July 30, 2013

Middle School Girls Talk About The Sexualization of Middle School Girls

Watch these girls comment on the perversity of the sexuality in marketing to young girls.

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In the video below, which was produced by The American Psychiatric Association, you can watch six middle school girls of different ages respond to examples of advertising and culture sexualizing little girls in our society.

The girls in the video themselves, we might add, are remarkably thoughtful and intelligent in their thoughts and reactions.

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