HAHAHAHA!!! Someone created high heels for babies! How cute! Funny! Genius even! Not even close douche bags. So right on the tail of the conclusion of those horrible ‘Bratz Dolls’, a brand new group of clueless idiots have converged on an idea that perpetuates the sexualization of little girls.

Overreact you say? It’s silly to think that babies in soft high heels are any type of a threat? A simple pack of matches isn’t a threat either. As a child, I even found matches entertaining. A few tiny ash tray sized fires, I hurt no one. My ex-boyfriend wasn’t as fortunate, since at three years old, when he was left unoccupied by his preoccupied parents, he managed to set his house and baby brother on fire with a simple pack of matches. His brother survived, though years later still has no ears and has been having skin grafts well into his early adulthood. Like matches and other potentially dangerous items for kids, there are too many circumstances and too many f-ing zombie weirdoes that walk the earth this day and age for the plausibility of light hearted fun to become a worst case scenario. There is far too much evidence to prove that kids and sex mix like bombs and Kool-Aid.

I remember a little girl who did not survive her little sexy life. It was just a little extra heel, a few cutesy moves, some make-up. What’s so horribly sad is that Jon Benet Ramsey was not at all unique as her mother’s beautiful little show pony. Cable television is riddled with documentary’s about mother’s who live vicariously through their gregarious daughter’s displays of charisma. Britney Spears’ tumultuous existence, for example, is most likely Jon Benet all grown up- period. What in the Hannah Montana did anyone think would happen to Britney? And then there’s poor Miley. These are the finest, most successful show ponies. Cherry lip gloss aside, after all we’ve seen and heard, are their isolated, chaotic lives what people want for their kids? Still?

Situations that involve young girls being all glossed up and put on display is more than archaic, it is down right dangerous. It is NOT NOT NOT a wise idea to do or manufacture anything that encourages less innocence from a child, lest they find themselves in a predicament where some very sick individual expects less than innocence. This society is living through yet another war, people are hungry and homeless. Others are depressed, emotionally distraught, psychologically troubled and the list goes on. You do not need scientific studies to prove that in these times we are living in, some people are bordering on insane. Turn on the news, open a newspaper, just open your front door and common sense should dictate the need to actively safeguard kids. Now is the absolute worst time to systematically offer our little children into a sexual purgatory with heels, spa treatments, hooker dolls and slutty clothes.

Then again, it could just be the age old story of parents wanting their children to have and be everything that they can. The high heel idea was innocent enough according to this statement in ‘People Magazine’; ‘Co-inventor Britta Bacon came up with the concept when her daughter turned four, saying, “It would have been hilarious if I could have brought Kayla to a party in high heels when she was a baby.”’ Britta thought it was hilarious, hence the name ‘Heelarious High Heels for Babies’. It’s like Bratz with a ‘z’. Can’t you just hear the voice of that zany fellow who announces the ‘Girls Gone Wild’ commercials? He’s no predator. He’s so fun! On the surface it is all so fun. Seriously, those kid pageants are even funnier than Ms. America pageants, especially when a mother is frantically trying to coerce a four year old to smile and dance, rather than stand and cry hysterically. The problem is that all too often we encourage our children to chase our dreams instead of their own. It’s always been the same problem. The new twist however, is that some dreams ( and a lot more than there used to be) consist of super star, self absorbed, look at me all the time, attention whoring. BAD. BAD. BAD. It has become such an epidemic, that some people like Britta Bacon miss the self absorbed and/or vain nature of the attention whoring that can easily be translated into whoring whoring- especially in children.
Children naturally crave attention.  Little girls easily mock lip pouting and the infamous hair toss, but most have no idea what a legitimate response to a healthy dose of girl power can turn into. We completely agree that women should be able to wear whatever, wherever without being raped and harassed. We agree because women make their own choices and buy their own clothes. While we have no antipathy for high heels or even sex workers (some of the most interesting people work in the sex industry), flaunting sexuality and drawing that type of attention to your self should be the choice of the individual- a fully grown, rational, decision making adult individual. Small children do not shop. The only thing they truly own is innocence and they should be afforded the right to retain it as long as they are considered children! Is that so crazy? Can we at least preserve the sanctity of that?

At first glance, there were no dry heaves or feelings of pathetic disgust over soft baby high heels. Rather, it became part of an amalgam of thoughts; inklings of unnecessary merchandise that may have gone too far. Like everyone else who thinks that increasingly overt sexuality is becoming a holocaust on little girls, we have to ask, what is next?

Some of you will be among those who believe that we have gone too far with this assessment and that we have overused are judgment buzzer.  To those people, I ask that you try to imagine your favorite little girl dressed like a Bratz doll, with the word JUICY across her ass like those sweats they sell so many of, a tiny pair of high heels, glossed sparkly lips– and she’s lost in the middle of an enormous mall. Regardless of your opinion on “harmless” baby high heels, or your apathetic response to a pouty lipped Barbie, you can not deny our concern about who may show up to help her. If after that, you still don’t have a problem with any of this- our judgment buzzer is being pressed firmly on your forehead right now.

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