no they don’t they show the effects of the normalization of pedophilia in our society
and the way that capitalism has forced women to view their appearance as a commodity from puberty
Poor kid. I don’t know who’s advising her but they’re bad at their job.
Anyway, here’s what teen actresses looked like in the mid-90s for more on this so-called ‘cultural shift’:
You know what though? Let’s not shame Millie for it. Pick a random 13 years old girl today and she’ll look the same. My cousin showed up in london last month and between makeup, hair, ourfit and nails she looked at least 20 and I literally forgot at some point and accidentally offered her wine until I remembered she still likes hello kitty. All of her friends look the same too.
It’s not just actresses. There was a cultural shift. And God it must be stressful to be a preteen in the era of IG and snapchat and fb.
1994so y’all are gonna pretend that the 90s/ 200s were a GREAT place to be a teenage girl and these atrocities didn’t happen:
Britney Spears on the cover of Rolling Stone, 1999, age 16 (literally all of Britney Spears’s early career)
Dominique Swain, promotional image for Lolita, age 15, 1997
Natalie Portman, age 12, in Leon: The Professional, 1994
This shit isn’t new. Stop acting like it’s new and the past is somehow less shitty than things are now.
Here’s the thing though, i can remember folks getting absolutely fucking OUTRAGED when that cover of Britney came out. like, folks had been frothing about what Hit Me Baby One More Time was telling their daughters, and then that rolling stone cover hit and it was just pandemonium. I don’t think I’ve heard that sort of cultural “BUT SHE’S 13” response about ANYTHING lately, unless it’s on here or on a specifically feminist site saying “hey, um, maybe don’t treat MBB as as sex object?” So while it wasn’t GREAT back then in the 90’s/early 2000s, it has definitely gotten WORSE, as far as people just accepting it.