Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
I actually think that girls should as they always used to start experimenting at about 13. It has always gone on with other 13 year olds but this sexualistion was gradual and contained a healthy fear of sex at the same time.
One should be developmentally ready to handle the information given them, so that one can exercise options in their life in a responsible manner. This isn't just with sex. Even education itself is pushing-pushing-pushing, teaching levels of math (eg) at earlier and earlier ages. Unless the child is developmentally ready for it, the information won't be learned, not really, not in the way we would like. The child will memorize it, but won't really internalize it. All the pushing does is rev-up the kid's brain out of balance with the rest of him/her (kinda like building huge biceps w/o working the rest of the body). Education doesn't teach to learn, it's just information dumping & testing. Why? Because of "global competition." Again, the wealthiest 1% taking care of itself, using the remaining 99% as cattle fodder.
Too much, too fast, and it will catch up with us, if not already.
Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
All true and education is important, but it needs to go hand in hand with responsibility. Social permissiveness has made things which simply should not be acceptable acceptable. {Kate Holman of the International Federation of Journalists, who has researched the sexualisation of children, has commented: "The way the media portray children has a profound impact on society's attitude to children and childhood, which also affects the way adults behave. Even the images children themselves see, especially of sex and violence, influence their expectation of their role in life.
"To counteract this, children from primary school upwards should undergo media literacy training to help decode the messages they receive and develop their critical ability. Additionally, the public should use their power of boycott to affect media policy. There is no doubt children are being exploited."}
Unless someone figures out how to make a profit from it, it won't happen. It's just another example of society speaking out of both sides of its mouth. For every dollar that goes into media literacy training (good label), $100 will be spent by Big Business on how to counteract it.
It's like what the recent "truth" commercial recently highlighted: something about how a cigarette company gave a million dollars to some charity, then spent $20 million telling everyone about it.
Yes, there is potentially a Juggernaut of power available to the public should it organzie and boycott. But first the public has to realize, as a whole, how it is being manipulated and brainwashed. And the Financial Elite will do everything in their power--using the media, entertainment, "infotainment"--to fight that.
Planet Earth should be renamed Planet Fiction.