Sarah K. Murnen, a professor of psychology at Kenyon College, said parents today face greater challenges than those in the past because girls’ clothing has become more sexualized. “Some people say it’s due to an increased pornification of culture,” Professor Murnen said, “where the easy availability of pornography on the Internet has made its way into styles and popular culture.” She cited thong underwear, push-up bras and leather miniskirts for first to fifth graders as examples.What, pray tell, do first graders have to "push up"?
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Why I'm Glad I Don't Have a Daughter
It's because of this:
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My wife and I had two daughters, one born in 1983, the other in 1986, who grew up as the de-moralization of Western societies generally (and the sluttification of girls by the popular culture specifically) were already well under way. The factors noted by Professor Murnen, though outside parents' control in a global sense, are within parental sway for individual children. Our daughters, both of whom are young women now--one is 29 and recently married, the other 26 and still single--did not give us any serious problems in the moral realm while they were growing up . . . because we refused to yield to the toxic popular culture that had already become dominant. The girls were held to the moral standards of our Catholic faith, not to what Hollywood screenwriters or rap "musicians" happened to be espousing at the time.
The fashion designers who put out the pornified girls' clothing in question succeed because so many parents surrender--without much of a fight, as far as I can see--to the forces of moral decay around them.
I have no doubt that, had Scaramouche been blessed with a daughter, she would have grown up to be a fine young lady (much as her son, of whom she occasionally gives her readers a glimpse, has grown up to be a fine young gentleman).
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