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To share this video...swearing princesses.

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ClapHandsIfYouBelieveInFatties · 23/10/2014 19:34

love it and after contributing to a thread today where some posters felt that girls need to learn to deal with being told to "suck my cock" I feel it's timely.

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LongDistanceLove · 25/10/2014 11:07

FCKH8 are a very morally questionable company themselves, they regularly steal ideas from established charities and thus take money from charities including feminist charities.

After the shooting in Ferguson, they all of a sudden started producing anti racism tshirts, profiting from a kids death.

As for the video, it's done its job, it's gone viral, no doubt they've made money from it which is its intended purpose. I just can't get over them exploiting young girls to do it. I think the message is lost and it does a disservice to feminism.

CinderellaRockefeller · 25/10/2014 11:38

The why shouldn't women swear is a red herring as if it was little boys in the video I'd feel exactly the same. So it's not about it being shocking because they're girls. It's because they're children. they create the false argument that if you're offended about little girls swearing you're sexist and this is feminism.

pigsDOfly · 25/10/2014 12:23

The point where the five of them ask which one will be raped made you gulp outofcontrol, really?

I'm not bothered by swearing either, but the idea of anyone being raped makes me more than gulp and the question 'if and when am I going to be raped' coming from the mouth of a child sickens me, even if, as pps claim, it's been dubbed.

This video is neither cute nor funny. It's nasty and exploitative.

Everyotherfreckle · 25/10/2014 13:27

Huh? Very Young girls shouting 'we need to teach boys not to FUCKING RAPE!' is cute?! Wtf?

I don't like the idea either that in order to be 'true feminists' girls and women have to be really irritating shout and screech and swear.

I think it does look a bit dubbed in places actually, but those are still the voices of young girls that have been used arent they? I think it's kind of worse in a way if it has been dubbed actually, because then the girls bodies have been used basically as mannequins to convey a message that they cannot possibly understand.

Anyhow any sort of message that this video did contain has been pretty lost amongst the discussion of whether its appropriate for young girls to appear in this sort of thing, so it definitely hasn't raised any sort of awareness I don't think.

saintsandpoets · 25/10/2014 13:37

I think it is very powerful.

AlbaGuBrath · 25/10/2014 14:29

Cute? What now?

Fakebook · 25/10/2014 14:45

Hate it. It came up on my vine homepage this morning. Little girls talking about rape? It's not just rape with children involved is it? It's child abuse.

BackOnlyBriefly · 25/10/2014 14:52

Well I bought a t-shirt so I'd say it was a success.

in the next advertisement will they be posed draped over cars to show how wrong that is?.

LongDistanceLove · 26/10/2014 17:57

Yes you have bought a t-shirt. One that cares more about profit than the people it's meant to represent.

I feel sad that you have been sucked in.

kali110 · 26/10/2014 20:01

It's not about the fact its little girls swearing, i'd be shocked if it were boys.

manicinsomniac · 26/10/2014 21:31

I hated it. Liked the message but found the swearing tacky and was appalled by the references to rape and the 1,2,3,4,5 bit by children who looked as young as 6 or 7. A child that young does not need to know about that.

If it is dubbed then that makes it a little bit better in my eyes. But, I don't know. They sounded like little kid's voices.

TraceyTrickster · 27/10/2014 03:36

I find it sad that little girls aged about 6 (missing teeth) are talking about tits and ass and saying 'we should not be raped'.

I want to protect my DD but why does that need to be me telling her about rape? She will find out in due course how horrible the world can be. Right now she knows no-one should touch her unless she asks them to (ie doc or mum if she has something wrong) so I think that is enough. I also have not gone on about terrorists, HIV, malnutrition, etc...these are things a little kid should not be worrying about.

I hate the video.

claraschu · 27/10/2014 06:10

6 year olds don't understand what rape is, even if they memorise a bunch of lines and repeat them. Those girls would have had fun acting all obnoxious and being praised for repeating a lot of meaningless grown up words. They will not have been trumatised by an early understanding of violence and inequality because there is no way they will have understood.

Madamecastafiore · 27/10/2014 06:17

Just horrid.

differentnameforthis · 27/10/2014 07:36

the swearing is merely to gain attention AND to point out that it is far LESS offensive than women getting paid less still...in this day and age!

I turned it off after a couple of minutes, pissed off by the relentless finger wagging & arms flying around... all it does, imo is make those little girls look daft & way too adult for my liking!

differentnameforthis · 28/10/2014 02:39

You don't have to buy the t- shirts. It still gets the message across. Does it?

The only message I get is "it's ok to exploit young girls in order for a company to make money"

Love some parts - especially the counting So do you love that those 5 girls are now aware that in their future, one of them will be sexually assaulted/raped? Because that is what they have walked away with.

I have a 6 & 11yr old. I don't want them knowing that shit yet!

I think it's kind of worse in a way if it has been dubbed actually, because then the girls bodies have been used basically as mannequins to convey a message that they cannot possibly understand.

Absolutely this!!

www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/13/1329636/-FCK-FCKH8#

www.dailydot.com/business/fckh8-ferguson-t-shirt/

6 year olds don't understand what rape is, even if they memorise a bunch of lines and repeat them. I'm guessing that you don't know many 6yr old girls? Because ALL the 6yr olds I Know would ask what it was!

differentnameforthis · 28/10/2014 02:40

This sums up nicely why I don't like it.

To share this video...swearing princesses.
ElephantsNeverForgive · 29/10/2014 00:06

They are 6&11, they'll think avoiding rape is just a matter of kicking the bloke in the balls, it won't upset them.

ElephantsNeverForgive · 29/10/2014 00:17

Differentnameforthis some good points in that, especially that it does verge on sexualising children.

But point 2 is just daft. DDs school did a play requiring various stroppy fairies, they all did attitude just like that (my DD included). We have no black women to copy and I can't think of any character DDs watch on TV for it to come from either.

And point 10 at no point does it infer the age the girls will be raped at.

KimberBentonIsGoingSolo · 29/10/2014 00:25

I think it's funny and clever. It is dubbed and beautifully edited. I don't remember the Tshirt, but I remember the message Grin

So all of what they said was brand new information to you? That's almost as disgusting as the video itself.

claraschu · 29/10/2014 05:15

Differentname: Yes I know a lot of girls, ad of course they would ask what rape is. My point is that they wouldn't understand what rape REALLY is, because it is completely beyond their experience. They don't understand what sex is either, if that is explained to them.

Rape is not a word I would choose to explain to my 6 year old, but if I had to explain it (because she had asked), I could do it without her ending up traumatised.

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