The beauty pagents are obviously more for the mothers than for the children.

My concerns are with the number of magazines for young girls that so often encourage them to be sexual, and to have sex at a younger age.

Latest research indicates that the decision making part of the brain is not mature untill early or mid-twenties.

Young girls and teenagers are simply not mature enough to make proper decisions about sex, and to encourage them into having sex at a younger and younger age is not acceptable.

Typically, few feminists have opposed such magazines, on the basis that the magazines help females become sexually liberated.

Vanna <"Latest research indicates that the decision making part of the brain is not mature untill early or mid-twenties."

Really? What research?
If this is true, then I agree we should ban all magazines, for those of us under 25, that mention sex right away.

Of course, in the interests of equality, this will include all the 'titty' magazines on sale for all the highly sexed young heterosexual lads out there too.

Right?

Who has allowed all those sin-filled girlie magazines to be available?
Surely the feminists aren't involved in that far more prolific problem?

Yes, I agree. The age of consent should be 25. Just to be safe. Children under that age don't have the maturity to have sex.

Suzanonline,
“ New findings show that the greatest changes to the parts of the brain that are responsible for functions such as self-control, judgment, emotions, and organization occur between puberty and adulthood.

This may help to explain certain teenage behavior that adults can find mystifying,such as poor decision-making, recklessness, and emotional outbursts.”

http://www.actforyouth.net/resources/rf/rf_brain_0502.pdf

This was a reason why the Clinical Senate in WA wants the drinking age increased to 21, because under 21’s lack decision making capabilities.

It could eventuate that the drinking age is increased to 21, but feminists encourage young people to have lots of sex, as long as they wear a condom.

Teenagers have as much chance of wearing a condom as they have of responsible drinking.

Regards women’s magazines, then these magazines sell more copies than all other magazines combined. Women’s magazines are also a bottomless pit of consumerism, sexualisation and gossip.

I don’t know of any father who dresses up his daughter, and then takes her off to Miss Botox Beauty Pageant.

I don’t know of any father who buys his daughter women’s magazines.

I don’t know of any father who takes his daughter to the clothes shop to buy the shortest possible shorts, so that she looks like a street walker.

It is the mothers that are doing it.

Vanka, you need help.
No...seriously.
I would suggest the only way you would be happy is if there were no women at all on this earth.

Suzaonline,

You ask for references from others, but you never reference anything.

Your input is basically regurgitating feminist speak.

Your levels of debate are on par with most other people I have encountered, who have no mind of their own, or ability for individual thought.

Which university or feminist indoctrination school did you attend?

vanna,

I see you've really upset suzie. You should know by now that with feminists, whatever you do, don't ask women to be accountable for their own actions.

Suggesting that women dress provactivley for their own gratification is the biggest of all taboos. Of course men look at good looking women but men will will look at a good looking woman no matter how they are dressed. Anyone who thinks women dress for men is kidding themselves.

We are probably just jealous of people like suzie. I mean not just anyone could coin the term 'vanka'. I think suzie must be on her way to a PhD too like 'Dr' Jocelynne. Aparently, an interst in children's beauty pagents is now enough to become a visiting fellow at Cambridge. Probably solved the big problems facing humanity in her undergrad degree.

Back to the topic (hopefully)

Body image and the ability to love yourself are real issues but so to is obesity. There are unhealthy extremes at both end of the scales.

Both extremes have long term health risks and both can increase the risks of unwanted teasing from other kids.

I don't think it's 6 year old kids who need the book about healthy diet though. It's the parents who set the examples for their kids and who fill them with junk food at every opportunity or who are so obsessed with their own looks that they set that obsession as the benchmark. From the kids I've seen around the overdoses of junk food are far more common than underfeeding kids in our society.

Regularly feeding kids so badly that they become obese is a form of child abuse consistent with other forms of neglect. It might be an indulgent neglect but it's still harming kids.

R0bert

The age should be more like sixteen year olds. Another example of out of control parents, living their failed dreams. If it was regulated it would be seen as communism, and go against the powers that made the laws.