by Sandra Williams
After reading a rant by Sherry at Chaos Therapy, I was deeply disturbed. Girls have enough to worry about growing up without being pushed to wax themselves. Some children haven’t hit puberty and a Brazilian wax was being touted to 10 to 14 year olds?!
Larissa Dubecki wrote about it and this is an actual quote being referenced from another website. (Why 10 is too young for your first Brazilian) “Nobody really likes hair in their private regions and it has a childlike appeal.” I believe the quote has been removed but the fact that it was said at all is disgusting.
It’s a very personal choice that an ADULT would make about whether they want all their hair removed. If some prefer women look like children and that is why they like it, it is a sad world indeed. It has to be a confusing message for girls. Alright, now that you’re beginning to grow up, make yourself look like a kid again.
Apparently, Nair has a hair removal line they promote towards 10 to 15 year olds. What the heck is going on? It’s disturbing that the media has taken it upon themselves to tell girls yet again what to do with their bodies.
What age parents would allow kids to get their ears pierced used to be the big decision (whether they would allow it at all). It was still the parent’s decision though. I cannot wrap my head around how anyone could think it was appropriate to be pushing a kid to remove hair that may not have even grown yet.
The clothes, make up and lifestyle the media promotes to tween girls is bad enough but suggesting hair removal at the age of ten is going way too far.
November 7th, 2008 at 8:13 am
I totally agree with what has been said here, I was just surfing through the internet looking for information on problems middle school children face for a paper for university when I stumbled across this, I thought it was a joke at first, but it is truely disturbing. We really need to let children be children and not force adult themes and information into their lives. Driving home today I stumbled across a sign, one of many that are around that has a plain yellow back ground and big red letters that reads: WANT LONGER LASTING SEX? I mean why use a sign like that? Innuendo works just as good and children aren’t seeing sex plastered all over their lives. The age that people are having sex is now dropping dramatically, and we are having town bikes in our primary school classrooms.
I am all for the evolution of thinking and society changing, however I do believe that we need to keep a closer eye on what exactly our society is changing into.