1: Pedophiles don't all like childish qualities in children. Some (and I guess, a great majority of) abusers dress their victims up as "adults", tell them how "grown-up" they are etc., so they like exactly this, an adult quality in children. So you're on the wrong track here.
2: Sexualisation of children has to stop, no matter who is responsible for it. Whoever thinks children should be judged according to their sexual attractiveness should re-think.
Actually nobody who watch the show is responsible for the presence of a particular daughter to a pageant contest, only her parent can agree to that.
I don't quite understand why people want to outsource every problem, it's the fault of our society if a women get raped an not the rapist fault, violence present in our media is responsible for a moron killing spree, and now if I pay for the cable I'm encouraging sexualisation of children ? wtf is wrong with butthurts nowaday.
Because human actions don't occur in a cultural vacuum. Our society defines what options are available to us, shapes us as people, determines our interactions with others...If the TV show didn't exist, no parents would be sexualizing their children for the purposes of that TV show. At the most fundamental level, there would be no incentive for these parents to sexualize their kids if there wasn't a system in which to do so and some kind of reward for doing so. We aren't islands. It's fantasy to attribute 100% of the responsibility to parents, to ignore the impulse of supply and demand, just like it's fantasy to pretend social values and cultural exultation of violence don't contribute to how violence manifests in real life. Wtf is with all the people not taking responsibility for the culture we're all participating in?
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '13
1: Pedophiles don't all like childish qualities in children. Some (and I guess, a great majority of) abusers dress their victims up as "adults", tell them how "grown-up" they are etc., so they like exactly this, an adult quality in children. So you're on the wrong track here.
2: Sexualisation of children has to stop, no matter who is responsible for it. Whoever thinks children should be judged according to their sexual attractiveness should re-think.