11 Year Old Grown Ups

I went to the mall today for lunch, because my cupboards are looking rather bare and the things I do have I cannot eat due to the fact that carbs make my blood sugar spike. I could have gone to the grocery store to stock up on real food but that makes far too much sense and is too practical. I will leave it to the June Cleaver sorts to do smart things like grocery shop.

So off the to mall we went, to get irresponsible food for the kids responsible food for me. FYI, I am still hungry. And now I am home again with carbs staring at me in the face. I'm not going to lie, it hurts a little.

Anyway, the point in telling you all this is that I want to make a comment on all those pre-teen girls at the mall, the ones wearing mini-skirts and high heels. What is up with that???

I found myself zoning out on someone's feet, which were clad in wedge heels. Those are cute shoes, I thought to myself. Being a girl and all, and having interest in fashionable things on occasion, I decided to aim the eyeballs upwards to see what outfit one pairs with those shoes. My eyes traveled up the person's bony legs, and saw a fashionable but very short skirt and tank top. But something seemed off. The body type was far too thin and small to be a grown woman. My eyes made it all the way up to the face of the owner of those shoes, and I was shocked to see that the owner of the shoes and mini skirt was an 11 year old girl.

As we walked through the mall, I began noticing more and more of these types. Young girls, many of whom have either not yet hit puberty or were in the first dawn of it, and carrying Victoria's Secret shopping bags.

Why?? Why. These are children. And they are dressing and acting like they are grown ups. What has happened to our society? There are many things I could complain about in regards to our society, but right now I am just going to focus on this one little aspect. Wait, let me climb up onto my soap box for a sec before I launch into this. Ok, here goes.

It says something pretty sad about us as a whole when our children are dressing like adults. Not even just adults - like skanky adults. They wear outfits meant to reveal their bodies for the visual consumption of men. High heels to lengthen their legs and force their bust and their bums to stick out unnaturally. Short skirts to invite to the eye to travel upwards. Tight shirts to reveal what? Bony A-cup chests? And let me just ask - what can these young girls possibly need Victoria's Secret underwear for?? Who is going to see it, anyway? The answer to that is what worries me.

The whole idea of these young girls dressing and acting like sexualized adults has me completely disgusted. They are being indoctrinated by our society to treat their bodies like something entirely common, to be adorned and put on display. To what purpose? Well, follow it to its natural conclusion and you can see that the purpose is to attract men. I would ask where these girls' fathers are, but I actually passed by one bony little child in high heels and a mini skirt who was walking alongside her father.

Maybe some of my readers have children of this age who dress like that. And if you do, please tell me why you allow it. Don't you worry about inappropriate attention from older men? If you buy your daughter Victoria's Secret underwear, can you tell me what purpose that ultimately serves? And don't tell me its confidence building or that it helps with self-esteem, because I am not buying it. Learning to play sports or how to play an instrument builds self-confidence. Beauty and youth are fleeting - so I hope you are not going to tell me that you are pinning your child's self-worth on something that is going to fade. Besides, you can dress very nicely and fashionably without revealing just about every inch of your body.

Maybe I am more sensitive to the darker side of human nature because I live in Sin City and all... but I really cannot think what positive purpose it would serve to allow your daughter to dress in skimpy grown up clothes. Someone enlighten me... please.