{"id":40205,"date":"2013-09-23T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_editorial_ending_the_hypersexualization_of_girls\/"},"modified":"2013-09-23T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:31:03","slug":"csm_editorial_ending_the_hypersexualization_of_girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40205","title":{"rendered":"(CSM Editorial) Ending the hypersexualization of girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France has now joined a global struggle against the sexualization of women, especially girls, in public. On Wednesday [last week], the French upper house of Parliament voted to end beauty pageants for girls younger than 16.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which must still be approved by the lower house, was introduced to fend off a growing popularity of such pageants but also in response to public outrage over a French Vogue photo spread showing child models in tight dresses, lipstick, and high heels. Many in France were also upset that the company Jours Apr\u00c3\u00a8s Lunes came out with a line of \u201cloungerie\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201c a mix of loungewear and lingerie \u201d\u201c for girls as young as 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us not allow our girls to think from a young age that their worth is judged only by their appearance,\u201d\u009d said Sen. Chantal Jouanno, a champion of the pageant ban.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/the-monitors-view\/2013\/0919\/Ending-the-hypersexualization-of-girls\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has now joined a global struggle against the sexualization of women, especially girls, in public. On Wednesday [last week], the French upper house of Parliament voted to end beauty pageants for girls younger than 16. The bill, which must<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40205\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,175,101,582,589,149,168,200,468,89,110,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-france","category-media","category-teens-youth","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}