[LMB] Explaining Stuff To Kids (was Re: Slash'n'Anime'n'Romance)OT:

[Tzivia Adler]

> Elizabeth McCoy wrote:
>> At 11:06 AM -0500 12/14/06, Tzivia Adler wrote: [...]
>>> ziviya, who just finished fumbling an explanation to a six year
>>> old:  -why- is that lady on the magazine taking off her underwear
>>> in a picture?  on the front page of a magazine? feh.
>>
>> When in doubt, make your tone as calm as possible, with occasional
>> "isn't culture weird sometimes?" notes,
it sure is.  one weird add, on the side of a store, shows a woman in a 
bikini and fur boots, in the snow, holding a beer can.  why would that 
picture sell beer?  does anyone think that buying this brand of beer is like 
rubbing a magic lamp, and a female in a bikini will be transported into his 
lap?

>>and expound until the child is bored stiff.
expounding is the difficult part, since it doesn't make sense to me at all.
>
> We got a LONG way with "you know how you play make-believe and dress-up 
> and stuff with your friends? Grown-ups play with other grownups like that 
> sometimes; they're games that are fun for us, but you wouldn't like them 
> yet."
>
> Of course, when it's something you don't want to condone, or are 
> conflicted on, it's trickier. Much.
>
> Marna.
>
we didn't actually look -in- the magazine.  we only saw the cover while 
waiting on line at the convenience store.  i think it was glamour magazine, 
or elle.  something to the effect that 'you can lose 10 pounds before the 
holiday!!!!!'

my point is that, as hard as i try to raise my daughter with positive 
body-image, and my boys to respect girls, it gets harder and harder when we 
can't avoid these images.  i don't buy the magazines -- and i don't buy beer 
from that store either --   but i -can't-   -aovid-  it.

iirc, this whole thread started with slash, and 'if you don't like seeing a 
whole gender sexualized, don't read it'.  well, how do i keep from 'read'ing 
this stuff?

ziviya 



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