Maybe Disney should take a long hard look at who’s to blame for hyper-sexualizing young women.
I mean really, it’s Myley Cyrus in a bedsheet Disney’s worried about? I think a child reclining in a push-up bra is worse…
Maybe Disney should take a long hard look at who’s to blame for hyper-sexualizing young women.
I mean really, it’s Myley Cyrus in a bedsheet Disney’s worried about? I think a child reclining in a push-up bra is worse…
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six comments
I saw that this morning too and was initially horrified but then I thought about it for a bit and felt slightly less creeped out. That Slate article points out that the age of consent in China is 14, and she's not in a sexual pose. She's just hanging out in her Disney underwear holding up Mickey puppets.
It's a little weird because, yes, she is wearing nothing but underwear, but I don't think it's trying to be provocative, anymore than those naked kids in diaper ads.
I mean, it's a little weird, and I'm at least a little uncomfortable with it, but I think it's maybe not as creepy as it initially seems.
Posted by Cate
May 2, 2008, 1:33 PM
It's the hypocricy that gets me. The way Disney has decided to distance itself from Cyrus because of the VF spread but then they a responsible for marketing push-up bras to pre-teens. (Keeping in mind the purpose of a push-up bra, no?)
Posted by Stacey May
May 2, 2008, 2:02 PM
I saw this on Slate yesterday too. Honestly, I don't think this picture compares to the Miley Cyrus pics at all. While the Miley pics are decidely sexual, this just looks like a page from the children's underwear section of the Sears catalogue. The bra and panties the model is wearing are entirely age appropriate and not racy at all. The situation and pose don't seem sexual, and the model seems happy and healthy.
Posted by H
May 2, 2008, 3:59 PM
I don't think that the main concern is her pose, really. Or even that she's wearing a bra, although that is a bit much on a billboard. If you think that's the main problem, you may be missing the point. The point is that she is wearing a push-up bra. The main purpose of that piece of clothing is to enhance the breasts, not just support them. Therefore there IS something wrong with this billboard.
Consider this pwn'd.
Posted by Brianne
May 2, 2008, 4:27 PM
Ummm, that bra is not age appropriate. It's a push-up bra. On what, a 10 or 12 year old? Granted, I was personally already pretty developed at that age, but I wasn't going to wear a friggin push up bra.
Posted by Lindsay
May 2, 2008, 5:37 PM
Yeah, Disney has really departed from the 'keep it clean, don't let kids be sex symbols' if it is selling push up bras to kiddies and advertising them in the streets. Little girls shouldn't feel like they have to have big breasts, and the mostly naked bodies of the under 18 set shouldn't be on Disney billboards, no matter what the age of consent is in the country in which they are advertising.
Ugh.
Posted by habladora
May 4, 2008, 11:04 PM
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