Just as I was about to write in response to Andreia's comment (no direct linking to comments I could see) to a post ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lost_angelwings showed me earlier (concerning those awful over-sexualised Bratz Baby Dolls), I stumble across something similar but written much, much better than I would have managed and wider in scope.
Go read.
Actually it is not quite the same topic, although a very worthy one and one that is a continuous work in progress in my own life. I wanted to write about the illogic of blaming people like Paris Hilton for trends in society and marketing. She does not, so far as I know, own the clothing lines or toy companies or whatever that are actually bothering people, nor the media outlets which continue to spotlight attention on her (did you know she is not an only child? I did not until I looked up the Wikipedia article on the Hilton family - somehow I felt that siblings would constitute evidence for my case).
As much as I disapprove of her behaviour (that I hear about), what I believe is bothering people is not that so much as the attention she receives, attention that is bestowed on her by outside agencies. Come to that, most, perhaps all the attention I have seen her receive has been mocking or negative - if this is what young girls are encouraged to aspire to it is something they will receive no respect for except perhaps from each other. But we all knew that already.
I suppose the problem is, I suppose, it is much easier to blame an individual than a variety of large amorphous companies.
lost_angelwings showed me earlier (concerning those awful over-sexualised Bratz Baby Dolls), I stumble across something similar but written much, much better than I would have managed and wider in scope.Go read.
Actually it is not quite the same topic, although a very worthy one and one that is a continuous work in progress in my own life. I wanted to write about the illogic of blaming people like Paris Hilton for trends in society and marketing. She does not, so far as I know, own the clothing lines or toy companies or whatever that are actually bothering people, nor the media outlets which continue to spotlight attention on her (did you know she is not an only child? I did not until I looked up the Wikipedia article on the Hilton family - somehow I felt that siblings would constitute evidence for my case).
As much as I disapprove of her behaviour (that I hear about), what I believe is bothering people is not that so much as the attention she receives, attention that is bestowed on her by outside agencies. Come to that, most, perhaps all the attention I have seen her receive has been mocking or negative - if this is what young girls are encouraged to aspire to it is something they will receive no respect for except perhaps from each other. But we all knew that already.
I suppose the problem is, I suppose, it is much easier to blame an individual than a variety of large amorphous companies.
