EYE CANDY AT AGE ELEVEN? AS IN, 11? KINDA YOUNG NO? WHAT’S WRONG WITH MOM HERE?
on 07/05/2008 at 10:30 AM
I can BARELY see the “sense” in this *if*, and only if, you are like Jonbenet Ramsey’s mom and have dreams/plans of your lil girl being a world class model by.... yeah, about 11. In that sense it’s like raising an Olympic gymnast. The reason you have gold medal Olympic gymnasts at 13, 14, 15 is because their parents have pretty consistently ruined their lives for a decade by then.
‘Sasha’s friends are the same. All girls their age are. Of course they are! Why else would you be able to buy make-up for pre-teens at Boots?’
But no.... looks to me like it isn’t some mercenary woman deciding her daughter is gonna be Britain’s next supermodel before she’s old enough to legally sign a release form.... looks to me more like she truly can’t distinguish between “all the kids are doing it” and “the marketing dept. of __________ figures SOMEONE will be stupid and obsessive enough to do this.”
To be fair, I have to admit my own bias here. In my book, anyone who spends… what, around $750 US? every single month on cosmetic work and isn’t a movie star getting a serious return on such an investment, is an idiot. Doubtless she’s some rich hustler’s trophy wife and is happily raising her daughter to be the same. Personally I always thought children should have a few years between getting out of diapers and being teenagers to be *children*. Apparently I’m hopelessly old fashioned. But if you are going to turn them into mini adults, complete with jaded cynicism, I can’t help wondering what her pacifier looked like. You might as well, if you’re going to get so obsessive you do everything else.
Sure, she’s a nice looking little kid. But she stills looks like a kid playing dress-up. This isn’t sexy. I don’t think she can be at that age, no matter the outfit or make-up.
I think this is just another parent pushing the heck out of their child. Usually its soccer, but in this case pageants. And I think mummy (who is no hag btw!) is living vicariously through the kid. Which is what I think an awful lot of these parents are doing these days ... kids can’t be kids, they all have to be little stars at something or another, or else they have no self-esteem at all? BS.
Now, if mummy starts hooking the girl up with older men as lovers, or pushing her towards a “career” in kiddie porn, then we’ve got some real sickness on our hands.
I also think teaching a girl that the only that matters is her appearance is pretty short shrift in this day and age. The empty headed Barbies still get humped and dumped these days, because that’s really all they’re good for - and probably not all that good at that. Content and character build interesting people. Narcissists are all neurotic.
At 15, she will have her face all burned and wrinkled from all that makeup. Then we’ll see mommy dearest blaming the cosmetics companies.
Posted by tango
07/05/2008 at 01:57 PM
"Mummy is living vicariously through the kid”
You hit that one with a bullseye!!!!
Just disgusting- Dressing up the kid like a tart.
If my daughter was dressed up like that by her mom there would be holy hell to pay.
Posted by gdonovan
07/06/2008 at 05:25 AM
This is wrong on so many levels…
I’m thinking of when I was 13, my sister was eleven, and I had to beat up a friend for putting moves on my eleven-year-old sister. (it got worse, I had to beat up another ‘friend’ who thought that being my friend gave him carte blanche to hit on my younger ten-year-old sister.)
It’s tough being the older brother sometimes. I didn’t win all of the fights. I got my ass creamed several times. But…
The fact that I stood up for my sisters meant that I never had to do it again. I inflicted enough damage even when I lost. “Leave those Christopher sisters alone, unless you want a beating even if you win.”
My sisters also told me that it even trickled down when they were 16, 17…
Good. I was off to college then, but they told me that they used the ‘wait ‘til my brother gets home’ line.
Well Peiper, I wasn’t a parent.
This happened in 1970-1971. I was just the brother. I figure it was probably normal for kids to do that at the time. Kids. Nobody hit on me then.
Well, there was the time I found out a good friend was a homo ... and there I was being stupid, I was staying for an overnight and was after his sister. He would have been easy. It’s just that, even then I didn’t do same sex. Almost got the sister, but their parents came home and I was dumped back at my house forthwith.
How did I find out he was a homo? You don’t want to know, and it involved fisticuffs. I don’t take lightly to being raped. I beat him up (which surprised me because he was easily twice my size) and his sister showed up to ‘comfort’ me.
Almost got the sister.
Who hits on a 10-year-old? Back then it was a fourteen-year-old. A friend, who grew up with the ten-year-old. I can almost forgive that.
Nowadays it is seriously ill pedophiles who are 30, or 40, or older. Behavior I will shoot you for. No CCW needed for that.
What a honorable person you must be Christopher. I taught my sister to kick in the balls and she never needed me for any of that work. She later got into doing Insurance and said that the lessons have proved to be quit valuable!
