I
think the video paints an excellent portrayal of young girls these days. Young
girls starting at an extremely young age are being bombarded with
sexualization. To attempt to prevent this my mother decided not to show her
children Disney movies. In her opinion Disney portrays sexualized women with
"perfect" bodies who think they are only living to find their prince
and live happily ever after. While my mother attempted to shield my sister and
I from Disney it was nearly impossible to shield us from commercials, advertisements
and musicians who use their bodies to sell their products. For a parent who
wants to shield their child from these images, they would need to lock up their
children inside their home. This would be highly illegal so mothers’ only
choices are to inform their children that they are beautiful no matter
what.
On
the other hand there are mothers who push sexualization on their children. There
are mothers who enter their daughters in beauty pageants and dress them up to
look like they are older. Mothers are hypersexualizing their children instead
of trying to preserve their youth. It is such a hard world that I would like to
think that parents would want to keep their children as young as long as
possible and preserve their innocence, but instead their are some parents that
dress their children up like prostitutes in beauty pageants.
