Look out, I'm on my damn soapbox.

I'm really fed up with the Kinder-whore outfits they have on sale for Halloween. WTF is WRONG with people that they would actually let their child wear something like that?! No, it's not cute to dress your elementary student in a little goth cheerleader outfit, complete with fishnet stockings and hooker boots. Really, what are we teaching our kids when we allow that? "Go ahead honey, exploit and objectify yourself." And then we act all shocked when we find out middle schoolers are performing oral sex on one another? Connect the friggin' dots. And oh yes, let's do buy a bunch of magazines with half-naked airbrushed models on them to lay around the house for our kids to see. After all, we want them to know that THAT is the standard to be measured up to - that's what women should look like - a bunch of stick thin sex objects. And don't forget that our sons are seeing it as well. So what do you think they're going to think of girls when they get bigger? Do you think that's teaching them respect? Yes, all those pop and hip-hop "artists" are so respectful to women - especially in the videos. Wake the hell up America! It's up to us to teach our kids about modesty, respect, self-esteem, relationships, and sex. Pretty impossible when they are bombarded by inappropriate media images and messages. Those companies know what they are doing - they've done the research. Sex sells, so they sell it at a younger and younger age.

Why the diatribe, you ask? No, I'm not some bible preaching conservative whack job (quite the opposite really). I read a book that opened my eyes - "So Sexy, So soon."
www.sosexysosoon.com
Buy it, read it, live it. Your children will be better off because of it.