*He's 16. So he's suddenly legal. Which means there are options that three months ago there would not have been. So that's diverting. Hot. Ready. Legal.
This IS disgusting. The fact that it happens to girls too shouldn't mean we cant express our revulsion here and now. This sort of shit should be called out every time.*
EXACTLY. It's not OK – the fact that some adult men see girls that way too, and that them turning 16 gets covered in the press too, does not make this OK.
Also, while I agree it happens to girls, I doubt something this extreme and direct would get printed in Tatler, the DM etc. "All grown up" applied to 16yo girls is smirking, sexualised code for "Oh loooooook, this girl has grown some tits and hips and now we can see her as a sex object!" And that's bad.
But "Hot. Ready. Legal."
is even worse. It's just blatant, aggressive objectification that enforces on BB the position of being "Ready" for whoever wishes to lech over him, without him having a say. Awful and unforgiveable.