Friday, 21 February 2014
Week six: Children & sexualisation
Children see sexualisation everywhere and they become adult before the moment! Now they can go to everywhere with their mobile phone, computer and television. A lot of children have a television in their bedroom so the parents don’t watch their children! That isn’t good for their education. They must live their child's life and with sexualisation everywhere that isn’t possible.
On television if the parents don’t watch their children, they can watch on the television: movies for adults, TV series with sex-drugs, movies with sex and violence, . . . Generally, in these movies and TV series, the woman doesn’t have a good play, she is subdued, slave, make every that the man want, happy, beautiful, . . . “An integrated approach is necessary to ensuring not only that violence against women becomes universally regarded as an unacceptable and criminal violation of women’s human rights, but also that victims of sexual, physical and psychological violence receive the attention and support that they need to be able to escape and resolve their situation.”59www.un-instraw.org/en/images/stories/Beijing/violenceagainstwomen.pdf
On advertising (like the same of magazines) every hour there are some advertising not for the children and with a bag image, these are some examples:
- A couple of ladybird makes love in a car (advertising for a car).
- A woman is naked for Yoghurt.
- A woman is naked for Deodorant.
- A woman is naked for Soap.
- A couple undresses because they want make love (advertising for product of Durex).
- A man use Axe (deodorant) and a lot of woman arrived near him and want to undresses him.
- . . .
So the children see all the time a lot of things not for them and they grow too fast for their age!
(I speak with a mother and she says me: “I don’t understand why the advertising’s television shows a woman naked for yogurt. There is not sense.”)
“Advertising doesn’t just sell products; it sells aspirations and identities. The proliferation and accessibility of advertising images and messages make it increasingly difficult to target them at the appropriate audience. With the advent of mobile internet, it is almost impossible to guarantee that messages are only being seen by the age group for which they are intended.”(Papadopoulos, L. (2010) Sexualisation of Young People Review Home Office (Executive Summary – link on LN) http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100418065544/http://homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/Sexualisation-young-people2835.pdf?view=Binary)
Internet it’s the worst thing who exist for the children. Why?
Because, now, a lot of children have Facebook on their computer so children accept many people who don’t know and sometimes these people ask some bad things at these children: undresses you in front of your webcam, send me some pictures of you naked, give me a appointment to see you, look my sex on your computer, … and more they can see some advertising for adults in their children’s site (woman naked with sex of a man, woman show her booths, . . .). They can watch some video with pornography on their computer (special site, YouTube, movie in streaming, . . .). On the net, they can play with the adults ‘games. “There is no ‘watershed’ on the internet, and many adverts are sent indiscriminately to mobile phones and e-mail addresses. A child with a mobile phone literally has access to pornography in their pocket.”
“Developments in technology play a significant role, and while the internet provides amazing learning opportunities, it also gives children easy access to age inappropriate materials, which they can access alone, without the input and mitigating influence of an adult who could, perhaps, help them to understand and contextualise what they are seeing.” (Papadopoulos, L. (2010) Sexualisation of Young People Review Home Office (Executive Summary – link on LN) http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100418065544/http://homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/Sexualisation-young-people2835.pdf?view=Binary)
Finally, the children, now, don’t have the clothes for their ages but to become adult because the clothes are sexy and short. The young girls get dressed with bra, strings and high-heeled shoe. They make up them. They don’t like to princess but they like to sexy woman and this is not good for they education because she became woman too early (they make love, are pregnant too young).
In conclusion, sexualisation unfortunately is everywhere on television, advertising, clothes, mobile phone, internet, games, . . . the parents must watch their children and make careful at them. In the school the teacher must speak about risks of Facebook, internet, … explain why are not good for them.
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The issue that you bring up about children accessing things which are not age appropriate online has recently been on the news! Both parents and teachers were showing concern as well as the children themselves. Children were expressing that they are aware that what they are accidently coming across online is not suitable for them to see, however they don't know how to prevent it as they appear in the form of advertising pop-ups, or on their news-feed on facebook. Parents and teachers were equally concerned because they know that despite there being child safety settings on the computer, these advertisements or inappropriate sites were still able to be accessed (whether accidently or intently), and so they are unsure what to do next.
ReplyDeleteLike you stated in your blog post, I believe schools and parents need to educate children further on how to use the internet, and what to ignore, and the sites to avoid if they do not want to view anything that they may feel uncomfortable with.
In reference to what you said about the inappropriate advertisements on the television too, I agree there are many adverts that perhaps convey different messages, despite the fact that they are simply advertising a yoghurt, however is there anything more that can be done other than preventing children to watch television, or educating them about them at school?
As children are being exposed to such adverts at such a young age, I believe it is unlikely that they will find these adverts unusual, and they will just become a normal feature of watching television.
You raise a very good issue! In regards to television and advertisements I pose the question to you 'why are those women naked?'. Surely, women do not need to be over sexualised and pose naked for products, especially yogurt adverts. We must ask ourselves, what image is this giving children? Personally, I have witnessed an incident with Facebook in a year 2 class on a placement. The teacher and I were discussing the possible pit-falls and dangers of digital literacy, regardless of their meaningful place in the curriculum. She then asked the class to stop what they were doing, and raise their hands if they still had Facebook despite her talking to them and their parents about the dangers of using online social networking sites at such a young age. This was a class of 6 year olds; 12 children raised their hands. I must say, I was in utter shock and my jaw dropped! The issue is, in this digital age children need to learn the necessary skills in order to function in society and apply to later secondary learning and beyond. However, this is being abused. Are we forgetting childhood amongst this craze? With children using these online social networking sites at such a young age they are, as you and Anna say, growing up too fast and using online social networking sites that they cannot fully control regardless of any safety settings that have been put in place. 'We are at a crossroads' Palfrey and Gasser (2008) state, digital literacy is an ever-growing issue and debate... But where does that leave childhood and innocence?
ReplyDeleteI’m agreed with you, Anna, for the adverts on the television, you can stop it, but for the computer you can put a “code parental” and the parents must watch what their children make on the computer (Facebook, Twitter,
ReplyDeleteInternet, …). To the television, the only solution is: to watch Disney Channel, for example, because this Channel is for children and you don’t have bad adverts. Because, in the future, when a child will watch on the television a woman naked for him, it’s normal. And the stereotype will be present “women are minder important than the men” but It’s not true.
I know Chloe, my fear is the children become too earlier adult: they have children when they are again children (13 years old) it’s very pity. In more, on Facebook you can have a lot of dangers: bad word, pictures of sex, humiliation, people perverse, … the parents must be careful with this social network.