Community | November 22, 2009 | 9 comments

Little Girls Going Straight To Heels

source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/little_girls_going_straight_to_heel_7vdP...

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So Suri Cruise has been photographed wearing high heels. At age three. As one friend of mine, a downtown nightclub owner, put it, “I’m trying to come up with a good reason for that to happen, but there just isn’t one.” Theoretically, it’s possible that the toddler chose to wear the shoes. But toddlers also choose to eat Play-Doh and shove thumbtacks up their noses. In fact, one of the primary jobs for parents of three-year-olds is to keep their child from doing things that he or she chooses to do.

All of which means that Suri’s parents (or any one of their menagerie of handlers and staff) made the decision to put her in pumps. Which is impressive, considering she has only been able to walk for around a year and a half. But apparently it’s never too early to start introducing girls to outward displays of sexualization, especially when they’re celebrities. In fact, with her trendy black leggings and chic designer coats to accompany those kiddie-heels, Suri already resembles a Rachel Zoe protégé on the track to premature starlet burnout. Just stick an oversized Starbucks cup in her hand and slap some face-swallowing sunglasses on her nose, and she’s Lindsay Lohan for the toddler set. At this rate, Suri could hit the booze-and-arrests phase before her age reaches the double digits. Now that’s precocity!

It’s an interesting time for the X chromosome, with the so-called “Man-cession” leaving boatloads of men out of work and promoting women to the role of primary breadwinner. Meanwhile, the gender balance is slowly but surely shifting in high-powered fields like medicine and law, with women outnumbering men in many colleges and graduate programs.

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Very interesting social commentary.
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