I saw this video on The Diaper Diaries and had to put it up here as well. I have been trying to write a post about this subject for a long time, but this video illustrates the problem better than I ever could.
Take a look.
So what do you think? What can we do?
that was really cool freak out save our girls downright scary right on the money…
What can we do?
One word. Convents.
You really think the Flying Nun was having these kinds of issues? Not with that hat, she wasn’t…..
You know, you would think that as a mother of a little boy, I wouldn’t have to think about it, but I will. I mean, he’s being bombarded with the same images that these little girls are, and I don’t want him to buy into it anymore than you want your girls to. What can be done about it? Not much, I suspect. All we can do is teach them at home how much they are valued for who they are, not what they look like, and encourage them to treat others with the same respect. How well that works, only time will tell.
Great post! Very thought provoking!
Pray. Guard their eyes. Praise them for how they are made perfectly. Teach them good health/eating habits. Have their DADDY’s tell them regularly (DAILY) how beautiful they are. It’s a TALL order. We have alot to do…..
wow – very thought-provoking and downright frightening. i think we need to keep the lines of communication open as much as possible and limit their tv viewing while they are young. i prefer pbs because at least there is no commercials. but this really is frightening because these messages are everywhere.
amy
btw, i swear i recall someone posting about the dove campaign for real beauty lately, but i can’t remember what they said. i’ll have to see if i can jog my memory.
here’s another powerful video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li3mg1GrKe0
i think these are good messages that dove is getting out, but i don’t trust them entirely since they are really just disguised marketing campaigns.
also i found this out about dove
(from http://www.indiatogether.org/2003/may/chi-cropped.htm):
Both Hindustan Lever Ltd., the Indian subsidiary of British-Dutch multinational company Unilever[owners of Dove], as well as the American multinational Monsanto are making use of hazardous forms of child labour in cotton seed production in India on a large scale, the India Committee of the Netherlands reports. An estimated 25,000 children, mostly girls, work an average of ten to thirteen hours a day for Hindustan Lever, while around 17,000 children work for Monsanto and its Indian subsidiary Mahyco. These children get no education, earn less than Rs.20 a day and are exposed to poisonous pesticides like Endosulphan during their work. More than 11,000 children work under similar conditions for the multinationals Syngenta (Swiss), Advanta (Dutch-British) and Proagro (owned by Bayer of Germany).
no cool. 🙁
WOW! That was amazing. I’ve never seen it so well illustrated. Now, if only the industry would see what they are doing to our daughters and feel guilty (gasp!) enough about it to stop. I know that won’t ever happen, but I sure wish that it would. For now, we don’t watch commercial television which eliminates alot of the exposure to that kind of material.