearing playboy things are thinking. After a long discussion with a coworker once we came to the conclusion that they're either trying to say "I'm attractive enough that people'll pay to see me naked" or "My ambition in life is to take all all my clothes off and be photographed". Fair enough I suppose in adults, if more than a little deluded.

This one though really worries me.
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/...hese-days.html
Kind of reminds me of one of my wife's cousins too, decorated her room with playboy logos from age 11 onwards.

[JoitheArtist]

There's a really excellent book that addresses this topic: Female Chauvinist Pigs, by Ariel Levy.

I highly recommend it!

[One-Fang]

Well, with Playboy, I've seen the bunny on everything from earrings to purses. I suppose little girls look at it and go "oooo bunny!" in much the same way Hello Kitty is just "cute". That's a kitty. This is a bunny. It's so kyewt!!

If the child hasn't had the meaning explained, and mom and dad skirt that, but the child dearly wants a "bunny" cake ... whaddya do?

At least, that's the only explanation I can think of.