printA great deal of carping goes on about the crap China exports to us (by popular demand). Very little is said about the sh-t we ship over there. Here Glenn Beck reports on the little American Lolitas, courtesy of Disney, who help sell sexy underwear to China’s children.
Beck describes (and later shows on screen) a
“White girl, 12 years old, reclining in a matching bra and panties set with Disney’s signature mouse ear design in a particular creepy detail, the pigtailed child is playing with a pair of Mickey Mouse hand puppets. In the left-hand corner is the familiar script of a Disney logo.”
The child sports cleavage which might have been enhanced digitally.
The Chinese should give Americans a hard time over this.
American children appear to be party to a very sexual vibe cultivated in sexually inappropriate family interactions and nurtured at schools. Watch any Hollywood film and you see girls being overtly sexual with their dads and vise versa.
(Why do so many American parents kiss their kids on the mouth? Absolutely inappropriate. Why do so many parents let their daughters walk around looking like “pint-sized tarts”?)
As an example, consider the Vanity Fair Miley Cyrus photo, where the girl, in various states of undress, nestles in the arms of father Billy Ray Cyrus, and looks up at him seductively. Major creep-out.
When I was growing up the instinct was to try and stay a little girl a little longer—especially around dads.
To be honest, a country exporting cheap electronics has a leg up on a country that peddles porn, don’t you think?
In case libertarians get confused, as they are wont to do, between cultural commentary and libertarian legal theory—of course peddling porn, soft and hard, ought to remain legal. The law should stay out of all voluntary exchanges between consenting adults.
Update (May 6): I must admit that, although I’ve never watched the program “Hanna Montana,” the girl Miley strikes me as anything but sweet and innocent. Perhaps my idea of nice is different. The Cyrus girl is loud, overbearing and extremely precocious. For such a twit, she’s also full of herself. The little I’ve seen of the “family” doing its wholesome-values shtick, the more they’ve struck me as shallow and showy, not wholesome. Then again, I’ve not had the chance to plumb the depths of “Hanna Montana” and her handlers.
Whenever the Fox-News folks have oozed over the wholesomeness of this girl is and then cut to actual footage of Cyrus carrying forth—my impression has been the opposite. When I think of wholesome (and as pretty as a picture), I think Martina McBride.
As to the whole blame Dad and Disney thing, I’ve expressed my views before: “The paternalistic depiction of women as passive agents, demeaned by male-driven appetites, is a humbug shared by conservatives and liberals alike.”
Cyrus may be 15, but she’s a single-minded exhibitionist, propelled and driven by the fame thing. In all likelihood, she originated the idea of posing for Vanity Fair and would not stop pestering her pappy until he relented. Anyone who has a teenager and handles her as does the typical American parent—like a demigoddess—knows I’m right.
Those who persist in the poor-teen-is-a-victim routine don’t have children. Or are oblivious to the reversal in parent-child roles that has come to typify the dynamics in the American family.
Agreed about the mouth kissing. I think parents kissing their kids on the mouth is about the creepiest thing ever.
Holy COW that Cyrus photo shoot was creepy as hell. I saw some of it on you tube, but I closed the window as soon as I saw her being cradled in the arms of her father. Uck. That is just disgusting.
Incest? Incest leaning…? Gross. No doubt the liberals, having been content to ally with everything amoral or just plain gross, will now defend this disgusting behavior.
Speaking of the end of the world, this from WorldNetDailey:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63076
And yes, from my perspective things are that bad. But perhaps we will be spared as Nineveh was (for a while) if we elect Ron Paul for President.
When I watch TV (which isn’t often) I do like to tune in and see what Glenn Beck is saying every now and again. I think he’s likable enough personally, but I don’t like how hawkish he can be. But even that seems to have died down in the last year or so…might be Ron Paul’s influence.
Disney should dump Miley Cyrus, immediately. Many young girls look up to her, wanting to be like her, wanting to emulate her. Are they now going to recline in undies over Daddy’s lap, with a “come-on” look in their eyes?
Billy Ray Cyrus, the one-hit wonder of many years ago, surely has some knowledge of publicity and show-biz that his daughter had not. If little Miley is “embarrassed” by the pics, as she states, she has her father to “thank” for the recent exposure.
Let Miley go and follow after Brittney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and every other pop tart who’s come out of the Disney establishment. There are thousands of equally talented young actresses/singers who would love to play Hannah Montana, given the chance.
Interesting. I’ve always heard (from my own parents) that girls who don’t get affection from their fathers are more likely to be promiscuous.
I admit I’ve never seen parents kiss post-toddler-age children on the mouth. [Why kiss toddlers or small children on the mouth?!–IM]. Nor have I ever seen girls being overtly sexual with their dads in any Hollywood film. I see the opposite problem in media portrayals: dads are either absent, abusive or worthless. [Hollywood shows overtly sexual interactions between dad’s and girls as well as depicting fathers and men in general as worthless. I am not sure why you would think the two things are mutually exclusive, or that the one precludes the other.—IM]
Do you think porn involving minors should be legal?
I’ve never looked into whatever the heck this Hannah Montana business is, anyway. Mostly because it always appeared like airheaded nonsense.
All starts in the home.. Barbie has been replaced by Bratz dolls who are all dressed like street prostitutes, even down to the hats to keep the heads warm on their roadside corners. Reap what you sow..
The ad was made by a Chinese subsidiary. [Provide link, please.] Maybe there were Westerners at the subsidiary. But it could also be similar to a situation, for instance, if an American company made an ad for Americans on behalf of a Thai company that showed someone touching another person’s head, i.e. we see the problem with the ad, but in China, where they do not sexualize young girls, the ad appears innocent.
When the picture first cropped up, I knew who Miley Cyrus was, but I hadn’t seen either her or her father often enough to recognize them offhand. So when I saw that pic, having no idea who was in it, God help me but I thought I was looking at a soap opera picture of two lovers or something. I was shocked when I found out it was a father/daughter pic. I tried to rationalize it by pointing out that it couldn’t possibly be deliberately seductive-looking, and that probably wasn’t Billy’s desire anyway. Yet this can’t, and won’t, erase my first impression of it. If I need to determine the nature of it and why people react the way they do, all I really need to do is remember what I thought when I first saw it myself.
“Do you think porn involving minors should be legal?”
Isn’t that a no-brainer for any decent person, Tamara?
And at the very same time we’re all just “shocked” at the child brides in the Mormon compound. So …. our society wants kids to be sexy, just not sexual??
“So …. our society wants kids to be sexy, just not sexual??”
Why of course, Joel (sarcasm). Society expects girls to advertise for all they’re worth, just never to deliver; the minute they do, they’re labeled sluts (depending who you listen to). That’s the ironic thing, really, between us and the Mormon sect: our girls are expected to advertise and never deliver, while the Mormon girls are told just to deliver, never to advertise!
It’s really no wonder teens in our culture lose their virginity so soon, considering how the image and subject of sex is thrown at them every which way.
Mrs. Mercer
As you probably know I tried to post this comment several weeks ago, but since I placed it in the middle of a post that dealt with completely different issues you understandably did not display it.
Since this post includes several links to some of your articles, that deal with music, singing, culture, womanhood, beauty and aesthetics and especially since you said that you used to listen to Arabic music while growing up, I am assuming that it will be proper of me to display this.
Again, I must repeat myself and say that your talent for grasping music and movies is surpassed only by your graceful poise.
I realise that you are very busy, but if you would be kind enough to watch the following video clips and give us your opinion, I would be very grateful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ9NZq_K5wk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntRmvARvX4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1-6o-QLKM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UulgiTCcug&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSG9dK9C8TE
Her name is Cyrine Abdelnour.
She is a Lebanese Arab singer& actress, and as far as I know a Maronite Catholic Christian.
In my opinion, she is very lovely and has a wonderful voice.
Thank you very much in advance.
Kind regards, Alexander.
[Beautiful yes, but musically only slightly better than other pop-princesses in my opinion. She is, however, inoffensive, something one cannot say about out crop of video vixens.—IM]
As usual, nobody blames the actual culprits – the media companies that produce and promote this proto-pedophilia. Why? Because the media are the mouthpieces of the ruling socialist elites, for whom pedophilia is par for the course. Witness the Franklin Cover-Up scandal of the late 1980s White House, the numerous congressional Page scandals of the past few decades and the elite pedophilia exposed in Belgium in the 1990s.
Since the ruling aristocracy deems to own the personhood of every citizen (conscription, the war on drugs, etc.), it naturally follows that idea of ownership would extend to the children of citizens. The fact of the matter is that until people start standing up to the ruling elites, their media mouthpieces and their statist enforcer minions, you can only expect more of the same cultural degradation to come.
[Smut on TV is demand driven. The people power the demand.–IM]