8y old girl we gym in bra top and leggings

Pedophiles would be overjoyed to get a better look at an 8yo resembling an ironing board and if you send your child out with her stomach on show and tight pants like leggings you are offering them up on a plate. Adult women have creep shots taken of them while grocery shopping, in the gym, jogging etc, it's your responsibility as a parent to prevent access of your child to pedophiles as much as possible or they could be circulating on the internet forever with men masturbating over them. Kids should be able to wear whatever they want, but they can't without that risk. It's even worse now that everyone has a smart phone.

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If by "gym" you mean the room with machines and weights, I'd be more concerned about the safety of undersized children being in there than their attire”

Absolutely this. It’s dangerous.

Namenamchange · Yesterday 20:41
Why aren’t 8 year old boys encourage to wear tight tops and figure hugging bottoms?”

Most do in the swimming pool 🤷‍♀️

Practical sports wear for doing sports; not a problem.

If by "gym" you mean the room with machines and weights, I'd be more concerned about the safety of undersized children being in there than their attire.

Males are increasingly wearing leggings for sport- usually outdoors. They often workout in skimpy vests in the gym or take t-shirts off outside in good weather. Tight cycling shorts are often an option too, although do tend to be worn longer than female hotpants style.

@Bigcat25 so then by your reckoning then children wouldn't be abused of they were covered up?

I have news for you, abuse happens because of a f**ked up person not what a child wears. That I can actually personally confirm.

The suggestion of clothing making a child a target is lazy and victim blaming.

At a similar age my mum was photographed in knickers and pigtails on the beach.

It's innocent.

A changing room is not in public. Of course some clothing sexualizes them, I think unnecessarily. Plenty of us have done sports/dance without issue without wearing shorts that cover little more than underwear or bra tops. I guess I don't get why one has to be wearing so little to be comfortable.

I'm not saying kids should be dressed like they're Amish of course but why don't people want to protect their kids from any creeps that might be out there?

if it's appropriate then let's dress our boys in shiny tight pants too. Maybe even those ruched stitched shorts that really emphasise the arse crack.

You've not watched Dance Moms on TV then?
Although I'm with you on not liking the bra top and skimpy shorts gym wear on little girls.

If you bothered to read back you will see that the post I was answering was referring to teenagers.

You do understand that women's fashion deliberately sexualizes women's bodies? Or do you think it leave their boobs and butts out just because?

The fact that it's a teenage girl wearing it doesn't change that.

I honestly wonder how naive some women are. Are you unable to see sexualization in pop culture, the media, advertising, or do those go right over your head too?

Somehow it's all the male people who unnatural tend to interpret breasts as having a sexual element, while fashion designers, and magazines, and pop culture icons would never have such a thing cross their minds?

Before calling people weird you might want to read the independent Government report presented to parliament on this topic.

55 per cent of parents surveyed thought that adult style clothes for children in
shops encourage children to act older than they are.

45 per cent of parents surveyed thought that adult-style clothes for children put pressure on children to conform to a particular body shape and size.

why?

people are so weird about this. Most 8 year olds resemble ironing boards?

what's the issue??

That's what I was thinking. My DS does gymnastics at the same time as an older girls class and quite a few of the 8/9/10 year old girls wear crop tops and leggings or bike shorts. I never thought anything of it.

@TempestTost how dare you say that seeing a child in a choice of clothing sexualises them. So by that standard a child in a two piece , in their underwear in a changing room. That is pure and utter crap said by abusers!

A child wearing gym wear in a gym. How shocking

Most sports places sell kids gym gear now.

Why share then?

In the gym/dance class/ gymnastics - fine
out to the shops/dinner---- at granny’s/cinema - not fine

I agree with you OP, that sounds inappropriate.

Dancers and gymnasts wear those crop tops all the time partially for personal choice but also if you doing acro the friction is better skin to skin rather than skin to lycra.

Weird af, everyone saying "it's a you problem!!!" is moronic and anyone who also dresses their kid like that is exposing their kids to men in an outfit that men routinely masturbate to on adult women, right or wrong. Yes your child can dress like that, you could also walk them down the street in a bikini, but we're not living in a utopia free of sickos. There are websites on the surface web dedicated to taking pictures of kids in those nike shorts so god knows what else is out there. Wouldn't want my kids being a part of it as some empowered woman move of being able to wear whatever they want.

The clothes are designed to sexualize their bodies to the people who see them. How are people not supposed to notice this? The whole point of the design is to elicit a sexual response.

I am not sure what the thought process is supposed to be for the man in this scenario.. "Oh look, young girls who are quite attractive in clothes that are highlighting all the most sexually alluring parts of their female bodies. Oh gosh, I'm not supposed to notice that because they are teenagers! Abort!!!"

The fact that some young girls don't realize this and just think it's fashion is a failure on the part of the adults in their lives.

12yr old DD wears crop tops & Nike Pros for athletics - both training and competing. It’s fine at the track in my view. I don’t think I’d be keen on her going shopping in them, although she’s not tried to yet, she sees them as her training kit I think.

I agree with you OP.
I hate to see young children dressed as imitation adults. Childhood is short enough.

@OMGsamesame I know you're right. Not sure what made me cringe a bit -the fact I saw the photos on sm?

Bra would be worse. She's only a child.