In this context, by sexualized clothing I meant clothes manufactured and sold to girls in styles that would better suited for adult women with an adult understanding of their own sexuality capable of making adult decisions about self-presentation. For example, they make bikinis with padded bra tops for 6 year olds —…

The superintendent was out of line, but I don't think it would be bad if more schools (and parents) had dress code standards for ALL students, not just girls. Parents have also stopped teaching children how to choose clothes for a particular occasion. I don't think anyone should have their butt cheeks hanging out in…

A long, long time ago, when Julianne Moore was still on As the World Turns, somebody said I looked like her AND IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE. She is so beautiful and talented and good. LOVE HER.

Thank you for covering this. I have seen so many women and girl in India with acid scars. If there was greater access to guns in India, many of these victims would have been shot instead. Women are routinely burned in "cooking fires" also, usually because an abusive man has entered the kitchen. These reports run in…

Sorry, Anaconda is NOT the antidote here.

THANK YOU. A thousand times yes. I live in Seattle, where Sir Mix A-Lot himself hosts the lunchtime old school jam on the radio that my kids and I listen to sometimes...the music and messages in hip hop and R &B, and the treatment/participation of women, has changed drastically in the last 30 years. Nearly every song…

Well, this song is good for Sir Mix-a-Lot'$ bottom line, that's for sure. This video even steals (or pays homage) to the Baby Got Back video. But I suspect this song started with Nicki and some record people in a room, saying "We need a song that features Nicki's ass heavily. And lots of back up asses, twerking. And…

I agree with you on the VMAs — lost cause.

How old is your child? Monitoring what my three kids take in was an easy job for me too, until they got to be 6 or 7 and got out more in the world more without me. Yes, I have to equip them to deal with whatever life throws at them when I'm not there, and help them learn how to critically evaluate the media they are…

Yes...but not everyone who parent who questions media content is a prudish asshole.

I get where you are coming from, but every story about parents questioning any form of media content brings cries of pearl clutching from Jezebel writers and commenters, many of whom are not parents, and there are legions of commenters who say parents shouldn't complain about anything because porn is already on the…

It's so hard for me as a parent to read the Jezebel posts an comments that object to parents questioning media content. I would like to see some societal standards re: what we intentionally make available to kids. At the same time, I agree with Kara here that MTV has always been crap. My mom is a child therapist and…

Anybody else as cynical as me who thinks the water bottle glitch was a publicity stunt from the start? But at least they are helping charity now...

There's much we don't know about this story. We don't know what the rules and conditions were at the food bank (were kids allowed?), what the park was like, if she really went to the food bank etc. But as a mother or three, I can tell you I would not want to wait in line with four kids under the age of 8 in the line…

The food bank near me is on a busy, dangerous road and the line spills out past the curb. I would not want to stand in line there trying to manage my kids.

I'm not taking issue with the principal of helping kids feel comfortable about their sexuality. My pragmatic point is that 30 seconds about this and thirty seconds about that soon fills the school day and you simply can't talk for 30 seconds about everything. Decisions have to be made. If I were the decision maker, I…

Instructional time = school time devoted to teaching/covering any subject vs time spent on lunch, pep rallies etc. This is a commonly used term in education. I asked you up thread if you have kids attending school, a question you ignored, so I assume not.

I do feel I'm being realistic. I'm pointing out that school's have such limited instructional time and so many federal mandates to teach to the test that science has become an extra. I'm talking pragmatically about total allocation of resources. I personally don't think public high schools need to give any…

I understand it's not a unit on bondage. In many public schools, SCIENCE is now an enrichment topic, not a main subject. SOCIAL STUDIES is an extra. The human sexuality unit is maybe 2-3 hours total at the elementary level. Maybe it's given more time at high school level but not much more. Focusing on consent, yes.…

Do you have children attending public school? The reality is that everything doesn't covered —not in science, not in social studies, etc. There is limited instructional time. Personal parental concerns aside, from a purely practical standpoint, talking about bondage doesn't seem like the highest priority.