8y old girl we gym in bra top and leggings

[KarlWrenbury]

Was at gym. Girl with her mum but wearing the kind of gym wear a 23 y old would wear.

I had a judgemental moment. It just seemed weird.

@ThisNoisyTealLurker ir is. Large pants

It used to be pretty normal - if she's not started puberty yet what would the top be hiding?

Nike pro shorts. They're all the rage and look more like underwear or swimwear to me.

Bras are a pain, there's more than enough years of dealing with them. Wearing one before it's needed sounds like a weird torture to me.

It’s how TikTok tells them they should look. It’s not an empowered fashion choice- it’s the commercialisa of girl’s bodies by an industry that needs then to be constantly buying items to fit arbitrary beauty standards.

It bullshit.

And the issue is the men in that scenario not the young girls. By all means call out the men who are looking at them inappropriately.

Mine wears shorts and t-shirts for a lot of her activities, they are comfortable and enable her to move. I feel uncomfortable with what Op describes it feels like objectification of children’s bodies. Like dressing them as a mini adult rather than a child. I think kids are rushed towards adulthood too fast.

@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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I agree with you OP, that sounds inappropriate.

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

Why share then?

Most sports places sell kids gym gear now.

A child wearing gym wear in a gym. How shocking

@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!

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.

why?

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

what's the issue??

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.

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?

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 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.