Beyonce’s new brand of pedophilia chic
If you thought the soft-porn image of Disney teen queen Miley Cyrus—wearing nothing but ruby-stained lips and a bedsheet—in Vanity Fair magazine was disturbing, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Pop diva Beyoncé Knowles, 27, and her fashion designer mother have launched a girls clothing line that makes Miley’s bare-backed glam session look like a Shirley Temple photo shoot.
The Knowles’ family business, “House of Dereon,” recently published advertisements for its “Dereon Girls Collection” with young models who look no older than my second-grade daughter. They are seductively posed and tarted up, JonBenet Ramsey-style, with bright lipstick, blush and face powder. Draped in bling, several of the girls sport leather jackets and studded accessories.
One of the children wears sparkly, killer high heels (more pint-size Pussycat Doll than Dorothy from “The Wizard of the Oz”) and another slouches, gangsta gal-style, with a neon pink boa, leopard-skin fedora and stilettos. An even younger model is a toddler-aged Beyoncé Mini-Me with huge hair, skinny jeans, spike-heeled leather boots and attitude to match:
Abercrombie & Fitch prompted an outrage a few years ago with its line of thongs for elementary school girls and pedophilia chic catalogues. And, of course, Calvin Klein started it all with 15-year-old Brooke Shields purring that “Nothing comes between me and my Calvins.” But the House of Dereon photo spread sinks even lower. It’s sick and it’s wrong, and it’s not social conservatives who first said so. Fashion and celebrity websites have been buzzing with outrage over the past week:
“Pimp my kid,” decried one blogger. “Dereon Girls ad too adult,” concluded another. Gossip king Perez Hilton polled readers on whether the ad was appropriate. The overwhelming consensus: Hell, no.
The creepiness factor is heightened by the fact that women were responsible for marketing this child exploitation. I’d ask: “Where was Beyoncé’s mother to tell her daughter to wipe all the gunk off the Dereon models’ faces?” But Beyoncé’s mother—who has helped manage the “Bootylicious” singer’s career from childhood—is her eager and willing partner in crime.
As for the mothers of this new crop of Little Girls Gone Wild models, they were undoubtedly thrilled to see their daughters painted up and posing like Victoria’s Secret angels-in-training. If we’ve learned anything from Lindsay Lohan and her hard-partying mother, it’s that the Lolita-posing apple doesn’t fall far from the bosom-flaunting tree.
So, what’s next? Nine-year-olds performing stripper routines? Oh, wait. It’s been done already. I saw that very nightmare last fall on the cable TV reality show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”—featuring the grade-school-age daughters of Olympic star Bruce Jenner strapping on stilettos and twirling around a stripper pole in their parents’ bedroom as friends and family cheered them on. Future House of Dereon clients, no doubt.
Beyoncé’s clothes, you should know, are available at Macy’s department stores and other “fine” establishments willing to carry titillating tot wear. Shame on them all. Shame them all. It’s time to redouble our efforts to fight back against the Forever 21 culture that poisons Hollywood, Halloween, prom season and every season in between. In our indecent world, 7 has become the new 21.
Shouldn’t a child’s innocence last longer than a porn star’s .25-ounce pot of lip gloss?
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BrianNY, we’re good. I could tell the inferences drawn by some were probably mistaken, and your comments had most-likely been misunderstood.
Oh God, let’s get Kimora’s opinion on this.
Distasteful, yes. But not nearly as bad as Children’s Beauty Pageants!
Post #1 really said all that need to be said.
Some kids do develop their own sense of style. My 16-year-old daughter wore an authentic vintage prarie/maxi shirt and crocheted blouse to school last week, my hand-me-downs that my mom kept from that era. She also wore a 50s sweater that my mom bought with money from her first job when she was 18.
And the new styles for juniors are quite modest - bermuda shorts to the knee, long tunic shirts, and short-sleeve hoodies. Very cute.
Boycott Bratz!
CFreiberg ,
My Mother in law said something that really hit home on Friday. She said that everytime her daughter said she was the meanest Mom, she would turn around and say that was the nicest thing she could ever say to her because that meant she was doing her job.
So true, so true.
With all due respect, I think it’s very silly and unnecessary to bring race into this topic. Tila Tequila??? Not just her.
I don’t know if you have MTV or BET(asian women frequent those videos too), but spend a lazy Saturday watching some of the content, and this statement will prove to be correct:
Asian women can hooch it up as well as anyone else.
They are no better or worse than any other girls/women on this issue. I just don’t think race is relevant here.IMHO
Macy’s CEO Terry J. Lundgren
Vice Chairman of Federated Ronald W. Tysoe
hmmmm….what do they have in common?
What they have in common is that they are successful businessmen and you are not.
They pay a shitload more taxes than Other Side too.
Thank you, RR!
The contents of this thread call to mind the process I’ve watched culture pass through while melting like-marshmallow-in-a-campfire to attain our present state of affairs. If I were of paranoid bent, I’d be inclined to believe our culture & civilization were being dismantled - purposefully & in such a fashion as to allay fears until the rot has spread too far to cure.
The established pattern when the rot “breaks the surface” is: a hue & cry, nashing of teeth, acceptance by the majority.
This sexualization of children has been building for at least 10yrs, and I think that this indignation is the festering wound “breaking the surface”. The hullabaloo will die down, and nxt time the framework will move more left.
When I argue w/Liberal-Progressives, they always retort: “what you want to go back to an Ozzie & Harriet world? It never existed!” Well, what’s wrong with an Ozzie&Harriet world? Its a better place than the limp, colorless, bland & tasteless (in all senses of the word) world LibProgs weakly lust after. If they can “Imagine(c)”[by lennon], & put that forward, whats wrong with the 1950s?
Unlike most of the people I meet, I lived most of my life in the 20th Century. I have clear, adult memories of the 30s - 50s. They had a lot to recommend them. We were growing out of racism — albeit too slowly. Women were protected & cherished. And, while they weren’t troubled with most of the “rougher” tasks - tasks truely beyond a woman’s strength - niether did they need to do the metaphorical “screaming & jumping up & down” in order to have her opinion in matters seriously considered. And, if a woman was attacked, or some ill fortune - every man in earshot took it as an honor to spring to help.
Well, I’m going “off into the woods” when considering this thread. Also, my PDA’s editing buffer is full.
- musculus
Dressing children up like this is wrong. The pop culture pimps are out for another dollar and are willing to sacrifice our children to get it. How does old saying go? The love of money is the root of all evil… Shame on Beyoncé Knowles and her “fashion designer” mother.
#203 ditto! The way those little girls are done up is sickening.Seeing those pictures of JonBenet parading around with more make up on than Tammy Faye and looking like a Vegas show girl made my stomach turn.The only reason I brought up the Asian girl was because while the other two girls looked more tartish she seemed to look more gang bangish.They all look awful regardless of what race they are little girls shouldn’t look like that.I guess we just continue in the way of Rome!
Now all they need are Pimp clothes for the young boys and it will be complete.
Don’t forget the lingerie for 6-10 year-olds put out by Mary Kate and Ashley. Bra and thong panty sets with leopard print and fluffy black around the edges.
That was in Wal-Mart. Might still be. DIS-GUSTING.
Arrh:
should read
Sorry guess I need new specs, too… ;~)
- martin.musculus
SAD, SAD, SAD! This is more of the stuff that makes me think that we have reached the day’s of “doing wrong is doing right and doing right is doing wrong”! Then again maybe I am just getting old (40). Truth is that Iam SAD and we are in the days of wrong is right and right is wrong. I wonder what it is going to be like for my grandchildren???
“pedophilia chic”……please. I quit listening to virtucrats a long time ago. Sometime right after I was told Marilyn Mason was the spawn of Satan and a sign of the coming apocalypse. If I’m in need of any moral scolding I will call up Mr. Lammers, my sixth grade teacher. Until then I will continue to pursue happiness as I see fit and dress myself and my children as I like. Is this a great country or what!
On May 14th, 2008 at 6:06 pm, M0mm1e0f2G1rls said:
CFreiberg ,
My Mother in law said something that really hit home on Friday. She said that everytime her daughter said she was the meanest Mom, she would turn around and say that was the nicest thing she could ever say to her because that meant she was doing her job.
So true, so true.
Funny thing, my 7 year old says now mean I am. I tell her that it is good because then I am doing my job! Trust me, she got quiet after that! LOL
Love ya Michelle, but sometimes you just try too hard to be outraged. What is shown here is virtually burka-level skin exposure. You never dressed up in high heels as a child?. There are plenty of serious cases of parental stupidity in dressing children like tramps, but this is not one. Pick your battles more carefully or you marginalize yourself, and your fans, of which I am one.
Very interesting perspective. I very much enjoyed reading the thoughts of a much older, much wiser, man. I thank you for your willingness to post here.
At the same time, I’m struck (stricken?) by the enormity of the chasm between those who say “calm down, you bunch of prudes!” and those who say “our girls deserve to be girls, and don’t deserve to be dressed like women.” I can tell you which side of that chasm I find myself, but it’s probably quite obvious by now.
The Knowles’ family business, “House of Dereon,”
Called:“Dereon Girls Collection”
Should be called “Pedeophalea Promotion” line.
What’s really sad is some parents will be stupid enough to actually buy this crap for their kids.
Jon Benet Ramsey, anyone?
And can you explain to me why so many men say “It’s her fault because of how she dresses.”
Grumbles, you are quite articulate for a 6th grader. Say “hey” to Mr.Lammers for me in class tomorrow.
Does he supply you with condoms??
I got my moral compass from Mom AND Dad.
If I strayed from what I was taught, I felt guilty. If I made mistakes, I paid the price and suffered the consequences….AT HOME.
I’m sure Mr.Lammers is nice man. Shouldn’t your standards, mores and morals be set by your Parents??
Just a thought.
Hey Bagho20 and others, there will always be competition between your ego (through your child) and others of your ilk. Your only interest is being trendy. When is the last time you bought your child a book?
Luigi, take a peek at post #89.
grumbles #215:
It is precisely that libertine attitude that has brought this nation to the moral corruption we see all around us.
You sneer at “virtue” only because you have bought into the moral relativism that is destroying western civilization.
Christianity, Confucianism, even the ancient Greeks and Romans, understood that a great and good society depends on the civic virtue of its people. Our founding fathers were also great believers of and strove for improvement of their personal virtues.
Only a small minded person sneers at virtue.
Well it was just a matter of time before the illegal alien LaRatza children’s dress trend went main stream.
What’s interesting is the number of people defending the clothes on square inches of skin exposed, regardless of connotations/intent of the style. I can’t figure out if you’re utterly clueless about women’s clothing and how human cultures communicate through dress, or you’re just sleazy jerks.
I was at the mall tonight after work. I saw a small girl–four, five–in a white sleeveless sundress with a smocked front, ties on the shoulders, and a long ruffly skirt, with little white sandals. A fairly timeless design that I remember wearing at that age.
She was “showing skin”–more than the girl in the cropped black leather jacket–but it was age and weather appropriate and completely devoid of innuendo. White is a color long associated with children’s clothing; the neckline was straight-across and not cut to emphasize her non-existant chest; and anyone who paid any attention to American culture in the last 50 years recognizes “ruffly smocked sundress with shoulder ties” as a garment mainly worn by young girls. Adult women don’t usually wear this particular garment because a) they look silly and b) they don’t want to project sexual immaturity (well…most of ‘em don’t).
Now, the black leather jacket. In the last 50 years, black leather symbolizes the rebel, the biker, the fast girl, the fetish, and since Pretty Woman, the hooker. It’s cropped to emphasize the (undeveloped on child modeling it) hips, which are a cue to sexual maturity. The half-zipped front is an allusion to cleavage and a cue to sexual availability. Her arms are covered, but so what? The garment screams “sexual interest and availability.”
The high heels on the black jacket girl–with socks, they cover more skin than little white sandals, true. But the purpose of high heels is to tilt the pelvis so the hips swivel–again, a cue to men to sexual availability (think about all the jokes about lesbians and “comfortable shoes”).
I’m not entirely sure when “skin” and “sex” became conflated. Probably related to the decline of Hollywood–Barbara Stanwyck could exude more sexuality wearing office clothes than anyone in films today can when they’re completely nude and having actual coitus on the screen.
#206 mistress said:
I apologize if you think my aforementioned observation was unnecessary, but silly?
Silly to be appalled and disheartened by Beyonce dressing up a little Asian American girl like a whore from some horrible Pam Greer “blacksploitation” movie via the 1970s?
Silly to be appalled and disheartened by Beyonce dressing up a little Asian American girl like some prostitute in a Snoop Dogg video, just before she gets b-slapped and asked, Where’s my money, ho?”
Silly to wonder where a black entrepreneur gets off recruiting a little Asian American girl; dressing her up in some of the worst stereotypes of “black culture” in the attempts to peddle her wares amongst the Asian American community which, until now, has proudly elevated more of their women into the highest echelons of academia, the arts and professional occupations than most American cultural groups?
I concede that some Asian American girls can grow up to be foul mouthed comedians (Margaret Cho) or low class designers like Kimora Lee (half Asian) or even porn actresses. But, IMHO, for me or you (I believe Tila Tequila was your example?)to insinuate that any of these exceptions represent Asian American culture, or are celebrated by even more than a small minority of the Asian American community, would be (in your words?)”silly.”
Lastly, imagine if an Asian American designer like Vera Wang recruited young black girls to dress up like little Asian street hookers for an ad campaign. Wouldn’t right minded African Americans with an ounce of pride be justified in asking, “where the hell does an Asian designer get off dressing up a little black girl like a damn fool?”
I think this shoe fits both feet.
I hate to say it because I do think what I’m thinking is a little racist. But here it goes. This type is ‘pedo-wear’ is really a niche market for people of ethnicity in urban areas. The reason why I’m thinking this is because I know a certain teacher who volunteered to teach in a “disadvantaged” urban area. This teacher experienced a real turn off when interacting with the parents of students when she found that the parents treated their children like golden objects to be pompously displayed (Just like how P-Diddy shows bling). The parents’ attitudes about their kids was so bad in fact, she quit.
The only thing missing is a pole.
Meant to add… I’m always disturbed when little girls are dressed in “sexy” clothing. This really hit me at my daughter’s elementary school talent show several years ago. At the time, we lived in the same school district as Danielle Van Dam, and we were all shaken by her murder at the hands of pedophile David Westerfield. Yet here we were, watching scantily clad elementary school girls dancing in sexually alluring ways. It seemed so wrong.
#229 said:
Welcome to the material world.
1. Hip-hop culture isn’t about who you are, it’s about what’chu got.
2. For over a generation now, we’ve been taught less math and science and more about how to, “work it girl,” and “express yo-self,” and how to walk down a runway and look “fierce.”
3. The urban music industry has overwhelmingly documented what they think women are worth, and what they should be used for.
4. “Pimp and ho” culture (reverse blacksploitation) has permeated the urban lexicon, urban entertainment, the urban energy drink market, and now, urban prepubescent couture.
Another contributer here lamented that the urban community may not be salvageable at this point. With urban, single parent household rates spiraling from 30% to 75% in the past 40 years, it’s tough to disagree.
Others here have objected to my horror that Beyonce is now trying to inject this disastrously stunted culture into the adolescent, Asian American demographic through her recent advertising; a community which has distinguished itself honorably by achieving the exact opposite of what urban culture has resulted over past years.
Oh well. I suppose one man’s culture is just another man’s one-way ticket to nowhere.
What I don’t understand, and perhaps you have your reasons, is why your eyes go straight to the Asian girl. Why are you putting Asian girls or women on this imaginary throne. This issue thread is about the exploitation of all young children by Beyonce’s line. It doesn’t matter the race of the child. I don’t think Tila Tequila represents Asian women any more than Lindsay Lohan represents White women, or Lil Kim represents all Black women ect….
For some reason, you put your focus on the Asian girl as opposed to the other exploited, victimized children on this page. Call me crazy, but I don’t think Asian people are any better than anyone else in this country. They aren’t a monolithic group, and you can find Asians frequenting the hood, hoochied up, or as well dressed executives brokering deals at power lunches. The same goes for Blacks, Whites,or Hispanics. In this country, assuming we are talking about assimilated Americans, Asian women are no different than any other race, and your glorifying of them is misplaced on this serious thread in my opinion.
Lastly, if Vera Wang dressed a little Black girl as an Asian street hooker, my feelings would be the same if she dressed a little white girl as one, or an Asian girl. I’m concerned about the exploitation of all children, not making some commentary about the so-called virtues of some race, as if that race is seperate and superior to others, thereby implying that that race’s children are seperate and superior to others. I guess we disagree on this point.
I’ll tell you why they use the Asian girl. Asians typically make more money than whites and blacks. It has nothing to do with race it has to do with the Asian ’subset” that exists in Beyonce’s ilk that she’s trying to pander to. Just a thought.
#233 mistress said:
Because the Asian girl’s example was the most culturally asymmetrical. To me, it was like seeing a fish riding a bicycle.
Because in my years of social observation, they are the one group, represented in Beyonce’s ad campaign, which has most successfully eschewed low standards and low culture for loftier goals in life - and their overwhelming per capita representation in achieving these goals is established. (e.g. higher education, the arts, many professional occupations.)
Agreed.
Because, sadly, I have come to except the fact that much larger proportions of blacks and whites (and their children)have embraced the deviant aspects of urban culture (exploitation, sexploitation, blacksploitation, reverse blacksploitation, the soft bigotry of low expectations, etc.)than the Asian American community has.
Agreed.
I agree with your general sentiment, but I repeat that their numbers are far more representative (per capita) in those loftier aspects mentioned earlier (higher education, the arts, professional occupations) and less representative in the culture that Beyonce is pushing them. (To put it bluntly, there are more Asian American (per capita) doctors and Cal Tech graduates than there are Asian American contestants on Soul Train, or American Idol or working at Burger King or Abercrombie and Fitch.) IMHO, a large reason for this is their stronger adherence to discipline, hard work, study, strong family networks, etc. than that of an equal representation of American blacks and whites.
True, but to a lesser extent as evidenced by smaller per capita representation in the disciplines noted earlier.
Again, regarding representation in the higher disciplines, not glorification, I disagree and ask you, who do you think (per capita) represent more MDs in this country: blacks, whites or Asian Americans? Who do you think (per capita) represent more classically trained musicians in this country: blacks, whites or Asian Americans? Who do you think (per capita)achieve the highest analytical test scores in this country: blacks, whites or Asian Americans?
Agreed, but as a result of far lesser and past incidents, (Korean fruit stands, white utilization of the “n” word or “nappy-headed ho” terms) I don’t feel it unfair to believe that black, cultural outrage would be a lot louder against Vera Wang than the outrage Beyonce is currently receiving for this ad.
Agreed.
I feel that this comment unfairly characterizes my thoughts on this subject.
Let me guess, slow
newsoutrage day? This is a little silly.Yes, these clothes are age-inappropriate (and if I may, ugly as sin), but “pedophilia chic?” “Seductively posed?” Really? Old Navy and Gap Kids both have far more revealing children’s swimwear on their main pages right this very minute! Let the boycott begin!
Well with any luck, Obama will refuse to eat a cheeseburger in the next couple days, so you can get back to manufacturing some genuine outrage.