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The market is eating our children : Comments

By Emma Rush, published 16/2/2010

Time for government to set standards for broadcasters, publishers, advertisers, retailers and manufacturers to prevent child sexualisation.

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Good article Emma- what annoys me is the solution is ridiculously easy and practically fits under existing regulations:

As we already have panels evaluate content in both television shows and commercials for sexual or mature content and restrict them to certain times of the day- we simply rewrite that criteria slightly for these analyzers to work on.

If the companies selling this rubbish loose some profits- too bad, they deserve it.
Posted by King Hazza, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 6:12:40 PM
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Pre-schoolers Jack and Jill were playing and Jack whispers to Jill, "Mum found a used condom on the patio this morning".
Jill looks a bit embarrassed, fiddles for a moment then asks, "What's a patio?"

Perhaps it's the Wiggles Emma. I mean "hot potato" is halfway to "hot mama" - made worse by the violent thumping of cute little pudgy fists to train them for the Corporatisation of the "cell-phone-video-playground-fight-industry".

Their video, "Dr. Knicker Bocker": perverse sexualised allusions to underwear with the connotation of nakedness - somewhere in there, I bet. Nekkid children!? Oh no!

And, of course, er... bockers. Dunno what they are, but this Corporate Bockerism of Children must stop. And just what do we "wiggle"? Well! I'm not even going there. Such Corporo-sexuo-music-pedophilia must also stop.

It's a Gateway-Wiggle to Night Club bashings and Big Day Out drug taking, ACDC noise, wild sex and videoed violence. Oh! Tattoos also - one of those Wigglers has tattoos. Quick - cover thy children in loin cloth and take thee to Church!

What next Emma? Attachment Parenting until post puberty. Have a lentil and a lie down on your organic fibered mat under your energy Pyramid.

The real threat here is the constant thrust from the religious right and the bloody right to control community deportment. Referencing USA research is the tell-tale Christo-morality obsessed xenocentrism one expects from our moral police in their desperate bid to force panic onto a public already reeling under "art=porn", "independence=deviance", "leisure=violence".

Why reinvent the wheel Emma? - "Porn's Incredible Powers".
http://libertus.net/censor/rdocs/candle3.html#incredible

Shown to be gross moral panic.

Rush is immersed in the narrow singularity of this "focus group" mentality, and we read naught but the hyping of a baseless fear that began with "stranger danger", and is culminating by attacking the very lifestyle children were forced into initially.

Keep 'em home and safe. Oh no! They play computer games that aren't safe. Keep em away from computer games. Oh my, they THINK stuff.

Perfect! Convince Aussies they must control all thought AND behaviour and the cycle is complete.

Ban Children. It's our only hope.
Posted by Firesnake, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 6:57:38 AM
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isabelberners

I have read Emma's posts, and yours, Barbara's, Melinda's and those of the pro censorship movement, and am more than aware of the conservative agenda.

If freedom of expresson was compared to a salami, the conservatives are slowly slicing away way beyond what what the law requires, and deep into the area of sanitizing all thought.

These slices include the "the right not to be offended". You can offend straight white males, but not women, children, minorities, etc. People are being stood down for not being politically correct.

Australia already has one of the most repressive censorship regimes in the western world, and is racing far into the lead.

To quote Mel Brookes acting as Hitler,
"why does everyone hate me? All I want is peace, peace, peace.
A little piece of Poland, a little piece of France ......"
Posted by Shadow Minister, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 11:12:47 AM
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Another major consideration to consider, I just realized, is trying to explain to certain morons who think this is some kind of "Christian" style "oh no kids can't know about sex" issue, that it's actually a different issue more along the lines of selling and promoting a gratifying premature-sex, drugs, peer-pressure culture etc to children, and find was to differentiate the issues and explain it to the audiences who don't get it.
Posted by King Hazza, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 12:18:17 PM
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Well said Hazza.

There are many atheists out there who are concerned about the growing sexualisation of children. Having had daughters I along with many friends, found it almost an uphill battle, although generally both parents and teens survived the ride relatively unscathed. A close friend with a boy and a girl worries about not only the effects on her daughter but on her son, the pressures on boys are just as great to buy into the raunch culture.

The influence of the media is stronger than people realise, coupled with peer pressure, especially during the teenage years. For those that think media has no effect just ask a any company if the use of marketing and media is worth the millions of dollars spent on it each year.
Posted by pelican, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 3:31:43 PM
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Parents above all are to blame for the sexualisation of children. Whether it allowing your kids to watch the spew music clips the ABC insist on showing or to present your 12 year old girl to pose for sick artist, parents are responsible for their children. So many mums either naively or in order to be popular allow their kids to wear the latest sleaze gear. Unfortunately many of the idols that mums allow the kids to copy are nothing more than whores with no shame. Look at how many young girls look up to the likes of Britney or Madonna or Pink. We are doing no more than reaping what we have sown by refusing to accept any decent standards in society. Instead the small minority of 'liberals' or degenerates have been allowed to influence the media and society at large. Freedom freedom is the mantra of the civil libertarians even if thye end result is bondage, bondage when poor young girls are not allowed to grow up as children anymore.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 4:16:10 PM
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