Young people and photographs

But already my 7 year old girl is copying provocative dance moves she's seen.
Thats the point isnt it Chestnut It amounts to mild grooming.

Your point about the mini skirt is interesting Hithere, because I would suggest it too was used to help move societies attitudes towards accepting new sexual freedoms for women.

The point being made is that the normalising of sexualised behaviour leads to younger and younger children copying it.

I'm afraid I dont really understand why you think it's revolting and sick or disgusting to discuss this?

There is a world of depravity out there and I worry desperately about how this will all affect my grandchildren who are too young just yet. But already my 7 year old girl is copying provocative dance moves she's seen.

It's the youth of today - vain, self-obsessed, it makes me cringe. It's all imaginery life, fakery, competitiveness - nothing is real anymore, look at WAG's how they carry on, everyone thinks they're a superstar these days including every day people. My 62 year old sister puts photos on of her & writes stuff in the the same twang as her 30 year old daughter, it's embarrassing - people copy others without even thinking what a tw*at they're making themselves look, but hey ??

Many years ago, a colleague told me her husband had said that teenage girls who wore provocative clothing deserved to be sexually assaulted.
She was horrified and told him that young girls were following fashion and had no idea of the effect they might have on men, and that men should control themselves.
I agreed with her.

I think it's still the case that young people are following fashion but now much of fashion and popular music is a lot more influenced by porn.

Well it's about porn for me and social media and the impact it has on young women. So am going to keep talking about it. I am not sexualising young women at all, discussing the influence these things can have on women.

This is not about porn, it is about how pics and selfies are taken by young women, severely judged and sexualized by older women who are not impacted by those pics and don't mind their business

Lots of young women talk about the negative impact porn for example has on them I am surprised you havent heard discussions on those issues.

Older or younger, in my entourage, we do not assign that meaning for that.

I truly do not think everything young women do has a sexual meaning, unlike some posters here: makeup, clothes, how they walk - it is interpreted as oversezualized by the older generation in this board.

Who is sexualizing whom?

When did the miniskirt come out? I would have loved to hear what your parents and grandparents thought of that

Actually I was surprised at Hithere's post.
I can understand a young girl not realising the manipulation that society (some members anyway) put them under.
But I assumed that an older woman would have come across some thing similar along the way.

People forget that potential employers look at them on social media. By which time they’ve queered their pitch.

And then they complain when young men see them as sex objects. If you behave like a sex object then that is the message you're putting out.

Hithere said she finds seeing posters assign “ulterior motives” to a pout in a pic utterly revolting.

Pouting has always been a sexual signal which I find utterly disgusting, especially when photographed. It is not the Gransnet posters who assign ulterior motives. It is the young women who pose in this way who are being revolting.

Hithere

This is the second or third thread with same complaint.

It is the fashionable thing to do, period

What did you do in your youth that was frown upon by older generation?

Honestly, how people decide to take their own pics is none of your business. Live and let live

One big problem. These photos will often end up on the net, whether deliberately or inadvertently and could cause problems for the poster/subject at a later date.

Unbeknownst to me my parents were in the same cinema as me and a boy and caught us necking. My father was absolutely furious and hauled me out. So embarrassing.

Once I reached 18 I could do pretty much what I wanted but I would never have slept with a boyfriend at my parents' home. So I suppose that the naughty things were smoking (cigs not dope - that came later) and the occasional cider.

I suppose it depends on what you mean as prudish MayBee
Could it be we fell for the sexual mores of our day, and having done so find the scales have fallen from our eyes as we got older, and found it easier to see how today's youngsters are subjected to current sexual propaganda?

I’ve noticed that on several Facebook pages I’m on some young women make a point of putting a selfie up of them showing a lot of cleavage. It seems to me they just use the subject matter as an excuse to put a slightly risqué picture of themselves up and the moderators don’t notice. Or is it me being horribly old and prudish.

Hithere

It is trily disgusting seeing posters assign ulterior motives to a pout in a pic - uterly revolting and sick

Isn't there more important things to take care of? Jfc

If this answer is in relation to my post, it's just ill informed. Plenty to read on the subject matter out there.
I happen to think psychological grooming of young girls very important.

I'm sure Madonna knows exactly what she's doing.

Hithere

It is trily disgusting seeing posters assign ulterior motives to a pout in a pic - uterly revolting and sick

Isn't there more important things to take care of? Jfc

It's not an ulterior motive, it's a known fact, although I'm sure a lot of youngsters have no idea what they're doing when they have lip fillers and pout at the camera. So it's not always deliberate on their part.

Chestnut

*Well, the truth is it's all about reminding men of women's genitalia, (as if they needed any help in that dept)*

And as usual Madonna leads the way in obscene and age-inappropriate images.

The last pic I saw of Madonna and tree was truly horrible Chestnut

Aren't not isnt

It is trily disgusting seeing posters assign ulterior motives to a pout in a pic - uterly revolting and sick

Isn't there more important things to take care of? Jfc

JaneJudge

I had no idea pouting = vulva
wtf

I am going to have to bleach my brain

?? I know how you feel!

JaneJudge can’t unsee it ??

I had no idea pouting = vulva
wtf

I am going to have to bleach my brain

Well, the truth is it's all about reminding men of women's genitalia, (as if they needed any help in that dept)

And as usual Madonna leads the way in obscene and age-inappropriate images.