Comments on: Let My Kid be a Kid, Dammit! http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/ Where it's always amateur night... Mon, 20 May 2013 11:47:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: carrie http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/#comment-159676 carrie Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:26:10 +0000 http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/#comment-159676 Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Our local market had an FHM mag right above the Nickelodeon mags and I nearly lost it as one of my boys was standing there, looking for his Spongebob and got sight of the bare ass of the model on the cover. Hello! How hard is it to put it up high, where kids can't reach it?????? You've given me inspiration to do something about it if I see it again. I'm all for non-censorship, but I'm also a big fan of common sense and responsible advertising. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Our local market had an FHM mag right above the Nickelodeon mags and I nearly lost it as one of my boys was standing there, looking for his Spongebob and got sight of the bare ass of the model on the cover. Hello! How hard is it to put it up high, where kids can’t reach it??????

You’ve given me inspiration to do something about it if I see it again. I’m all for non-censorship, but I’m also a big fan of common sense and responsible advertising.

]]> By: IzzyMom » Blog Archive » Damn that Dirty Dancing! http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/#comment-159675 IzzyMom » Blog Archive » Damn that Dirty Dancing! Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:08:27 +0000 http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/#comment-159675 [...] So where was I? Oh yes…the kids are not to blame. I mean they have their noses rubbed in sexual imagery from childhood on and then we go and sexualize our little girls and then we give them numerous forms of media that are saturated with sexual content and imagery of the most base variety, as well as all manner of negative gender stereotyping and then when they freak dance, we call foul? What the hell did we EXPECT them to turn out like? Nuns and monks? They’re simply products of their environment and you can’t really fault them for that. [...] [...] So where was I? Oh yes…the kids are not to blame. I mean they have their noses rubbed in sexual imagery from childhood on and then we go and sexualize our little girls and then we give them numerous forms of media that are saturated with sexual content and imagery of the most base variety, as well as all manner of negative gender stereotyping and then when they freak dance, we call foul? What the hell did we EXPECT them to turn out like? Nuns and monks? They’re simply products of their environment and you can’t really fault them for that. [...]

]]> By: Hippie Mama http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/#comment-159674 Hippie Mama Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:59:30 +0000 http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/#comment-159674 You are totally awesome. You are my hero! You are absolutely right. And I don't think removing those kinds of publications from a child's eye view is censorship. Censorship would be, say, if the government was like, no more boobie mags! Asking the management to move them is just asking them to exercise responsible business practices, and to cater to their customers. You are totally awesome. You are my hero! You are absolutely right. And I don’t think removing those kinds of publications from a child’s eye view is censorship. Censorship would be, say, if the government was like, no more boobie mags! Asking the management to move them is just asking them to exercise responsible business practices, and to cater to their customers.

]]> By: Arabella http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/#comment-159673 Arabella Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:06:39 +0000 http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/#comment-159673 BTW, I agree wholeheartedly with your recently-added point about social responsibility. Well said. BTW, I agree wholeheartedly with your recently-added point about social responsibility. Well said.

]]> By: Arabella http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/#comment-159672 Arabella Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:48:04 +0000 http://izzymom.com/2006/06/29/let-my-kids-be-kids-dammit/#comment-159672 I totally sympathize with where you're coming from; with all due respect, though, I would take a different approach. I've posted about it on my blog today (7/17). That said, I do not have children myself and do not really know what it's like to confront the Maxim tits at the checkout counter (or the sugar-laden treats, either). You sound like a very good mom to me. I totally sympathize with where you’re coming from; with all due respect, though, I would take a different approach. I’ve posted about it on my blog today (7/17). That said, I do not have children myself and do not really know what it’s like to confront the Maxim tits at the checkout counter (or the sugar-laden treats, either). You sound like a very good mom to me.

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