Little Girls Who Dress Like Skanks Grow Up to Be Women Who Dress Like Skanks
April 17, 2008 by Kristen King
Filed under Business
And those skanky women dress inappropriately for work.
Well, I’m sorry, but it’s true. I’m sure Dana agrees with me — just ask her. (And we’re not the only ones.) Neither of us coined the term "prostitot" (though we’ve both used it) but I for one sincerely wish I had. No wonder young women are so utterly baffled about what to wear to the office these days. From early childhood their parents are dressing them like little whorelets. Of course they’re confused.
Personally, I think the sexualization of children is playing a big factor in the rise of teen and tween sexual activity, inappropriate relationships between students and teachers (in middle schools, high schools, and colleges), and inappropriate office relationships. I mean, duh. When you’re giving your 12-year-old a glittery baby tee emblazoned with "Boys Are Stupid" or "Your Boyfriend Thinks I’m Hot," you’re not empowering her — you’re teaching her that she’s (a) a billboard and (b) supposed to put people down to feel better about herself. You’re also teaching her that glitter and sex are attractive.
When you put a string bikini on your 8-year-old or a tube top and miniskirt on your toddler, when you teach her to dress provacatively and use her body to get what she wants, you’re training her to be a skank for life — and it is going to her her in the long run.
What do you think?
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I think that little girls should stop dressing like skank grown up woman because,its not there fault its their mothers fault for letting them dress like a skank hochie.I think it should be a law that girls who are little those little girls in Beauty Pagents they shouldnt wear all those clingy dresses,gungs of make-up like their mothers,and should not wear a crown as big as them.But anyways getting back on track,I think it should be a law if you are a very little girl you should not be allowed to wear all that maek-up and short clothes like short,shorts and little cling(cling cling to you realy tightly)shirts.
I am with you 1000% on this. I have a 4 year old son and if I have another child I’ll be scared silly if its a girl. I already know she’s going to think of me as the worst mum ever because I can’t stand the slutty kids fashion of today and there is no way in HELL any kid of mine is going to dressing like a 21 year old when she’s 11 and should still be knocking about in shorts and sneakers.
It’s not like fashion is a new thing. When I was a kid girls cared what other little girls thought of their clothes. They maybe didn’t care as young as they do now (I was horrified recently when a friend told me her 5 year old came home in tears because the other girls at pre-school told her she had fat legs and her dress was ugly), but fashion did exist. The difference now is it’s apparently okay to dress children like adults and the media is highlighting dumb, shallow trashy role models like Paris Hilton and saying this is what a successful woman looks like.
As a mother it is completely our job to show our girls and boys that yes, it’s nice to be seen as attractive, but it’s not going to get you a great career, fabulous friends, help you travel the world and find lasting, committed love. How many so called beautiful actresses and models today gain maintain a relationship for longer than a year or so? And we think they have it all!
Sorry to rant so much but this issue is one I think is taking women BACKWARDS not forwards.
Kelly
@Kelly – No need to apologize for “ranting” — this is a big deal, and it warrants strong opinions. I am AGHAST at your story about your friend’s 5-year-old daughter already being bullied by mean girls about how she looks. This is ridiculous! And the more we defend it, the more we propagate it.
You’re right to want to teach your son that being SEEN as attractive isn’t the answer to happiness. Keep up the good work.
One of the worst examples: http://www.thekidalog.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/18/prostitot_2.jpg
Hey Kristen! Shut up and stop leaving comments! Nobody loves you! So get over it!
Hey Kristen! SSHHH!!!! Noone cares so SSHHH!!!!!
@ass butt – Dude, it’s my blog. I respond to all comments when I can. Including ones like yours. Thanks for visiting. Nice name, btw.
@Brian – WOW. Who would let their child wear that??? And take a picture of it??? And put it online???????
Amen. Amen. Amen.
My own kid wanted one of those shirts. How hard is it for a parent to say “no”? Not hard at all. She whined and pitched a fit and guess what? It was still no. And she lived.
The problem is that too many parents these days are trying to live vicariously through their children. I have friends who do this – if they couldn’t have it as children, you can damn well bet their children have it, whether they want it or not.
But the trashy dressing – that’s a product of the ‘burbs. Where I grew up, the girls there are still dressing appropriately and not pushing too many boundaries. Here in suburban hell, the girls look like mini streetwalkers. And worse, they start somewhere around 9. My sister, who lives in another suburban area hundreds of miles away, reports that girls in her class (4th graders) are wearing makeup and “hoochie” clothes. Where is the parental authority? Parents have taken the no-corporal-punishment to mean no consequences or boundaries. Uh, no. You’re doing your child a huge disservice if you don’t set and expect your child to adhere to some boundaries.
End of soapbox. :)
Almost all of the girls didnt even know what the ‘pink’ on the butt of the clothes really means. But back in highschool seeing girls wearing mini-skirts and stuff like that didnt bother me a whole lot.
If a person wants to dress some way, let them. Don’t turn into Hitler and began shouting at people what they can or cannot do. It’s about freedom and the only people who are complianing are the ones who just think to much into it.
Kinda of like the people who think video games are strictly for kids and they teach them to kill people. Why is it when a kid shoots up a school they instantly go to the games he is playing. No one ever questions wether the students made fun of him or not. No one ever really questions the parents.
Oh well. Just let dumb people beleive in false things forever. Ignorance is bliss then.
Wow, Brian, we need to have those parents arrested for pandering. The shirt on that little girl was sick. Great article. I have a 8 year old girl, and I couldn’t agree more with everything you said! I am already a Mazi, and proud of it. My husband is even worse than I am. He has decreed no nail polish until my daughter is 13.
Work should be fun and women should wear what the want. If that provides some sexual frisson, like those shoes certainly do for most males, then so be it, – it makes the day go with a zing! We are more relaxed in the UK than you some of you Yanks, – are you from the Bible-Belt by any chance?
in almost every society, accept ours, you become a man at 15 and a women at 14. This is becoming more and more true around the world, and is spreading to our culture. Parents may be freaking out but i for one am not. If you look at history, girls married at an early age, then it got slowly but surly later, now it is getting earlier again. It’s just the way it goes. If 11 year olds fucking is what it takes to reverse the cycle again, then let it be. If any of you dads were teenagers again you would agree, this is not a bad thing.
I probably don’t have much room to talk since I’m 16, with no kids what so ever. My parents chose to send me to a private school where clothing really doesn’t matter. Words can’t describe how happy I am that they work hard enough to send me there!
Ever since I was a little kid, the girls would dress with very poor taste. (I consider a mini skirt and a t-shirt with a push up bra at 8 years old to be poor taste.) They got what they wanted. Attention. It’s a cry for attention and its the WRONG attention. I’ve now had to grow up in a world where the girls don’t wear underwear, or their jean shorts are so short their butt hangs out. No person in their right mind should want to dress like this! No girl should have to deal with the low self esteem issues that I’ve had to deal with because I refused to wear the string bikini, or the thong, or the short shorts that make a butt hang out. Guys these days treat women like a piece of meat. If the girl doesn’t hang it all out there, they move on to the girl who WILL give them what they want to see.
As a teenager, I thank the parents who agree with this article. By the time I graduate, I really don’t want to see where some of these people will end up. Though I wish them the best of luck, they’re kind of putting up a cement wall to what could have been a very very bright future.