Style/Substance

sothenshe:

Last week, I had a long conversation with a close friend about how I believe every one of us is - subconsciously - into some form of pedophilia. She was shocked, appalled and immediately disagreed, as I’m sure you’re doing right now reading this, but let’s consider the following:

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Its hard to know if ‘every one of us’ refers to literally every one of us, or just men. 

The points made only highlight the lengths women will go to to appear young (read fertile, attractive, hence sexy). I don’t completely disagree, it’s a disturbed culture that produces thongs for 6 year old girls and fully grown women with zero pubic hair.

But is this really indicative of pedophilia?

Personally I think it’s more a part of the societal obsession with youth and womens desire to appear non-threatening. To be a girl rather than a woman is to be seen to require protection from a man, a hypermasculine ‘daddy’, as opposed to requiring an economic and intellectual equal. Gender roles have become increasingly complex and blurred and for some this ‘girling’ enables a return to a simple binary of gender.

Or maybe you guys are just total perves, who knows!