Sexaulization of Children
I honestly donât know why the statement. âchildren shouldnât be sexualized,â has to be regurgitated so many times in order for people to get it through their thick skulls that, CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE SEXUALIZED. Ever since the rise of IT, many people have shown their creepy side, and since the release of Stranger Things 2, it has grown progressively worse.Â
I donât understand how you can look at 13, 14, 14, 16 year olds and think, âYup, I wanna fuck.â How does that even go through your fucking heads? Iâm sorry, but why are you 18+ years old obsessing over children in the first place, sexual or not? You could be innocently stanning these kids, but people have the right to be a bit creeped out by it as you are an adult STANNING a fucking kid. Liking them is okay, but to be completely devoted to them? Yeah, itâs weird.Â
I guess I could just sit here and say, âyeah, itâs bad,â but since yall are dense and still canât understand why itâs bad, let me just break this down for you.Â
1. When you make harmful jokes like this:
it perpetuates this idea that thinking about children sexually is okay, which itâs not.I donât care if you want him to âhit you up in 4 yearsâ when heâs legally an adult, youâre still thinking about this child sexually, which I stated before, is wrong. Our society is already so fucked up, we donât need to normalize sexualization of children, itâs just gross and it makes you a pedophile.Â
2. Weâre already gravitating towards this idea that if these children joke about their relationship, that itâs okay to ship them, and I have some news for you, itâs not okay. Itâs not okay to ship actual actors in general, but when you do it to children, thatâs when you cross the line, especially when youâre trying to force a sexuality onto them.
Iâm sure some of yâall recognize this gem, when Jack Grazer, a 14 year old actor, expressed his feelings on people shipping him and Finn, ultimately creating âfack,â many fans twisted his words and attacked him. Some felt as though he was diminishing the fictional ship, Reddie, when he so clearly states that heâs talking about him and Finn, but not only that, people were upset that he would even say something like this.
Iâm sorry, but when was it bad for a child to feel uncomfortable with people assuming that heâs gay? When was it bad for a child to feel annoyed that people are shipping him and his close friend and even going as far as writing disgusting, sexual, fanfictions about them? I donât give a fuck if these two CHILDREN joked about it. Theyâre kids, they joke about everything and because theyâre young and dumb, theyâre going to assume that everything they *joke* about is going to be a joke to everyone else.Â
No, just...no. If youâve ever been to middle school or youâre in high school, you should know that boys will joke about anything that comes to their mind, even about a ship.
3. Kids are young and impressionable, theyâre easier to manipulate and it worries me that these kids can be taken advantage of, especially when you have headlines like this:
MILLIE ISNâTÂ âSEXY,â SHEâS 13!
There are so many child actors and actresses that are taken advantage of by predatory men in Hollywood, thatâs why itâs so dangerous for people to sexualize them. Itâs like when you want to grab a cookie from the cookie jar, you donât want to get in trouble but then you see someone else do it, so now you think you can get a cookie too. Once it becomes a trend, more people think itâs okay, and like Iâve stated before, itâs suddenly normalized. For fucks sake, you already have creeps trying to categorize pedophilia as a sexual orientation.
So in conclusion, STOP sexualizing children, STOP joking about it, and STOP making it seem like itâs okay for others to do it you fucking creeps.
