Reason Magazine columnist Kerry Howley writes about the growing controversy over the sexualization of young girls and wonders where the problem really is:
Without any mechanism to explain the process by which precocious fashion taste turns to self-loathing, it?s probably safest to assume that the kid’s department at Penny’s and the darkest recesses of American culture exist a world apart. Girls, as they always have, will alternately embrace the trappings of girlhood and struggle against the mythologies of gender. Parents and soi-disant experts will continue to cluck their tongues, and possibly publish papers. Objecting to the fashion choices of the young is perfectly natural. While girls may be baring more skin than ever, the need to dress disapproval as social science says less about their pathologies than it does about ours.
In other words, whose the one with the sick mind here ?
