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[semperfiona]

I just can't get my head round it. Ray throws a fit if I let Rosa have a temporary tattoo--and he has rubbed her back raw trying to get them off--but on the other hand he gives her makeup!

He says tattoos--even temporary ones--aren't "ladylike". But apparently in his mind makeup on a five-year-old is. To me it's oversexualization of a child, or at the very least introducing conventional 'femininity' way too early. (Which would be "ever".)

As an aside, apparently I can spell feminininity but I don't seem to know when to stop.

Comments

[terribleangel.livejournal.com]

Well, can you ever have too much feminininininininity?

[queensheba.livejournal.com]

I think Lip Smackers type lip gloss, and maybe fun nail polish, is all that's really appropriate until a girl is about 10-12. Then I can see maybe a little simple eye shadow, simple lip stuff, maybe. But 5 is too young for real cosmetics, for sure!

[ohari.livejournal.com]

Can I whack him now?

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

gah.

Hearing about Ray just

[leenoox.livejournal.com]

drives me bananananana's, sometimes.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I have nothing against letting little girls play dress-up with Tinkerbelle make-up -- or even painting red stripes on their bodies with lipstick, as long as they don't get it all over the carpet.

But what the heck does he have against a temporary tattoo? Not "ladylike"? I have never heard that one before!