Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 07/13/2009
KGOY “kids getting older younger”
It’s pretty depressing how I’m used to waiting in the line for H&M or Forever 21′s dressing room with middle schoolers. I look over, see a 9 year old with a tube top and low-riding jeans, and shrug. Normal. Kids getting older younger is no longer shocking because it’s so widespread. I think our society is getting to a point where this is no longer a sad phenomenon — its just what childhood is now: you leave elementary school and your life is an extended process of waiting to be a teenager.
The first time I actually thought about the way I looked — was actually worried about it — was when I met the teenage daughter of my parents’ friends. I was shocked by the way she …
