Here's the picture I ended up getting:
Today, I was surfing the web and found some absolutely appalling things. Specifically, articles on the incredibly revealing and simply inappropriate things parents are allowing their children to wear these days. Frankly, I'm not a parent--I'm a child myself in many ways--but it doesn't stop these things from disgusting me. Whatever happened to parental responsibility?
One example is this prom dress. It's rather revealing, so I won't post up the actual picture but you get the point. It's shocking, isn't it? That dress was shot with the model wearing it backwards. (Perhaps for shock purposes?) Here's the actual dress--and it's not much better.
The dress is designed to fit girls as young as 14 or 15. Even the design company's CEO admitted that he wouldn't dream of letting his own daughter wear it but, "from a businessman's perspective", he's still willing to market it. It's currently one of the top 20 prom dress designs in America.
I thought that would be the extent of these kinds of things. Apparently, it's not.
Abercrombie and Fitch recently released child thongs. Yes, you heard right. Child thongs. Thongs with phrases like "eye candy" and "wink wink" printed on them! And they fit children within the age range of 8 to 10 perfectly.
According to the company's spokeperson, Hampton Carney, "It's cute and sweet and fun." Ridiculous.
Want more soul-rotting filth? Why not look up "Little Miss Hooters" and "pimp and ho child costumes"?
Little Miss Hooters:
The contest is for girls 5 and under, and will require they be dressed in little orange spandex shorts, and a tied up Hooters t-shirt.Pimp and Ho Costumes:
2 comments:
It goes further than parental responsibly. In fact, the word responsibility means very little in today's North American society. It stretches from kids refusing to accept responsibility for their actions in schools to adults trying to squirm their way out of their actions in our legal system. It's not like our government is much help either: politicians get away with things without any journalist noticing. What we need is for responsibility to enter our mindset again. We have choices and we freely choose how to proceed. People should realize that those actions are not determined by environmental factors or external pressure, but by their own doing.
And about your photo essay and its related topic, even though your evidence points to parents who are unfit to parent, I'm sure for the years to come, the quality of parenthood will fall. With the culmination of a media overtly covered with sexual images and parents who don't control their own kids who in turn become parents after a night of 'fun', who knows what "parents" will turn into?
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