Last week, I was trying to finish a photojournalism assignment to create a one-photo documentary essay. I chose the social issue of the declining age of innocence in today's youth: they are being exposed to sex, drugs, and violence at ages that used to be absolutely unacceptable for exposure to these things.
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:
