"So Sexy So Soon" - Jean Kilbourne & Diane Levin on "Today"

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Diane Levin appears in "Consuming Kids," and Kilbourne in "Killing Us Softly 3."

Both available on DVD from The Media Education Foundation.

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[stylos29]

To "blue64," claiming that this is a generational thing or that people like Kilbourne are pushing Judeo-Christian values is incredibly off-track. Ms. Kilbourne is NOT a conservative Christian, and there is a huge difference between parents lamenting Elvis Presley and Ludacris's "Move Bitch Get Out The Way!" The movement toward sexualized and misogynist media has exploded in the last couple decades, and unless you have been living in a cave, how you claim that it is all relative. What naivete!

[thestarduster]

It's a no-brainer that females are being pressures to become more sexualized far ealier. 10 years ago, most pop music videos were ultra-conservative compared to what we have today. Now, we have orgies, bare bums and dry humping on a huge majority of pop videos. Why? To sell an idea that women must be sexual objects so that the diet industry, fashion industry and beauty industry can make their money off unhappy females. Quite sickening.

[bestofyoutoday]

Visit the Best of You Today to view Diane Levin's interview with us

[pyrogyra72]

@MySophisticated Agreed.

[happyfacercs]

I don't see how things like heels, nail polish and makeup relate to sex. A lot of kids want to wear these things because they see them as being beautiful. It's the parent's choice whether they want to let their children use these or not but just stop claiming it to be over sexualization.

[MySophisticated]

& i think parents should control their kids, by watching or looking witch interest their kida have and talk to them about it

[MySophisticated]

Its not the media who should change It should be the Parents who should take care that their daughter should´t go in the wrong diretions (like becoming to sexy or simple becoming to adultlish).

[IDaCashman]

This will go away. I was reading Watchmen (the graphic novel version, wonderful by the way), and it stated towards the end that in times of war the media will become overtly violent, sexual and other things that go against common moral values. It's very true as well. Look at World War II Propoganda, the violence in that, or media from the Vietnam era, that was very sexual.

I'm not sure why this is, but once we start acting like responsible human beings in Western society, it will lessen.

[Admercial]

Funny how it's always "Kids doing this," "Teens doing that," "This generation..." What about the generation before this one? Older generations are the ones who taught by example. Older generations are the ones who don't educate their kids about this. Why not go after the parents with the same vigor used to bash the media?