Shutting down a child's account would not be 'giving in to bullies'. Bullies aren't the issue... sexual predators are, and they don't want the account shuttered. They want exactly what she'd now giving them. The incoherence of self-justification is a wonder to behold...
The big eyeball grab moves downmarket into the burbs where bored housewives pimp out their daughters for a bagful of likes. How quickly our internet dreams turned into tawdry nightmares. As Ted Gioia said last week, the dopamine cartel is the largest pusher in the world.
What's going on with girls? We read Eliza to see the what happens (and why) when girls opt out of womanhood.
Reading this piece, I immediately thought of Caitlin Flanagan's book, Girl Land--published in 2013. This book was published just before the huge increase of girls taking on a trans identity.
I don't have a copy of Girl Land to review, but I recall thinking when I read it that there was much intentionally left unsaid. What C.F. left unsaid was: what about the girls who are uncomfortable being highly-sexualized? Where do they fit into the social world of the popular girls?
I would think so. Yet somehow this abuse of children is unregulated. Children who work in any other field, including entertainment, which I would call this, are protected by regulations.
Another factor in the NY Times article but not mentioned here, is that Instagram, ie Meta, is aware of this. Not ok.
Wow, Eliza! When I read about this, I say a prayer of gratitude for my very watchful, kind-but-firm mother and father. They sat down with us in front of that black and white television, monitoring the programs we viewed for bad language, violence and sexual content. Anyone else remember a show about vampires called Dark Shadows? Mom said something about "rotting the brain" and called me up from the tv room to help cook dinner. What happened to cooking?
Shutting down a child's account would not be 'giving in to bullies'. Bullies aren't the issue... sexual predators are, and they don't want the account shuttered. They want exactly what she'd now giving them. The incoherence of self-justification is a wonder to behold...
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The big eyeball grab moves downmarket into the burbs where bored housewives pimp out their daughters for a bagful of likes. How quickly our internet dreams turned into tawdry nightmares. As Ted Gioia said last week, the dopamine cartel is the largest pusher in the world.
What's going on with girls? We read Eliza to see the what happens (and why) when girls opt out of womanhood.
Reading this piece, I immediately thought of Caitlin Flanagan's book, Girl Land--published in 2013. This book was published just before the huge increase of girls taking on a trans identity.
I don't have a copy of Girl Land to review, but I recall thinking when I read it that there was much intentionally left unsaid. What C.F. left unsaid was: what about the girls who are uncomfortable being highly-sexualized? Where do they fit into the social world of the popular girls?
Wouldn’t this constitute child labor?
I would think so. Yet somehow this abuse of children is unregulated. Children who work in any other field, including entertainment, which I would call this, are protected by regulations.
Another factor in the NY Times article but not mentioned here, is that Instagram, ie Meta, is aware of this. Not ok.
Wow, Eliza! When I read about this, I say a prayer of gratitude for my very watchful, kind-but-firm mother and father. They sat down with us in front of that black and white television, monitoring the programs we viewed for bad language, violence and sexual content. Anyone else remember a show about vampires called Dark Shadows? Mom said something about "rotting the brain" and called me up from the tv room to help cook dinner. What happened to cooking?