Entristece-me a exagerada invasão de privacidade, nesta era que tudo se fotografa/olha e pouco se vê, de crianças de tenra idade que não têm poder para se libertarem dos disparos de câmaras óbvias mas indiscretas. Interrogo-me como serão estas crianças (sobretudo as meninas-que-se-querem-princesas) quando chegarem a adolescentes, como lidarão com o excesso de exposição pública, com o olhar do outro, com uma eventual ausência de exposição e suas consequências na auto-imagem (necessidade/procura de exposição como validação de valor...).
A palavra 'NÃO' pode ter tem imensa força mas, também é necessário ser capaz de convocar essa força interior para a proferir e, em era patriarcal está mais do que comprovado que demasiadas vezes isso não acontece quando deveria e os consequentes estragos acontecem.
"Even young women who are not megafamous have typically picked up on what makes them appear valuable by the age of 15. Their capacity to perpetuate these standards doesn’t mean they are not also victims of these standards. If anything, it shows how girls’ bodies and sexuality are so deeply regulated by a society that despises women and fetishizes youth that some of us learned how to carry out its work all on our own."
"In the flurry of recent Britney Spears commentary, I thought of a few men who would be relieved to learn that it is considered anti-feminist and sex-negative to suggest that there is anything dubious about sexualizing teenagers. One of them already had a good handle on this argument when I was 18. He seemed to believe that, given my professional credentials, I was above harm or that my purported emotional maturity implied consent — because if you are really mature, you are a willing and enthusiastic sexual partner, and if you don’t already know that, perhaps a few rounds of badgering, defying your “no” and “That makes me uncomfortable,” will teach you; surely, no one as powerful as you would ever actually do something she didn’t truly want to do."
