Please stick a knife in my temple

[Clive]

I need a brainwash...I don't want to know this anymore.

'Human Barbie' Gives 7-Year-Old Daughter Liposuction Voucher

[Amelia-Mary]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

That's sick. I bet the poor girl doesn't even realise what she's asking for...

[thalassa]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

Ugh...yet another reason to homeschool--so my kid doesn't get the idea that *that* (or anything remotely like it) is a positive image until they actually know what *it* is...

[shadow1982]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

What's really sad is that this woman has almost made a career out of this. She is constantly in magazines and has appeared on tv shows. Most of the time she is actually portrayed in a pretty negative light, but it's still publicity which is turning her in to some kind of celebrity. It really does boggle the mind!

[Dez]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

Gah....what has been seen cannot be unseen.

[DanieMarie]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

What's really sad is that this woman has almost made a career out of this. She is constantly in magazines and has appeared on tv shows. Most of the time she is actually portrayed in a pretty negative light, but it's still publicity which is turning her in to some kind of celebrity. It really does boggle the mind!

Yeah exactly. I really try to not give her any more attention. She just needs to fade away.

Though, when I do see her, I think 'she paid all that money to look like -that-?' Somewhere there were before pictures and she was a reasonably attractive woman.

[Trinity]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

*Head meets desk*

That is sick and wrong on SO many levels. What in the bloody heck is wrong with these people? Her daughters were screwed the moment they were born to her.

[B. de Corbin]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

Yeah, people shouldn't run around altering their bodies... Their kids might pick up the habit.

[Corvus]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

I need reprogramming. someone drain my memories of this (an the surrounding moments) and replace it with something less depressing. Like puppies. Thinking of puppies. Fluffy puppies. Cute fluffy puppies

[habbalah]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

Ugh. The sexualization of little girls is so overwhelmingly prevalent. And disgusting. If I had a dollar for every time I'd seen a little girl barely in double digit years wearing more makeup than I am, I could buy a house. If I had a dollar for every girl under the age of fifteen that I've seen in tiny shorts or a skirt, or crop tops, I could buy the furniture to go with that house.

[thalassa]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

Yeah, people shouldn't run around altering their bodies... Their kids might pick up the habit.

I've had plastic surgery--breast reduction surgery when I was 19. It made running easier, got rid of back pain that I was already having at 19, and surprisingly, it also got rid of my migraines. I would consider it again (since having children) were it fiscally feasible, simply because (realistically) there is only so much that diet, exercise and good clothing fixes after gaining 70 lbs with a giant almost-10 lb baby, and 5 pregnancies. I think the difference is that I will/would never encourage my child to get plastic surgery--unless it were to correct something like cleft palate or a deformative injury, nor do I ever plan to have so much plastic surgery that it is normalized as something to just go out and do because one doesn't like what they look like (most people don't like what they look like, and plastic surgery doesn't change that). Plastic surgery isn't the same as getting a hair cut or even something like a tattoo or even a cosmetic procedure like botox--its a major surgery, people cutting on your insides, and it has very real risks. The idea that a parent would not just normalize, but glamorize unnecessary elective surgery with no health benefits to the point of giving a small child gift vouchers, IMO, is irresponsible parenting...and setting a child up to some really effed up views of body image in the long term. And...the fact that it comes along with shows like Toddlers and Tiaras, the stardom of an entire family at the cost of the physical attractiveness of one, the sexualization of small children as routine (I saw padded bras at walmart in the little girls section and a family picking one out for what looked like a 6-8 year old a week or so ago)...gag.

[B. de Corbin]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

LOL - I wuz just teasin'.

I'm probably one of the very few people on this forum who does not have piercings or tattoos. Or even want them...

The sexualization of very young girls is very, very creepy - and it's so common that many people can't even see it, or see it for what it is when they do. I had to explain to my wife why my 12 year old daughter was not allowed to wear a tank top with a big picture of a cherry on it. I have a hard time believing that they even sell those to kids...

[thalassa]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

LOL - I wuz just teasin'.

lol, I figured you were just being sarcastic...and to some extent, I agree with the irony, but in this case, I think there is a difference.

[anunitu]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

When you see this,it is no wonder we are beset with pedophiles everywhere. Does a Pedophile watch these kinds of things as Pron?

[Clive]

Re: Please stick a knife in my temple

When you see this,it is no wonder we are beset with pedophiles everywhere. Does a Pedophile watch these kinds of things as Pron?

I wouldn't say that, exactly. The availability of children or their images doesn't create pedophiles...pedophilia will exist no matter what because it's a sexual orientation/paraphilia/mental illness (depending on whom you ask). I would say, however, that it does give pedophiles something to look at, yeah.