I’m not going to post the silencer meme again but this really is “why don’t you liberate yourself from the patriarchy you dumb bitch” and yes the very next sentence is about Sabrina’s “short stature.”
Ugh, this shit annoys me so much as a guy who because of exactly this sort thinking thought I might be a pedophile when I was much younger when it turned out I was just particularly attracted to petite women.
Thinking the tropes she’s playing into are “subconscious” is wild like she’s an adult pop star she knows exactly what her aesthetic is and how she’s branding herself!!!
Notice how she realized she's slut shaming a woman for the way she dresses and acts, which then necessitates the disclaimer, ".... But it's the men's fault she does this!"
do you think people writing pieces like these remember she's also a former disney actor? I feel like there's a whole 'nother angle they've left untapped to be weird about
Actually, thinking about it, there's probably an interesting angle to explore how she was the Shawn of Girl Meets World but was played as a Tough Kid like Jeanette McCurdy on iCarly rather than a suave, promiscuous romantic who 'made out' all the time
it's like old MadTV ink blot test skit, where the artist is showing the dude at the hospital his ink blot samples and the hospital administrator is screaming "why are you showing me this lewd underage pornography??!" and the ink blot artist is like 😶
eventually the artist is like, okay, you don't like my ink blots, I can show you a few of my landscapes for the lobby and pulls out this autumn tree scene and the admin is like "GOOD GOD! THIS IS SICKENING! There's a sweaty glistening boy, hiding behind that tree over there!!"
I feel like the problem here is less that Sabrina is "dressing like a child" or whatever and more "femininity is infantilized and being too feminine is seen as equal to being a child"
Like lace and ribbon roses are. 1) very common in lingerie 2) very feminine, but seen as unserious and immature. Also "babydoll" as a clothing term has specifically referred to lingerie since the 50s and us more common there! Regular dresses get called empire waisted usually
honestly 'babydoll and boy shorts' are kind of telling, this person is just trying to jam in as many kid words as possible. what if we said a chemise and hot pants instead?
• What the fuck is happening?
• Is this secretly some tradwife shit?
• Were “thinkpieces” a mistake, or was thinking just anyone could write one the mistake?
You only really become an adult in your mid 50s, if you as a thirty something are attracted to another thirty something you really need to question your motives.
i know i’m preaching to the choir about this but i wish people who clutched pearls and accused everything they don’t like of pedophilia would realize that it actually makes it harder to discuss shit that is actually pedophilia
and it drives me insane that “all women’s sexuality is actually pedophilia” has been picked up as, like, feminism because it rests on the same premise as most conservatism, which is that women are actually children, which means they are property.
Oh God, I can't believe I'm going to read it out of morbid curiosity.
I feel like pedophiles, almost by definition, do not use a (famously) adult human as an avatar for their fantasies as their fantasies are not monitored by the Feds. lol
More people should understand that having a thought is not reason enough to publish it. The process of writing about what one thinks has a way of exposing half-baked thoughts as half-baked — provided you're capable of identifying half-baked thoughts in the first place.
"offers audiences the choice of a fantasy" okay so we're fully in thought crimes now? Sabrina Carpenter's job is to actively prevent people from having certain sexual thoughts???? A standard normal to expect and possible to enforce?
I have to assume this is the view of someone who wasn't actually around in the 90s, when stuff like Hit Me Baby One More Time absolutely could be said to be playing on paedophilia tropes...
I also just assume This Type does this so much because they consciously or subconsciously exclude anyone of darker complexion than tiktok aesthetic beige from counting as a woman anyway
I mean her singing is pretty generic (part of why I'm confused about all the hype around her) but I wouldn't mind it if her lyrics weren't also consistently cringeworthy.
Like Taylor Swift isn't a powerhouse vocalist and certainly she's written some corny lyrics, but afaik she's never written anything as unpleasantly horny as "Juno".
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• What the fuck is happening?
• Is this secretly some tradwife shit?
• Were “thinkpieces” a mistake, or was thinking just anyone could write one the mistake?
I feel like pedophiles, almost by definition, do not use a (famously) adult human as an avatar for their fantasies as their fantasies are not monitored by the Feds. lol
Could I imagine that guy liking this? If it's supposed to rebuke him, might he miss the point? If so, it's bad.
Our species of course obsesses about youth because that’s when we were healthiest & had the least concerns.
Every generation envies the next to some extent because they haven’t yet lived through the same emotional, etc beatdowns. And they look it.