I’m sure everybody remembers this:
Aww, that’s such a romantic pict–! hmm, wait. Isn’t that guy about twenty years older than that barely pubescent girl..? I mean, I can see some serious crepe-like flesh going on under that manly-man jawline there–oh, well, it’s not like even the most superficial perusal of internet porn won’t immediately inform you that “barely legal” is an overwhelmingly common male fanta–uh, wait again. Is that hairy old dude that sweet little sex kitten is being manfully embraced by HER DAD–?
Now, now, maybe I’m overreacting. Maybe this is really meant to portray the pure innocence and beauty of the father-daughter bond, and I just have a dirty, corrupt mind. I’m sure another picture from the very same photo shoot will absolutely clear up any doubt I could possibly have about the theme of this particular series of Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus publicity photos–
Yep, that definitely cleared that up.
But this is old news! The new news is that the sexualization of children shown above is apparently way, way too subtle. The message has not been gotten across, dammit! And Billy Ray Cyrus clearly ain’t gonna let that happen. You know, he has another daughter, and to eliminate the confusing nature of using the daughter that might have actually entered puberty sometime around the date of the photo shoot, this one is clearly nowhere near even the beginnings of sexual maturation.
Because 9-year-olds need a sexy line of lingerie!
..little 9-year-old Noah Cyrus is set to become a lingerie model.
She’ll be teaming up with her pint-sized best friend Emily Grace to launch a children’s lingerie collection for ‘Ohh! La, La! Couture’.
The company’s website describes The Emily Grace Collection as having a “trendy, sweet, yet edgy feel, reminiscent of Emily’s true personality.”
Emily’s collection will appeal not just to little girls – the line also has an exclusive Teen Collection available to a size 14.
Goodness, I suspect you’re right about that. This collection won’t just appeal to little girls.
[...] Representations of Sex (1): Time to Hurl (PAB) February 14, 2010 Deanna McGaughey-Summers Leave a comment Go to comments Time to Hurl [...]
The fact that grown men have fetish’s and inappropriate sexual fantasies and inretaction with minor girls is afact of the American experience. The rate of pedphelia and pornography is astonishing and the taboo is a long way from being eradicated or even addressed on a criminal level with any signifiacnt meaning. With the rise of the internet as well as human traficking and less restrictions overseas, child rape and exploitation at the hands of heterosexual white males is at an all time high. The fact that Billy Ray is pimping his daughters out and using the sexuality of his daughters as a form of exchange just reinforces the problem. There is no protection for these children and in a large sense a lot of the socialization in the sexual sense has these girls playing out the scripts. Its alarming to me and the issue is so complex that it raises issues on so many levels. The ability to make money and a media that pushes pubescent sex, the double-standard in the gender behavior expectation, and the lack of efficient or effective policing or accountability in a legal sense all perpetuate the problem in my opinion.