To think that PLAYBOY items aimed at young girls should be banned

[jezzemx]

My DD is off school poorly and she is in the process of writing her Christmas list to Santa.
Amongst other things she has asked for "PLAYBOY STUFF" such as bag, pens, pencils, hair bobbles etc. All she sees is a nice pink rabbit stamped on everything and thinks they are cute and all I associate the trademark with, is nude big bossomed girls am I the only one that thinks they should be banned!!!

Actually, I don't think "banned" is putting it too strongly.

Maybe get her one of these as a more innocuous alternative?

Sleepy Bunny
Bunny Face
Bunny with Headphones
I Love Bunnies
B is for Bunny
Snuggle Bunny
Bunny Rock

Thanks for the alternatives.
I think Santa can send Hello Kitty items instead

Of course it should be banned. I'm shocked by how many parents by this stuff for their little girls

Hello Kitty is incredibly cool, with none of the upsetting connotations of the rampant rabbit playboy bunny.

www.katzwhiskas.co.uk/contentcollectionpage~Type~2~Category~48492.aspx?googlead=yes&kw=hello%20kitty %20uk&fl=45738

aahhh thats better. Many thanks colditz

I think it's impossible to ban it.

And anyway, I'm usually always agin banning.

David Cameron was on the news just now slating the playboy bunny stuff as part of a general argument on society being too sexualised. He wants permament funding for Rape Crisis Centres (so many have closed we have fewer now than we did in the mid-80s), and compulsory education on consent to be included in sex ed. And something else I've already forgotten!

Ugh, I can't stand the playboy stuff, my DD is almost 7 and has obviously seen girls with their knockers out on the front of FHM etc in shops/garages and the such.
She asked me why once, and I had no clue what to tell her, so she ended up with the explanation that some silly men out there have no respect for girls, and think that looking at their boobs is nice(which is fine if you are real boyfriend and girlfriend that are going to et married, and are a grown up but not if you're not) the same silly men buy these magazines.
Also some silly girls really want a boyfriend, or hve been told horrible things like theyre ugly, by horrible people and think that these magazines are making them look pretty to the silly men not thinking that that isn't the sort of man they really want as a boyfriend, so they do those pictures.
She was terribly disappointed by these silly people! So I think if she asked about playboy items I would probably tell her the same story.

there isn't an election coming up, is there?

lol pointydog. rape crisis centres.. tory concern.. no, sorry, you'll have to run that one by me again.

It's not just Playboy stuff is it though? Perhaps i am a little more sensitive to this kind of thing being a dad - but a few years ago when my eldest DD was into Bratz she asked for some Bratz clothing. I went along to have a look at some as a present and was shocked to see the clothes would have made her look like a cheap tart.

Wholly inappropriate for a small child. Short skirts and crop tops and shit like that. Was quite angry about it.

No you're not being unreasonable and its astonishing that in our society which is so concerned about paeophilia would tolerate shops like WH Smiths and Argos selling a pornography brand to little girls. Really, what is UP with that?

There are some campaigns running against Grandad Perv Hefner and his pornography empire though:

binthebunny.wordpress.com/

waay back in the mists of time when I had a brain I seem to remember that various thinkers had suggested that sexualization of young girls was in fact the other side of the coin to paedo obsession.. ie that far from being opposite impulses they were intrinsically linked... If I can locate brain will ask it for more info.

Someone posted here a while back asking for playboy bedroom stuff for their DD aged about 10.

i was stunned.

her argument was that for her daughter it was just a bunny, she didnt know what it meant.

my argument was that it was linked to teh exploitation of women and degredation of the female gender. the actualy symbol of the bunny was because of the conotation that playboy girls f*ck like bunnies.
Im sure most parents want that for their pre teen.

as i said then, if your son came in asking for nazi memorobilia and Shwastika's all over his bedroom would you say "ok dear, as you dont really understand what it means i shall let you have it" or would you sit down and exlain why it was such a revolting symbol and all that it represents. then tell him no!

yanbu

not quite the same. A better analogy would be if swastikas became popular symbols used on lots of kids' stationery, phone cases etc etc. Without the children knowing any of the history. (Although of course the histiry of the swastika is a lot more complicated and goes much further back than WWII).

no YANBU

There you are, then, jezzemx -- buy her a "Bin the Bunny" T-shirt and kill two birds with one stone .

There's also the Miffy brand, which is a lot cuter than the Playboy bunny (which is a very ugly thing when you actually look at it) -

miffy shop

of course pointy - the swastika was actually a peace symbol originally if my memory serves me right. such a tragedy that it could be twisted to mean the exact opposite

Playboy for young girls is vile - sexualising young children is sooo wrong.

I remember the post a few months ago about the person wanting playboy bedroom gear for her 7 year old - massive reaction to that one.

Bratz was mentioned, almost as bad I think.