Padded bikini for girls withdrawn

[dipsydoodle]

Clothing chain Primark has withdrawn the sale of its range of padded bikini tops for girls as young as seven following criticism.

The company apologised to customers for "causing offence" and said it would donate profits from the product to a children's charity.

The Children's Society criticised Primark for "premature sexualisation and unprincipled advertising".

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And child protection consultant Shy Keenan, of The Phoenix Chief Advocates which helps victims of paedophiles, said: "It never fails to amaze me just how many High Street household names are now prepared to exploit the disgusting 'paedophile pound'."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8619329.stm:wtf:

Padded tops for 7 year olds :wtf:

[ikri]

1. Paedophile Pound?

WTF? Seriously, what the fucking hell is the paedophile pound?

That must be the most profoundly stupid phrase I have heard uttered this week, and that includes the UKIP election manifesto.

Perhaps Shy Keenan can get together with Jim Gamble and demand a panic button in every children's clothing department, or at the very least a hotline to a shrill, reactionary reporter.

[non sociopath skin]

2. Surely it's the misguided parents who pay the pounds?

And there must be a demand or Primark wouldn't be meeting it,eh?

The Skin

[ikri]

3. Makes you wonder if kids want to look more grown up

Nah.

Much easier to make a huge fuss over fuck all.

[Nihil]

4. Maybe it says something about society in general ...

... where 6/7 year old girls think that they need to have
visible tits to be valued? More so considering that they
must have had at least one parent supporting (or encouraging)
that perception.

I don't deny that it will be blown up by the tabloids
but really, how much defence should such a crap business
choice receive? Do *you* think that padded bikinis for
junior or even infant school children is somehow good?

I would seriously question the judgement (if nothing else)
of whichever "guardian" bought said item for a kid ...

:puke:

[non sociopath skin]

5. At the expense of repeating myself, I doubt whether it's the kids who want the padding.

It's those parents who want their kids to look "adult".

"Why" would take a team of psychologists and social scientists quite some time to fully fathom, I suspect.

The Skin

[miscsoc]

6. From what I remember of being a kid

I can imagine kids actually wanting to wear this stuff. Certainly adults are responsible, but I'd blame advertisers and the pop culture industry more than parents. I mean the female ideal promoted by the media now, even more than say fifteen years ago when I was that age, is one of pneumatic sexuality. Can't fail to have an effect on the desires and self-images of pre-pubescent girls

[miscsoc]

7. I was obsessed by trainers when I was 10 or so

having the right branded trainers, the right Nike sportswear, to emulate footballers I was impressed with on tv. I can imagine some raunchy popstar having a similar role in the psychology of present day girls as, like, Ronaldo did for me in 1998 or whatever.