ailbhe | Cult of Youth, Infantilisation, Fashion

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Thoughts:

Little girls and young teenage girls wear clothes which adult women can't without "trying to look young."

Adult women dress in these for advertising purposes with an explicit sexual message.

Ew.

Things which come immediately to mind are very short skirts with white ankle socks, school uniforms, babydoll dresses, etc. There are more but I haven't thought properly about it yet. But I know I've seen other instances of women, mainly in sex-sells-products type adverts, dressing like little girls in order to appear more alluring, presumably through vulnerability, but ew. I think it's to do with the virgin-whore thing. Ew ew ew.

Also: do little boys wear things which adult men don't usually wear? Or do boys and men wear basically the same clothing, so there isn't the same message-sending ability? I can't think clearly about it, right now.

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From:

calieber.livejournal.com

Well, men of all ages are "supposed to" try to look like adults, while women are supposed to go for youth.

I'm not romanticly interested in women under about 25 (I'll be 30 in about two weeks); whatever would we talk about? Not that children inevitably confound attempts at conversation, but not so much the tone one wants in this context (I wouldn't want to sleep with a woman in or just past her late teens if the alternative is someone who knows what she's doing).

From:

ailbhe

Hm. Well, when I was involved with a man in his late twenties when I was in my late teens, we talked about feminism, socialism, poetry, photography, classic literature, food, coffee, our families, ethical consumerism, and how much we fancied each other.

Not much has changed!