I cannot recall what this poster is advertising. It is one of those huge billboards on the side of the road. It has a a young woman, in sexy pose, clothes not done up properly. What is wrong with that?
Oh, the fact that she is wearing a school uniform!!!!
It is 2008. How can adverts like this still be used? In fact, one often sees adult women dressed provocatively in girls school uniform in newspapers and magazines or on tv.
WHY? Are those responsible really so thick they do not see the clear inference?
Or is it that we, the general public, do not care enough to complain and have these offensive ads/pictures removed?
When are people going to get it through their thick heads that children are not there to be sexualised?
A few years ago I recall an email war over the remake of the film Lolita with Jeremy Irons. I was astounded at the number of people, mainly men but not all, who blamed Lolita!
No matter how provocative a girl or boy is towards an adult, even if they make it clear they want sex, it is up to the adult to SAY NO!!!! If the adult doesn't, they are guilty of abuse. It really is that simple.
There is a situation like this going on in Neighbours right now where a female student is laying it on heavy with a teacher who she is in love with. The teacher has been grossly criminal in that he has allowed himself to give in to her. Yes, she is doing the running. However, he is the adult and the one with the power and no matter what this girl does, it is his duty to SAY NO!!!!
I'm not willing to let this go...
-
Knitting is still going on, but I've lost of bit of the mojo. It's OK I
always get it back and I highly doubt it won't this time as well. I am
t...
5 months ago
6 comments:
I wonder if you saw this story a few weeks ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7222008.stm
It's amazing that a firm the size of Woolworths, and the number of people who'd seen that ad, couldn't work out that the name 'Lolita' wasn't appropriate. Quite depressing, really!
I was also shocked when this came up in a discussion a few years ago. I had recently read Lolita myself, and understood it as an expose of the weird thinking necessary to convince himself that he had the right to do what he did. Even his description of Lolita as provocative seemed to me more his interpretation than objective fact. Maybe it is manthink to take things like this at face value, but one of the people discussing the book is a published author, and even he accepted the first-person description as objective. I mean, when the whole thing is being told by the bad guy, whose version do you think you are getting?
What distressed me most was that the professional author missed this. Does this mean you have to have understood the situation already in order to understand the book? To me that would mean that the book fails.
Elizabeth in Norway (sock knitter)
Well, for how many millennium have women been blamed for being raped? ("She was asking for it?") It's not so hard to see how children can be blamed, too.
It's appalling and only, it seems, a small percentage of the population can see how dangerous it is.
Years ago someone I knew tried to rationalize having sex with a 13 year-old child when he was 18 or 19 by describing how she jumped in his lap and wiggled, wanted it, and knew exactly what she was doing.
I told him bluntly that what he was describing was how he raped a child who had been molested prior to him, and trained that this was how to get attention and love.
Asshole.
I missed this post this morning, Colin. I agree. What's more, there are people who seem to think it's cute to dress up their little girls as tiny, sleazy adults. My grand niece is doing this with her daughter. The child is 9. She dressed her up as a scantily clad gypsy belly dancer for a public event a few weeks ago, complete with overdone makeup and bejeweled navel. Now, tell me: What message does this convey, both publicly and to the little girl? This little girl's attitude is what I remember girls' attitudes to be when they were 15 and 16, not 9! Now, I wonder why?
I don't understand that thinking, either. I wasn't raised to think that way! Bottom line - when adults want sex, they know what they're talking about. When children APPEAR to want sex, they know not what they are doing.
So, the adult has to act like a decent adult. Children are to be protected, not used.
Aarrgghh!!!
Tell them that in some of southeast asia!
Love the sock recipe!
Joan
Post a Comment