Literally feeling sick to my stomach presently as to what I'm witnessing lately and I have to share it because it's truly disturbing. Over the weekend I stumbled onto this article which outlined a French designer's defense of her lingerie line aimed at 4-12 year old girls. A slide show of the adverts can be found here. At least the adverts purportedly contributed to France outlawing child beauty pageants. But in the United States?--hey, we barely think about JonBenet Ramsey much less talk about why what happened to her, happened to her, unfortunately so long ago. (JonBenet) Instead we now love to hate Honey Boo-Boo and ogle at "Toddlers & Tiaras". (Honey Boo-Boo) I'd choke on my 'freedom fries' if the American Senate looked to the French Senate as an ethical example to set a new standard, allowing little girls to remain unsexualized, but sadly, I know that day--if ...
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