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Let Children be Children

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Bellie · 04/06/2011 09:28

Wow! Well done mumsnet!

www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jun/03/cameron-backed-report-commercialisation-childhood?CMP=twt_gu

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Threadworm8 · 10/06/2011 09:46

Perhaps you could post your thouhgts on the webchat thread takethat? It seems not really to have tackled the report yet.

swanker · 10/06/2011 09:52

Some excellent posts on this thread; marking my place to read more thoroughly later.

GeraldineMumsnet · 10/06/2011 10:16

Morning, a reminder that Reg Bailey is at MNHQ at 11am today if you'd like to put any of your points to him - over here...

takethatlady · 10/06/2011 11:19

Thanks threadworm! Have just copied and pasted most of this over to webchat.

Pregnant with DD1 (due in 2 weeks) so these issues feel very pertinent to me right now!

Piranha1981 · 10/06/2011 11:34

Threadworm / Takethatlady- yes! (and to the posters who linked to the guardian cif articles too). Thanks for what you've both said- very eloquent and expresses how I feel about the issue I think. Having a 17 wo dd is really making me think about all this and resent how she is already getting shoehorned into a particular role by shops, marketing and well meaning relatives who buy into gender stereotyping. Nothing wrong with pink per se, but it is certainly not the only colour!

On iPhone so can't comment much more but didn't want to read and run...

AdelaofBlois · 10/06/2011 11:35

Have to say I am rather bothered by this, generally laudable as it is. Many posters have touched on them but my concerns would be: 1. 'Girl' is a younger version of 'woman', there is concern over girls being like young women who are reduced to sexual obejcts, but no recognition that raunch cultures ideal of womanhood is itself so flawed. The debate is then a little meaningless, a game of guessing the age it's OK, not dealing with the issue; 2. It's all about girls in some sort of 'purity' way, no recognition that if heterosexual children are being over-sexualised then boys must be too, because active taking is 'masculine' but also not directly 'sexual' and 3. Am rather bothered by parental decisions about what is 'appropriate'-can easily see a mixed-sex couple talking in a bed in a sitcom being fine, but two men doing the same being a loss of innocence, or a teenage girl stating she wants a shag being 'wrong' but it being natural for a boy to say the same.

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