dlowan wrote:dyslexia wrote:actually msolga I'm inclined think that it's the young females that have the fantasy and that young males are essentially clueless other than the display of the females fantasy about the males fantasies.
If anyone's fantasies are being displayed, it is not, I think, those of the boys in the girls' actual milieu, it is those of the fashion/pop/ etc folk who somehow decree what is cool this week.
How THEY get their ideas one has no idea....
But they certainly, I think, end up being part of the girls' fantasies about their presentation.
Yes, I agree, Deb. And this influence is not only on adolescent girls. I'd include girls as young as year 7 (11, 12 year olds) from what I see around me in my work. I don't know why it's so
unfashionable to express concern about the image makers' influence on young girls, especially. You run the risk of being considered a wowser or a prude. Or your concerns are considered a joke. What I'm trying to say that I
am concerned by the influence of the image makers on girls, particularly when sexuality (in image & attitude) is projected as being cool to very young girls. I'm not talking about
repressing their sexuality at all (as if you could, even if you wanted too!) ... I guess I'm talking about is not exploiting the vulnerability of young girls' insecurities for marketing motives .... I just wish young people (of both sexes, for that matter) could grow up at their own pace, in a more supportive, less exploitative climate. Life is tough enough for them already, without this added pressure. <sigh>
