April 29th, 2008 - 15 Comments
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April 29th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Johnny Publik says it’s still the sexualisation of a young teenager and sends the message to ANYONE who looks at this picture that it’s ok and encouraged to think about people under 18 in this manner. I think we need to be careful about the kinds of images we put out there; next thing you know, some 50 year old guy is looking at all the schoolgirls around him with this picture in his head, and not feeling guilty about it anymore because the media inundates him with it all the time. We are being complicitly permissive; normalizing the sexuality of teenagers within their own peer group is one thing, normalizing it in a way (ie the media)that may garner them a lot of attention from people much older than them (that may also be their teachers, relatives, neighbours, or other adults in a position of some power) is actually sinister, if not criminal.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I really don’t see how this photograph is sexual, to be honest. And anyway, she’s 15, not 12.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
So it would be ok for a 40 year old to ogle her or worse because she’s 15 not 12?
April 29th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Like I said, I don’t believe this photograph is particularly sexual. 15-year-old girls dress “provocatively” all the time, and they’re often sexually active. This photograph, however, is art. It’s very Baroque, actually. And I really don’t feel that it’s inappropriate for her age. I mean, tell me she doesn’t own 15 bikinis and trot around in them at the beach. That’s way worse.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:57 am
I am not debating the aesthetics of the pic.
The issue is how she is perceived by those OUT of her age group, and how those people will then treat others of her age; when she’s on the beach in a bikini, she’s laughing and having fun with peers in HER AGE GROUP (I hope anyway); if she’s sexually active, hopefully it’s with another teenager, and hopefully safe sex blah blah blah.
I have no problem with her sending a pic like this to one of her peers out of her own choice. But putting it out there to the general public is not doing the world at large any favours. Ask anyone who’s ever been assaulted by someone older. I don’t think pics like this help (comments, anybody?). I think pics risk saying “fifteen year olds are fair game now, because if they’re posing like this then they want the attention anyway.” And that’s just dangerous.
If you’re under 18, the LESS racy the better; Now all 15 year olds think they need to measure up to this (as if there wasn’t enough pressure on adolescent girls already): “I need to have a bedroom pose too.”
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I say, BBBBBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
There’s enough porn and suggestive pics out there already. But leave it to the grownups, puleeeeeez!
April 30th, 2008 at 1:24 am
That’s such a ridiculous argument, though. I mean you can’t really be responsible for how people perceive things. It’s not like Vanity Fair asked her to do a porno…
Actually, I’m just really offended by your argument here. Again, I think the photograph is beautiful, and it is a far cry from sexual assault. I don’t see it as the sexualization of a minor at all and I don’t really understand why you do. Hmm?
…Perv.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:45 am
You’re right.
You can’t be responsible for how people perceive things.
I can’t be responsible for your erroneous perception, and you can’t be responsible for my level-headed and blatantly correct fact-based opinion. Thank God we live in America where people of differing opinions can blog it out and watch Nancy Grace on Cnn! Yeeha! (Oh wait….)
April 30th, 2008 at 1:57 am
1. Neither of us live in america. I live in canada, and you live in a top-secret bunker in an undisclosed location.
2. Your opinion doesn’t make any sense. You just want to argue. You are a social conservative masquerading as an extreme leftist. You don’t believe in social freedom. You love censorship and the demonization of anything remotely connected with sex. The human body is not NECESSARILY a sexual object at all times, and viewing it as though it is is a dangerous line of thinking, sir. I’d expect more from you.
3. What happened to the third person??
April 30th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Johnny Publik sees red and loses the third person when he gets confronted with pics that would make Warren Jeffs drool (if you need to google Warren Jeffs, then you don’t watch enough TV in your bunker).
Johnny Publik is a pervert in his own right, with people who are ADULTS. Johnny Publik just thinks kids should allowed to be kids already….
April 30th, 2008 at 2:09 am
PS: Viva la Revolucion!
April 30th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Ah but Johnny Publik just doesn’t appreciate the beauty of adolescence. That in-between place between childhood and adulthood is perhaps the coolest thing in existence (provided you’re not in said place, of course). This photo perfectly captures that.
And I don’t have TV because I am counter-cultural. Duh.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:46 am
PPS: Attacking your opponent’s character to win a debate reduces one to the level of someone running for public office…I guess we both could be President…
April 30th, 2008 at 3:26 am
No you have to be a natural-born citizen.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:05 am
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Miley just got “quarantined” by Disney (her employers) for the next six months! They don’t like the pics either.
You won’t be seeing much of her for a while!
A bad move is just a bad move.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:57 am
I can’t believe you’re siding with Disney.