Comments on: Good links, bad links

By: Chakli

Chakli — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:39:08 +0000

Read an article yesterday that girls as young as 7 are getting highlights in their hair these days. That was a bit difficult to digest. I am still not sure if i am okay with little girls coming in for pedicures and manicures. But bikini waxes…man, that’s a bit too much!

By: Inba

Inba — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:31:41 +0000

Bikini wax on babies? Why aren’t these women being arrested?

Well, apparently it is a mother-daughter bonding thingy!
Go figure!

By: Suki

Suki — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:33:41 +0000

Like… WTF?!
I’m somewhat stunned. And at all of 19 years I’m supposedly one more generation down the line, right?

Surely we can’t put ALL of this down to nuclear families and the boundaries between children and adults being blurred?!?!?! The moms want “adult company” and will transform their daughters into adults, the kids don’t see other kids around except when in school and want to BE adults… this is effing screwed.
And the thought of a bikini wax sends chills down my spine.

Am I glad to see such a sensible teen or what? Waxing sends chills down my spine, period, never mind a Brazilian or Argentinian or any other South American. I seriously agree with some of the other commentators - this is abuse. Right? I mean, which moronic mind can compare this barbaric ritual to having a nail painting session together? hmm?

By: Hairy gender issues « The Brat, the Bean and Bedlam

Hairy gender issues « The Brat, the Bean and Bedlam — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:34:54 +0000

[...] gender issues Posted by the mad momma under feminism, gender, issues Got this link via Desigirl who got it via Metrodad. About girls as young as 9 being taught the art of make up by Vogue [...]

By: choxbox

choxbox — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:52:18 +0000

i am speechless. really. i have no words to say/type/write after i read that article.

By: Amrita

Amrita — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:12:17 +0000

I’ve said this before but… this is what comes of promoting famewhores as role models. Betcha those kids will have MySpace videos of them flashing their cootchie just like their favoritest celeb ever at the age of 13.

You know the scary part, Am? You might have hit it right on the head. *shudder*
It needed meteors to take out the dinosaurs - we are so advanced, we’d do the job ourselves, thanks very much.

By: dipali

dipali — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:57:59 +0000

This is just so crazy-what do those women think they are doing? Bah.

Creating “mini-me”s, Dipali. Wanna bet half of those poor sods would be in therapy by the time they hit their teens and most of them would be on reality TV by the time they hit 18?

By: K3

K3 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:46:41 +0000

OMG!!!! These mom’s are NUTS!!! I hope I never run across one, coz I would want to slap them straight! Ok you can see I am mad! Going to run to starbucks to cool off!

PS - happy that your kid(s) loved the stories, the website is really cool.

It’s a fab site - I loved the option of subscribing it on iTunes. And all for FREE! Way cool!
Like someone else commented, why doesn’t this constitute as abuse, I’d like to know? Putting an 8 year old through bikini wax is abuse, right?

By: DotMom

DotMom — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:28:34 +0000

thanks for the story nory link.. the bikini wax for 8yr olds is horrendous. Nobody thinks this is abuse now?

No problem. I know - how can subjecting your 8 year old to something barbaric as bikini wax not be considered abuse? Did you read the article fully? Microdermabrasion for 10 year olds! And I remember my parlour aunty laughing in my face when I murmured ‘facial’ at the ripe age of 17!!
Poor kids - childhood lost at the spas and beauty parlours.