The Guardian ran a piece by Jackie Ashley on the sexualization of young girls. It makes a powerful argument for precisely why the absence of strong feminist voices in British (Western?) culture needs to be remedied.
Without a feminist perspective you have no hope of an honest discussion about the sexualisation of young girls. They are being groomed – not by pervy old men hanging over computer keyboards, but by today’s ideology-free, value-free consumer culture, which tells them they’re sexually hot or they’re nothing.
Somewhere along the line, the old feminist hope that women, like men, would be valued for their skills, brains, hard work, entrepreneurial chutzpah, experience and humour – well, it just got dropped.
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