Comments on: Making a Mountain Out of a Miniskirt

Comments on: Making a Mountain Out of a Miniskirt http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289 A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:14:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mark La Roi http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289/comment-page-1#comment-9579 Mark La Roi Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:17:26 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289#comment-9579 When I blogged about this her parents (or someone pretending to be her father) responded and I'll summarize what my reply: It is about sex but it's also about priority. She's not there to be a fashion plate no matter how important that is to a girl. She's there to learn and has not only disrupted (with the help of her mother) her own learning, but also that of the kids around her. For what? To wear a short skirt. Priorities way out of order and being reinforced at home.
It is about sex but it's also about priority. She's not there to be a fashion plate no matter how important that is to a girl. She's there to learn and has not only disrupted (with the help of her mother) her own learning, but also that of the kids around her. For what? To wear a short skirt.

Priorities way out of order and being reinforced at home.]]> By: Funky Dung http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289/comment-page-1#comment-9563 Funky Dung Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:17:35 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289#comment-9563 I'm always surprised and impressed by who ends up correcting me when I get to cynical or cranky. Thanks for doing your part, Advogado. Consider the issue addressed. :) ]]> By: advogado de diabo http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289/comment-page-1#comment-9561 advogado de diabo Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:50:31 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289#comment-9561 First, I have to say I had forgotten how bad the local news was in Pittsburgh. I can't believe how much time they spent on a crying ten year old. <blockquote>I think this ten year old girl knows exactly why she likes the miniskirt </blockquote> True, thinking back to when I was ten, I was sexually attracted to the girls in my class. Its easy to forget what was going on in your mind back then. <blockquote>no doubt learned how to dress like a slut</blockquote> I think this comment in unnecessarily harsh and inaccurate. Finally as much as I hated wearing uniforms in grade school, and enjoyed checking out girls in minskirts, I think uniforms should be mandatory in public schools. That would take care of this issue and a bunch of others at the same time.

I think this ten year old girl knows exactly why she likes the miniskirt

True, thinking back to when I was ten, I was sexually attracted to the girls in my class. Its easy to forget what was going on in your mind back then.

no doubt learned how to dress like a slut

I think this comment in unnecessarily harsh and inaccurate.

Finally as much as I hated wearing uniforms in grade school, and enjoyed checking out girls in minskirts, I think uniforms should be mandatory in public schools. That would take care of this issue and a bunch of others at the same time.]]> By: Peter http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289/comment-page-1#comment-9558 Peter Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:52:22 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289#comment-9558 <blockquote>It’s about protecting innocence.</blockquote> Only if you believe innocence actually exists, or is worth protecting. Having worked in classrooms with children as young as kindergarten, I was often shocked by the things kids know or can infer, and then talk about amongst each other. And when I think back to my own experiences growing up, I can't remember ever not knowing what sex was about. I think this ten year old girl knows exactly why she likes the miniskirt (and I suspect her classmates do, too). What I don't think she understands is why it's an issue or whether it should be one. That will take her ten or fifteen more years to figure out. It’s about protecting innocence.

Only if you believe innocence actually exists, or is worth protecting. Having worked in classrooms with children as young as kindergarten, I was often shocked by the things kids know or can infer, and then talk about amongst each other. And when I think back to my own experiences growing up, I can't remember ever not knowing what sex was about.

I think this ten year old girl knows exactly why she likes the miniskirt (and I suspect her classmates do, too). What I don't think she understands is why it's an issue or whether it should be one. That will take her ten or fifteen more years to figure out.]]> By: Funky Dung http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289/comment-page-1#comment-9556 Funky Dung Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:18:18 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289#comment-9556 <blockquote>"I imagine a bunch of grown men sitting around pulling at their collars and dabbing sweat from their foreheads, wishing that ten year old girl in the short skirt would just cover up, but then turning around and decrying child pornography. Hypocrites."</blockquote> You've missed the point. With the right clothes and makeup, a 10-yr-old girl can look like a teenager, thus opening her up to sexual advances from teenage boys. A little girl should be more worried about looking cute or being comfortable than looking fashionable or sexy. Kids are becoming sexually active at younger and younger ages and most parents are oblivious to it. Instead of helping her daughter protest the principal's decision, she should have explained to her daughter why she shouldn't be trying so hard to be fashionalble, because fashion is so tied to sexuality. Ten is old enough to talk about birds and bees. She'll be having her period soon if she hasn't already. Better she learn before the hormones kick in than after, anyway. Anyhow, this isn't a matter of hypocritical letches trying to avoid tempation. It's about protecting innocence. The poor girl doesn't know any better. Her parents should know better and take responsibility for protecting her. They failed to, so the principal stepped in. That's his right and I applaud him for it. "I imagine a bunch of grown men sitting around pulling at their collars and dabbing sweat from their foreheads, wishing that ten year old girl in the short skirt would just cover up, but then turning around and decrying child pornography. Hypocrites."

You've missed the point. With the right clothes and makeup, a 10-yr-old girl can look like a teenager, thus opening her up to sexual advances from teenage boys. A little girl should be more worried about looking cute or being comfortable than looking fashionable or sexy. Kids are becoming sexually active at younger and younger ages and most parents are oblivious to it. Instead of helping her daughter protest the principal's decision, she should have explained to her daughter why she shouldn't be trying so hard to be fashionalble, because fashion is so tied to sexuality. Ten is old enough to talk about birds and bees. She'll be having her period soon if she hasn't already. Better she learn before the hormones kick in than after, anyway.

Anyhow, this isn't a matter of hypocritical letches trying to avoid tempation. It's about protecting innocence. The poor girl doesn't know any better. Her parents should know better and take responsibility for protecting her. They failed to, so the principal stepped in. That's his right and I applaud him for it.]]> By: Peter http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289/comment-page-1#comment-9553 Peter Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:57:17 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2289#comment-9553 I suppose the purpose of not letting a girl wear short skirts to school is to avoid sexual objectification. But she's ten years old. Wait a minute. If she's not allowed, at ten years old, to wear short skirts because she might be construed sexually, isn't that an admission by all of the authorities involved that a ten year old girl in a short skirt can be too sexy? But wait, I thought finding young girls attractive was Pure Evil™, right? (I mean, what about that fellow from Homeland Security who was busted for talking to an imaginary underage girl?) No, that can't be it. Right? But if we put her in the same short skirt, took a picture, and then plastered her picture on a bunch of merchandise in order to induce consumers to buy, would people complain? Nobody complained about Abercrombie and Fitch until their pictures started to look not just like kids in not enough clothing, but like kids in not enough clothing and doing things that they shouldn't be doing. The kid is cute. She likes wearing the short skirt. God knows why. I don't really care. She's ten freaking years old; she can't think for herself yet, not if she's a product of public schools at least. The mother is the "brains" behind the operation. I know a few mothers like that. They're dimwitted fools who think the only way for their daughters to be successful is by turning them into sex symbols. Is she on the road to sexual objectification and ruin? I don't know, nor do I care. But the fact that adults are worried that a ten year old girl can possibly look too sexy is a complete betrayal of the idea that people who find little girls sexually attractive are some how deviants, isn't it? I imagine a bunch of grown men sitting around pulling at their collars and dabbing sweat from their foreheads, wishing that ten year old girl in the short skirt would just cover up, but then turning around and decrying child pornography. Hypocrites.
But she's ten years old.

Wait a minute. If she's not allowed, at ten years old, to wear short skirts because she might be construed sexually, isn't that an admission by all of the authorities involved that a ten year old girl in a short skirt can be too sexy? But wait, I thought finding young girls attractive was Pure Evil™, right? (I mean, what about that fellow from Homeland Security who was busted for talking to an imaginary underage girl?)

No, that can't be it. Right? But if we put her in the same short skirt, took a picture, and then plastered her picture on a bunch of merchandise in order to induce consumers to buy, would people complain? Nobody complained about Abercrombie and Fitch until their pictures started to look not just like kids in not enough clothing, but like kids in not enough clothing and doing things that they shouldn't be doing.

The kid is cute. She likes wearing the short skirt. God knows why. I don't really care. She's ten freaking years old; she can't think for herself yet, not if she's a product of public schools at least. The mother is the "brains" behind the operation. I know a few mothers like that. They're dimwitted fools who think the only way for their daughters to be successful is by turning them into sex symbols.

Is she on the road to sexual objectification and ruin? I don't know, nor do I care. But the fact that adults are worried that a ten year old girl can possibly look too sexy is a complete betrayal of the idea that people who find little girls sexually attractive are some how deviants, isn't it? I imagine a bunch of grown men sitting around pulling at their collars and dabbing sweat from their foreheads, wishing that ten year old girl in the short skirt would just cover up, but then turning around and decrying child pornography. Hypocrites.]]>