“While headlines feign shock, gracing the pages of men’s magazines seems to have become a rite of passage for young female stars looking to shed oppressive little girl personas and assert themselves as capable adults. Which makes sense, because women’s power comes from making guys want to sleep with us, right?
Why do we continuously liken the release of these photos to “good" girls gone “bad"? Why do we still put such a premium on feminine purity that any evidence to the contrary becomes news?
Why, for women, does feeling like a grown up so often mean feeling like a sex object?
Because the message being promoting by all this fetishizing of child stars is that we’ve been ready for this all along. That inside every little girl, there’s a woman just waiting to be objectified.”
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Why do we continuously liken the release of these photos to “good" girls gone “bad"? Why do we still put such a premium on feminine purity that any evidence to the contrary becomes news?
Why, for women, does feeling like a grown up so often mean feeling like a sex object?
Because the message being promoting by all this fetishizing of child stars is that we’ve been ready for this all along. That inside every little girl, there’s a woman just waiting to be objectified.”
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