<![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won? - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won? - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @dosido:
Comment on How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won? Nightwitch99 here; I am the mom of 2 abso great but totally DIFFERENT daughters. Our Oldest (now 22) put her dad and I (and try THIS on for size..WE are the biological parents and married for 25 yrs!) thru every type of hell a girl can put to her parents(drugs, pregnancy, awful boyfriend, theft charges, etc). My younger, now 20, did not. We, as parents, both felt that our children needed the opportunity to BE children and encouraged this via christmas phone calls to Santa (a good family friend) and Easter Bunny (again, family friend), among other 'kid friendly' activities. I painted nails and little toenails. We braided hair, and tried on hats. We didn't censor what they watched on TV, but watched with them, and found that usually, what wasn't 'age appropriate' also wasn't that interesting to them. Sex scenes usually were met with a "Ewww.." , scary things (like ghosts, etc) were met with questions which were explained simply and concisely. They both today are intelligent, independent and intellectually stimuling young women, who are gainfully employed, invested in long term relationships. I guess this diatribe just goes to show that kids need parent's guidance to just be KIDS FER GAWD'S SAKE!!! You can play girly stuff without sexualizing them..You can primp and 'dazzle' with them and still not have them relate it to overtly and/or sexually inappropriate behavior. Yes, sometimes it is a real challenge to explain their friends less "age appropriate" behaviors, but as a parent, you SHOULD be at least a LITTLE smarter than your young'uns.. I mean, when a fellow 5th grader's mother asked the teacher 'leaders' of the 5th grade campout "Can the girls wear thongs?" and didn't mean the flip flops on their feet, Hubby and I realized "Darwin was wrong!! Natural selection DOESN'T breed out the week and feeble!". BIKINI WAXING 8 YEAR OLDS?? Well, SURE!! It's for those damned thongs they gotta wear!!!

SaudaminiPhoenix

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Anyone that does this should have thier children taken away

greghayden70

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I keep reading all these comments from people saying that 8 year olds don't get pubic hair but I beg to differ. My 9 year old daughter that is in 3rd grade(turned 9 in Feb) has pubic hair and has already started breaking with pimples. I'm talking actual dark hair. And she started getting BO at like 7. She has yet to get her period but her best friend (also 9) got it not too long ago. Girls are developing at a younger and younger age. Her pediatrician says that there is a theory that the hormones in chicken and milk and the pesticides on fruits are affecting the girls that way. I started buying organic foods when I realized she was developing breasts early.

However, I would never in a million years take her to get a bikini wax. She is starting to get hairy armpits but she is not shaving her legs or pits until she is at least in 5th grade. I had to go out and get her a puberty book and I have to force her to put on deodorant. She really doesn't give a fuck about how she looks and I'm afraid I'm giving her a complex following her around with Stridex pads but I don't want her to be made fun of.

I didn't start shaving and grooming my pubic area until I was 17 and the guy I lost my virginity to nicknamed me "steel wool". Asshole. G

petitcerise

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Um, walking home from the library with my then-BFF, she told me that she shaves "down there".

I didn't even realise one can do that, being a sweet and innocent 12-year-old.

And then I felt silly for not doing so.

It's quite possible these girls are really having waxes. I am no longer amazed at what goes on.

Also, Muslim girls have to shave their pubic areas. At what age do they start? I can't find anything on the "interwebs".

Tarah_Sweeney

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Here's some Recommended Reading, courtesy of Amazon's bargain books bin.
I think it's appropriate...

ayemaria

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> It's not Philadelphia, it's the goddamn Main Line, the foundry of all things that self-loathing rich people who are bored do. And where I am also stuck until my lease expires in August.

Thank fucking god for the R5 and a job in Center City!

SuperAdge

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> My sister is really pale with dark hair and during PE in middle school was always embarassed by her hairy legs because it was so prominent. My mom let her start shaving around 7th grade because of it. This mutated to then shaving her arms because they too were really hairy. We have a 6 1/2 year gap between us so when this started, I was already in college. thankfully she has learned to tame down the shaving although still laments about how dark and thick her back hair looks. Somehow though she has managed to avoid the wanting waxes and highlights and Louis Vutton, although she does like hot topic. I would say that peer pressure and self-consciousness definitely affected her but not in the way of needing facials as much as the desire to not be noticed because you are hairy in comparison to everyone else. She's a DIYer because my mom won't shell out the cash for that stuff. Does that mean that she isn't a part of this culture? I would tentatively say she is, but she is also an amazing person who has self-esteem but like everyone else, has issues with her body. I'm glad she isn't at this degree.

dummyfakeroller

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I have a fear of teenage girls because I see how insane and high-pitched they are. Also, they swing their Coach purses with alarming velocity - hard to dodge at a crowded movie theater.
Now I have to broaden that fear to include the 8-10 age bracket?
For shame.

ayemaria

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> is it time for puppehs yet?

lermanzo

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @Diane_Court: I think it's different. I'm all for my little cousins experimenting with nail polish and dress up, make up, etc. That's natural but taking them to spas and stuff is just too adult.

I miss Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley, even when I would sneak and read Jackie Collins I still understood, they were adults, I wasn't.

shananigans

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @ihateyourescalade: I do. If this article had taken place in Dallas (some areas) instead of Philly, I wouldn't have been fazed.

hellodarling!

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Would I want my daughter aspiring to be a Disney Princess or Britney/Lilo/Jessica/Paris? None of the above. I hope she'd wanna be Dora the Explorer, or even better, the feisty Maraka.

citymuse

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @blondegrlz: I completely agree about giving girls Anne of Green Gables over Gossip Girl when they're that age (even though I'm a huge sucker for the show *cowers in embarrassment*). When I was little, I think the most risque thing I was reading was Sweet Valley High. It was awesome.

mtbee

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> An old coworker of mine once told me how she had caught her 9 year old daughter attempting to shave off her new pubic hairs with a stolen razor. Her daughter was scared of growing up and changing and when I first hit puberty, so was I. I eventually accepted it and I hope that my old coworker's daughter will too.
Anyway, wouldn't allowing an 8 year old to have a bikini wax somehow screw up that whole process of accepting the changes in development? I'd think that it would send the message that physical sexual characteristics were somehow wrong.

Sparrowhawk

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> These comments remind me of when I was in high school and went to the pool one day with my best friend. She told me that I needed to shave the tops of my big toes because they had hair.

I was like, WHAAAA? Totally confused. Still am at that concept.

To this day I'm a bit of a hair moron. I've never had a bikini wax in my life (I'm 35) and I don't even know what microdermabrasion is. Add me to the list of those who are very sad for these girls in this article.

THAT SAID.... I would totally take my kid for a mani/pedi or paint her nails if that was her thing. Once in a while. Last summer my 4-year-old niece and I painted each others nails an obnoxious pink. Of course, we also painted my nephew's and my father's toenails too. Fun!

Diane_Court

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @RemoteCommander: Yeah, being perceived unattractive definitely helped me develop interests and a sense of worth that does not derive from appearance. From the age of 10-16, I was a skinny nerd who read comics and played videogames and had gigantic glasses and strange clothing. Seriously, I wore stirrup pants and flannel in some unholy combination of the 90's and 80's. It was like the year 2000.

These stories just make me sad. At 8, I was trying to see organisms in pond water with a toy microscope or digging in the garden looking for dinosaur bones.

Micing

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @RemoteCommander: Amen.

happysquid

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @Polly Jean: I have a word for it, it's not "primping" it's "pimping". It is putting your children through excrutiating ridiculousness so that you can brag about how cute they are, and use them as your own front. I have 2 little girls, only 3 and 5, and people always ask me if I highlight their hair! I'm like, "yeah, I do. And also, they are getting a little insecure about how flat chested they are in bikini's so I may get them a boob job. Don't worry, I'll wait till their 6 - THAT's my limit!"

Kaehoku

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I wonder. Will this generation of girls, the ones who have the conspicuous consumption version of femininity foisted on them by their mothers, rebel? Will they eventually grow their armpit hair out, wear their hair natural and forego bras, like our moms did in reaction to their cult of domesticity, crinoline-and-white-glove-wearing mothers? God, I can only hope so.

cassie-la-barraque

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Think of this next time Lourdes Ciccone's picture is posted & some of you get the urge to scream "her mom should take her for a brow wax!"

kittycatcarlyle

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Why the fuck would an eight-year-old have pubic hair?
(I'm sure I am not the first one to ask this.)


murasaki

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> One of my model room-mates at LA Fashion Week earlier this month was 13. Thirteen.

She booked at least twice as many jobs as I did.

rosiered

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I"m 22 and I just now got pubic hair.

nicebrownboy

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Ruthless marketing plans by the day spa industry and parent's that can't no it's unnecssary you're fine the way you are. Makes. Me. Want. To. Barf.

AGreenEyeDevil

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Oh, god. And here I thought the little-girl manicure salons with the pink-limosine parties were awful.

I can echo all the stories about having to wait to participate in grown-up beauty/hygeine processes and such. Hell, I couldn't even get my ears pierced until I was 13--and even then Mom claimed she had never said that and it took my aunts' intervention to allow it. Anyway, it's just so sad how parents, in the thick of the "luxury-class culture" referenced in the Philly Mag article, push their little girls to be grown-ups before their time, over-indulged little consumers that are a mirror image of Mommy...

Mego

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Eight years old? Are these mother's aware of the damage they are doing to their CHILDREN? My half-sister (from my father's 3rd wife) who is 10, just got acylic nails. When I asked her why she had fake nails (trying to keep the horror out of my voice), she said her mother told her that her thumbs were too wide, and she NEEDED fake nails. I wanted to slap my father's wife and put my half-sisters nails in a bowl of acetone. Made me sick.

doxiejen

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> This is sad. Can we all just agree to let our kids be kids? Let them dress themselves in clothes that don't match (today my son is wearing mickey mouse sweatpants and with an oversized brown hoodie and mismatched blue and red socks), have $10 haircuts and play sports with kids of both genders.

Moms: your under 10 daughters are not mini adults -- they are children. they do not need make-up or highlights or spa treaments. They need to play outdoors more, get dirty occasionally and maybe go days without looking in a mirror.

pengcat

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I don't know if this is the case here, but some hair goes well onto the thighs, some hair is very noticeably dark, and some eight- and nine-year-old girls like to swim while wearing bathing suits or wear a leotard at gymnastics or dance. Pubes down the leg in those circumstances would put the mean girls on high bullying alert. So personal landscaping at an early age is not entirely unthinkable in this day of early puberty.

Still, I have a very bad feeling that these scenarios aren't the situation in this story. And if necessary there's always Veet: private and less painful.

StabbyMcStabberson

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> You know, my mom took me to the dermatologist because of my crappy skin that was pretty devastating to my self-esteem. But never would it have occurred to her to take me to a spa or for waxing or whatnot, especially not at 8 years old. That is such B.S. and bad parenting. Subjecting your kid to a painful, and entirely unnecessary procedure to remove hair she probably doesn't even have, is fucked up and it is obviously more to satisfy some kind of insecurity the mom feels rather than a need that the kid has. Any kid of mine will wear plain white cotton underwear and will not get waxed until they leave my house.

JSouth

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> ive never gotten a bikini wax and there is a good reason for it. if my mom had done that to me when i was 8 - because, you know, by that age my bush put sasquatch to shame - i wouldve done some very evil things to her in her sleep. very evil.

dirtybee says bee yourself!

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @nellicat: I think there's a big difference between getting some polish on your nails with mom, and having the child's pubic hair (whatever there is of it)ripped off by hot wax. And I'm in the same boat as you with my daughter. She likes stereotypically "girly things." They aren't her only interests, but she clearly enjoys them, and I have to remind myself that they weren't pushed on her and if that's what she enjoys, that's okay, too.

Meg

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> wtf.

Seriously?

Do 8-year olds even GET pubic hair?

It seems like...I dunno, parents are doing everything they can to make their child perfect without actually going in from the beginning and picking which egg will combine with which sperm. Because that's *gasp!* immoral.

...as if this is any better.

N i s t h a

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @dosido: THANK YOU! All this getting on Dsney thing has been mind-boggling to me because at least in the Disney world my kid gets to imagine she's a fairy princess, rather than a spoiled heiress!

I'm sorry, I grew up on Disney and Barbie and went thru my teeny-bopper faze. Wore glasses and braces etc. Only got my nails done for super-special occasions (8th grade and senior prom). My mom wouldn't even let me shave until I was 14! I had to use Nair because she didn't want me growing up too fast. She didn't want me to wear a BLACK BRA (even when I wore white shirts that showed my bra underneath) because she thought it was too sexy!

I'm sorry. I know I'm ranting but this is fucking ridiculous. I admit I went through puberty early but I didn't have a bikini wax until I was in college! What is wrong with the world today. Your daughter is not your shorter, more petite bestfriend. She is a child. Let her be a child. Enforce rules that will allow her to be a child. God. /end rant

shananigans

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @lanouvelleprive: My mom did the same thing for/to me when I was about 15. I'd gotten a bad haircut, and was already PMS-ing ... so my mom suggested frosting my hair.

After it was done, I didn't really like it - even though my mom kept saying, "they'll see you at school and wonder who the new girl is...", as well as commenting that someone else's frost job looked horrendous.

None of it helped to placate me when I had my HS bully calling me "Snow White" and "Clorox".

scarletvirtue - plays well with scissors

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> In the immortal words (word?) of said Joey Lawrence, "Whoa!" indeed.

Political Party Girl

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> why does an eight year old have something to wax?

baddream

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Parents, male or female, who do this to their children are sick motherfuckers.

Skinny Bone Jones

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> i staunchly believe that the only reason i'm any good at flirting or making friends or any kind of social shit like that is b/c i was incredibly unattractive from about 12-16. it forces you to find other ways to appreciate yourself.

RemoteCommander

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @allora: You're reminding me of Zardoz: [en.wikipedia.org]
[www.utc.fr]

haguenite

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I was definitely not allowed to shave until I was 14, maybe? And then of course there was that time when I was 11 or 12 when I was looking in the mirror and noticed that I had little hairs on my face, and decided to use my mother's Nair ON MY FOREHEAD. Yeah, not the smartest move. It hurt so much that I ended up having to admit to her what I'd done. I think she laughed.

OrianaVox

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I used to play with my mother's makeup - which was largely a lesson in "what looks good on an olive-skinned, dark-haired woman probably looks bad on me." I wasn't actually allowed to wear makeup outside until I was a senior in high school. I did get to wear nail polish after I was in sixth grade - I think my parents hoped it would get me to stop biting my nails. No luck there. I had a real manicure once when I was 10, when I was in my cousin's wedding. (They put little rhinestone flowers on my ring finger nail. It was cute.)

In high school my mother was always sort of disappointed that I never wanted to dye my hair blue like my friends. But other than that she just told me to brush my damned hair before it dried like that.

Frankly, there's no way we would have had the money to spend on getting manicures, pedicures, etc. Never mind freakin' dermabrasion. WTF? Of course, my mother has students whose parents spend hundreds of dollars to get their hair done (and let them miss school for it), yet claim they can't pay tuition. So I don't know why I'm surprised.

coodlebump

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I mean 'Mediterranean'.
Is it five o'clock yet????


allora

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @BlueMorpho: Or on an island, preferably somewhere in the Mediterranian with large, hairy women who take crap from no one.

allora

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> As the mother of a six year old in the midwest, I'm not seeing this as a huge trend.

My daughter and her friends like clothes OK -- mostly they like having matchy little outfits and super soft fabrics. They like playing with their hair, putting it in funny braids and pigtails, using barrettes and headbands, sometimes temporary brush-in color. They are fascinated with makeup and get a kick out of being allowed to play with it. They get to paint their finger and toe nails with pink and glitter polish. In short -- exactly like all the little girls I knew in the 70s.

They don't, as far as I can see, worry about their body hair or dress to look 'sexy' for the boys. Anyone who teaches their daughters that stuff is fucking. them. up.

Taking a kid for a manicure seems like a waste of money to me, but overall -- how is a regular mani so different from getting a haircut?

KLondike5

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @Sev: um, maybe because girls are fucking awesome and the point of having one is the chance to raise one the right way?

thatsrealbutter

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> i wasn't ALLOWED to shave my legs until i was in high school. when my mom found out that i secretly did it (with my dad's razor, i think, gross) in eighth grade she yelled at me. as a result of this i hid my deodorant under my bed until college (that's just me being weird, but still). i feel weird admitting to her that i get bikini waxes, and i'm 24.
i forwarded the link to my boyfriend and he replied with
"all fun and games until somebody ends up bloody, in the basement, and sodomized with an inanimate object."
first i thought he read a different article, but then i got it and heartily concur.

Daglar

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @nellicat: And I have gone to the beauty shop and done this with my daughter when she was about five; we had fun, too. That's way, WAY on the other end of the spectrum IMO.

bigleggedwoman

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> i am a loser. i don't even want to read the article, but i must be a monster because at age 34:

1) i have never had a bikini wax
2) i have never had microdermabrasion, even though last night i was lamenting the size of my massive pores and new wrinkles
3) i am too cheap to highlight my mousey-brown hair, when in just 3 months the summer sun will do it for free

poor girls. they're going to spend the rest of their lives trying to live up to their mothers sense of perfection while i grow old ungracefully (but with lots more money in my pocket!).

number13

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @haguenite: Well, good. I have to say that raising my daughter has brought out the "girly" in me because I have been kind of baffled as to how I, a feminist boner-crusher, wound up with a "let's paint our nails, let's get a makeup kit & play dress-up, let's be fairy princesses" type daughter.

I walk a very fine line in my own head over not rejecting what she likes (i.e., princesses) simply because, to my adult feminist eyes, the princess image is a throwback & regressive/oppressive but at the same time encouraging her to develop OTHER parts of her personality and be tough, strong, kind, and all that jazz.

nellicat

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> My poor daughter is going to be so uncool. Pity the poor kiddo, because I am NOT letting this happen to her.

subrosa

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I have a teenage cousin whom I would dearly like to treat to highlights. But TELL her she had to get them????? NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS.

Of course, it's different, she's not my kid. BUT, I remember being crushed when my mom bought me a bottle of Nudit hair remover when I was 16 and very gently tried to tell me that "in certain lights" my face looked really hairy.

At age 33 I spent one year -- and $1500 -- having my face lasered to remove the hair. It was painful and inconvenient and I was super secretive about it. When I finished treatments and told people what I'd done, TO A PERSON, they all shrugged and said they'd never noticed any excess hair on my face. Including a dude I hooked up with and presumably got close enough to know.

So I personally would be wary of implying to a young girl that something was wrong with her appearance, because yes it can fuck you up and yes it can make you do some dumb-ass things. Nail-painting is one thing. Waxing? Gross.

MGB

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> When I was 8 I didn't have any hair in my bikini area to wax off! And who's looking down there on a child?

flackette is frustrated

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I shaved my legs young, wore makeup young, got highlights young...my mom didn't force me, but definitely promoted these activities. She would make comments about how I looked so much better as a blonde, or didn't I think I should put on a little lipstick. I'm talking about junior high.

Today and I wear minimal makeup and have very strong views on what is age-appropriate. I really regret all the time I spent as a kid obsessed with my appearance. I'm pregnant with a little girl and I am going to be the mean mom who doesn't let her dye her hair or wear makeup in middle school.

Note: I am in no way equating hair dying/makeup application with bikini waxing.

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Oh and about the leg shaving thing. My mom wouldn't let me till 11 or 12 I think and I could only use an electric lady shaver, which gives the shittiest shave ever IMO. My daughter begged forever and once I saw they were getting pretty hairy, around 11 I let her. Now, 5 years later, I think I'd have to pay her to shave her legs half the time.

CHOCOLATECOFFEEBEANS

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @nellicat: Hey, I'm not hating. Just saying that the last time this subject came up there were some people who got really, really offended. My mother took me to the salon with her. It was my own choice to sweep the cut hair up and ignore the curlers.

haguenite

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @ineffable.me: zivah and sarahmc, i meant to say that i got caught up in the language of the post. not advocating that hairy 8yr olds need a waxin'

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I treated myself to a mani-pedi by the girl voted philly's best manicurist for my wedding. Right behind me was a 10-year-old. Now I only *hope* all she was getting was her nails done.

TakeBackWhatYouSaidAboutThor

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @zivah: @SarahMC: absolutely, no one needs a bikini wax. i was just going on extremes. i agrees withyous.

@dosido: i totally see where you're coming from. and you totally have a point.
*tips hat*

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @wawaroo: She "had" to wax? That's probably an overstatement, because I don't know of any person who has ever "had" to wax.
My mother allowed me to shave my legs earlier than she planned because my hormones were doing weird stuff and I developed what my mother lovingly called "werewolf knees". I could say that I "had" to wax, but that's just not true. I'm quite sure I would've survived if I'd had to stick it out another year.

haguenite

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> "Without the ugly years, when do you learn to accept yourself?"

I guess I get what's meant by this statement--there were some years where I look at photos and realize I definitely wasn't some child beauty star. In my tweens and early teens, I had enormous gawky glasses, dorky hair, an awkward body.

But during those years I didn't CARE. I didn't even know I HAD ugly years. At 14 or 15 I just decided to eat better and wear cooler clothes. I never had any crisis of identity or any "accepting" of my "ugliness". My mom never pressured me into wearing makeup or losing weight--she figured I was smart enough to figure it out on my own. So all she did was buy me art supplies and music lessons and musical instruments, to encourage the stuff that will matter after makeup doesn't work anymore.

My teen identity came overwhelmingly from my parents and teachers encouraging me to work with my talents and abilities and dreams-not what I looked like. Why are there parents who are convincing their daughters that the mirror is all that matters!? It's so superficial! Sure, I'm insecure about my face and my body sometimes, but who isn't?

I'm glad I spent my teen years drawing comics and playing tuba, rather than curling my eyelashes and taking diet pills. I'm lucky. And I'm sad that so many girls today aren't.

tscheese

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Where are their fathers in all of this? It's like they don't even exist. My dad was a shit, but he certainly would've noticed my red, rubbed-raw-from-micro-dermabrasion cheeks. Who are these people?!

This is so freaking sad.

NapalmKitty

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @dosido: Wow. Very insightful. *applause*

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @kitschenette: OMG do I know you??? We did the same thing at a sleepover, and in 5th grade, but *I* was the only one who had never shaved. But I've always had thin, blond hair on my legs and you can't ever see it. I made that clear to the other girls but they laughed at me just the same.

My neighbor's daughter started shaving at, like, 9 or 10 because the girls in her class called her a hairy bitch. Now she's 14, about 6 feet tall and GORGEOUS! Mean girls suck!

allora

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Things like this make me think that I'm going to have to raise any future children in a commune in the wilderness.

BlueMorpho

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @haguenite: Yikes, well, I DID take my daughter along to my pedicure appt and I got her toes painted. They did polka-dots on her, and we felt girly together. So sue me.

nellicat

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @ineffable.me: Absolutely! Look, I'm going to cautiously crawl out on a limb here and compare what's going on in this culture to female circumcision in other cultures. That sort of mutilation - though of course it's a thousand million times more terrible - is done by the women in those cultures - sanctioned by mothers and grandmothers. it's just this side of a sacrament. Just as footbinding was in China, it's done to satisfy some sick imagined feminine ideal that somehow gets lodged in the windpipe of a culture until it chokes the life out of every woman living in it.

It's really not that hyperbolic, either. Just because we have sterile rooms and trained doctors to do it doesn't make what what our culture advocates as "beautiful" any less of a mutilation. Our daughters get the message that they have to be surgically mutilated to be attractive. Maybe the mutilation isn't done to their genitals (well, unless you count the sickness that is labiaplasty, for Christ's own sake), but it's mutilation to have foreign objects stuffed into your chest. It's mutilation to have the skin on your face ripped off and pulled taut. It's mutilation to have botulism toxin injected into your face. And this is the morm, this is the beauty "ideal" that little girls are growing up seeing and internalizing.

We have a little bit of a chance here to intervene before the children of this generation are completely poisoned by this aesthetic. It took the Cultural Revolution to end the practice of foot binding, and the resistance to ending female circumcision in many cultures is fierce. We can stop this obsession with eternal youth before it becomes an irreversible stain on our own culture. If I ever get to the point that I think a boob job or a facelift is going to make me "feel better about myself", I really hope I can remember this article. I hope I can allow myself to grow old gracefully so that some little girl somewhere in my life might be able to relax about her body.

Wow, the view from this soapbox is kind of dizzying. Bye.

♥ dosido ☮

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Mother of a teenage daughter here, and I say HELL NO. WTF? @bitchyolympian: I think my girl is prob a little more "girly" thans yours by what you said, but yeah, she is another one who has a pretty good head on her shoulders about this stuff. She is a kickass gymnast/competitive cheerleader and you'd think that because she is on a pretty high profile team at her school, she might give a crap what she looks like when she goes to school. But I would say 60% of the time, it's jeans, sweatshirt, no makeup, hair pulled back. She did just do her first hair coloring and I told her I didn't want her to but I didn't forbid it. I just said she had the prettiest blonde hair already and why screw with it? She does cheer with a girl who has been getting highlights since about age 10 though. Insane.

CHOCOLATECOFFEEBEANS

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> THE FUCK??

Once -- once -- I decided that waxing would be better than shaving. And I decided I'd do it myself. And then once I got the stuff on, and realized that it had to come off, I was in tears. Seriously, I was crying as I gently tried to peel the rest of the strips off, because I couldn't take the pain. I don't even understand this. They are PREPUBESCENT FOR FUCK'S SAKE! What is wrong with these parents?

Meg

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @SarahMC: Next thing you know they'll be selling wrinkle cream to 10 year olds so they can have "that youthful glow of a girl half their age".

BlondeGrlz

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I got my first brow wax when I was 12. Of course, I was an early bloomer and afraid of pain so I refused to tweeze the unruly hairs. My mother, who at htis point had only just started letting me wear colored lip glossy chap stick, let me wax them. However, at this point it was only the area between the brows. I don't think that's inappropriate. I got to start highlighting my hair at 13 as a bat mitzvah present because it was getting really dark and I missed my blonde hair. But anything else definitely waited until i was much older.

lms11

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @bellethellama: Absolutely. I used to be a counselor at a Jewish camp in the Poconos and it was my first experience with children from the Main Line. Utter hell.

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> this is an excellent recipe to sexualize little girls.

lets take a child and make her into a mini college girl!

waxing pubic hair - check
colouring hair - check
double entendres written on the bum of her clothes - check
make up, nails and perfect hair - check
lack of self worth being who you are - check

im revolted that these mothers do not see the harm in this. im sure they are the same mothers telling her not to eat too much at the birthday party or she will get fat and no man loves a fat girl.





pink_orchid_martini

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> that's it. i've officially lost faith in humanity.

thatsrealbutter

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> My mom tried to use a kit to give me blond highlights in my brown hair when I was 12 or so. Needless to say, she didn't know what she was doing and the highlights bleached out way too much. For months afterwards I had to listen to kids at school tease me b/c I had "gray" hair. Thanks Mom!

lanouvelleprive

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @ineffable.me: Even if a child that young had a full bush, why would she "need" a bikini wax?? To please her sex partner?

And whyyyyy does a little girl need microdermabrasion? To make her youthful, clear skin... better?

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> This is why I do not want daughters. I don't want children, period, but daughters? Why the hell would I want to bring a wonderful little girl into this world and then watch her be destroyed by this fuckedupedness?

Sev

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @ineffable.me: Even if they had a jungle down there, they don't "need" a wax. No one does. And especially not 8 year olds! Let it grow, you hormonally-bizarre children of today. Let. it. grow.

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Isn't a form of childhood sexual abuse to do that to an 8-year old? That's way dodgy.

Devonna

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> One of these ridiculous kiddo salons is opening in DC this summer. I weep for the future.

AndSoHadHis...YouKnow

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @Jerseylicious: My mom told me the exact same thing when I wanted to start shaving my legs. Dumb me though just stole her razor & did it anyway! Trust me though, I learned my lesson for starting early and make a point to shave as infrequently as possible now!

marin79

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @chelotoyou: "You gotta, self-ex-press ... In the way-you-dress ... If you've got passiooon, show it in your fashiooon ... BURATZ!"

Don't ask why I know that. but yeah, I blame the bratz too

glamzonhobbitfeet

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> My laser hair removal lady told me she's had clients as young as 8. They were getting the upper lips/moustaches done, which I guess is more defensible than a freakin' BIKINI WAX! WTF.

effeteaesthete

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> At lunch today-- before I read this in Jezebel-- my Brazilian co-worker told us that she's had to wax since she was 9 because she is/was so hairy. So! It happens. But I don't think those stories are the ones that this NYTimes article tries to highlight.

I didn't grow underarm hair until I was 20.

wawaroo

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I can't even get my 8 year old daughter to brush her hair and teeth on a regular basis.

cipsi

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I hear what y'all are saying, but as someone who's been getting her Rudy Huxtable hair pressed in a salon since 8 and relaxed since 13, I can kindasortamaybe see why some kids are in the salon.

That being said, I wasn't allowed to wear makeup (save a recital or audition), nail/toe polish, have anything waxed, or shave my legs until high school.

ceejeemcbeegee

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> isnt that sort of child abuse ... i mean its a pretty intimate thing for someone who isnt a medical professional to do to a child?

nothanks

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @tellmeagain: they'll survive. my mom didnt let me dye my hair until i was a junior in college, and even then it was only a subtle color change.
half my class had been a bottle blonde since the 7th grade. yeah. it was weird. but i never did anything stupid or resented my mom.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @bitchyolympian: Sounds to me as if you should take credit for your wonderful daughter having her head screwed on right.

If you want your daughters to turn out like decent, lovely people, the recipe seems simple: don't overemphesize looks as the key to one's happiness (and I suspect these girls Moms believe this to be the case and are just passing on the 'wisdom') and allow your kids to be kids, not Mini Me, Mom v2.0, etc. It's getting tobe ridiculous.

langtry

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @Jerseylicious: dude, me too. i was made fun of for my hairy legs, but i'm glad my mom didn't let me start at that age. it would have sucked.

god, i feel bad for these kids.

libertine17

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @blackbirdfly: yeah, i run in horror from bikini waxes NOW.

@layladylan: oh jesus christ.

can we just throw this whole thing out and start anew?

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I mean, it makes sense. Most mothers I think try and mold their kids in their own image, whether it's getting them to eat right or teaching them how to wear makeup. I definitely remember mine encouraging me to pluck my eyebrows around 13 or so. So when these moms get more and more obsessed with their own appearances, they expect their kids to be too.

This makes me so afraid to raise daughters. I know I won't be like that, but when you're at a school where all the other nine-year-olds have their hair dyed, you'll want your hair dyed too.

tell Dolly Parton again

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Microdermbrasion at 10? Bikini waxes when there's no hair? Ummmm... I have a word for this. It's not primping, it's freakin CHILD ABUSE. The people in that spa should have called childrens services.
Those are scary and painful treatments especially for a child; and for what? To make a child more neurotic than their already whacked out mother?


Polly Jean

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @ineffable.me: In the article, the person interviewed from the salon stated that there was virtually nothing there, but the mother wanted a wax anyway. I can't imagine why.

The article also quoted a doctor who said that many older preteen girls who should have pubic hair do not, because they shave or wax it. That is horrifying.

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @Jerseylicious: We were playing Truth or Dare in 5th grade at a sleepover and everyone had to say when they started shaving their legs. I wasn't allowed to yet, so I remember being really embarrassed and lying about it. But I got called out because I was wearing a big old T-shirt and they saw the hair on my legs. :(

It is kind of sad that I was the only girl there (out of like 5) who did not shave her legs yet, though...

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I'm pretty sure that if someone had tried to tell 8 year old BBF that such a thing as bikini waxing actually existed, 8 year old BBF would have either refused to believe it or run screaming from the room in horror.

blackbirdfly

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> It really seems to me like there is a difference between painting your eight-year-old daughter's fingernails and all this cosmetic claptrap.

An eight-year-old needs to be covering the crotchal region -- her bathing suits need to not be skimpy -- oh Christ, I really need to believe that this is a hoax.

bigleggedwoman

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Moe, Philadelphia may be pretty normal, but I have two words that can explain this bullshit: Main Line. And you're 1000% correct in your final sentence.

bellethellama

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @haguenite: Once Ariel was a human, though, she dressed pretty modestly. Belle too.

CorporateTool

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Bratz dolls! I blame the Bratz!

chelotoyou

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I wasn't allowed to wear makeup until I was 16. In high school, I used permanent markers to do my nails, and also draw on my jeans. I had my first (and last) bikini wax for my honeymoon. Why do little girls even know what this stuff is? Someone give them a damn book already - like, Anne of Green Gables, not Gossip Girl - and tell them to so climb a tree.

BlondeGrlz

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @dosido: they might have pubic hair, yes, it's entirely possible. But, enough pubic hair for them to need a bikini wax? that seems like a stretch, non?

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> When I was in 5th grade, I first started noticing I had hair on my legs; I remember a blonde friend comparing hers to my dark hair. I went home and begged my mom to let me shave. She said absolutely not; I was too young for that, and once I started shaving, I'd have to keep doing it, so I was better off waiting.

She was right.

(Granted, if I'd started shaving then, I would have avoided the embarassment in 6th grade when a boy grabbed my legs and then announced to everyone in class that my legs were hairy like a monkeys.)

Jerseylicious

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @BetsyD: I could've been waxed at 8. Not that I was.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I'm sickened.

msb2: blue balls machine

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Seriously, this makes me want to cry.

kansasgirl

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @bitchyolympian: You sound like a great mom, and your daughter sounds like a great kid.

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @BetsyD: @ineffable.me: In all seriousness... isn't your skin pretty much bare & hairless at age 8? Don't you have to have a good length of hair for a wax? How can this be true? If it is, who are these parents?

nicoolio

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> But are they threading the eyebrows???

angryblackgurl

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> growing up (probably age 13 and up) my mom would dye her hair and take her leftover box color and dye mine with the extra. it was kinda cool and since my hair was already blonde anyway, it was no big deal. i still think there's nothing wrong with dying your hair since it's not like it won't grow back. plus, mom always did a great job.

however, she had a strict no makeup policy. i could paint my nails, but only colors she approved of and none of the flowers and other doo dads on the nails. furthermore, we never went to a salon - we always did it at home.

i draw the line in the same place, and a girl shouldn't know what a bikini wax is until she's old enough to figure out if she might need one.

rednrowdy

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Please please tell me their April Fool's Day issue came out early.

My head hurts.

kansasgirl

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I thank god daily my daughter was, is and never will be a girly girl. She's beautiful, but she doesn't care about it, she's smart and she only cares about her friends, not what other people think of her. She rocks.

(What, if anything, did I do right? I'm not sure. She had waist length hair until high school and I braided it and stuff, but never highlighted it. She never fussed about her nails, I didn't have acrylic ones then, and makeup for was for ballet performances only. She stopped wearing dresses when she was 7 and I didn't make a fuss except for fancy occasions. She didn't get her ears pierced until she was 12. Hm.... maybe I didn't treat her like a freaking DOLL? I don't take credit for her - she's amazing just because she is)

bitchyolympian

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> really? i can't believe, at 22, i can saw i've never had a bikini wax or microdermabrasion and CHILDREN have? time to drink.

virginiabelle

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> sad but true. I wonder what kind of mother those kids will end up being...

anastasia beaverhousen

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> an 8 year old has no hair down there!!! i'm so confused. and disturbed. WTF.

libertine17

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> At what point does this become child abuse? When you take the girl scout troop to get group anal bleaching? Is that when Chris Hansen will step in?

EdnasEdibles

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Unless that poor child had burn scars, there is no reason a 10-year-old should be getting microdermabrasion.

Triphena

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> An 8 year old has nothing to wax. Does not compute.

skittlbrau = baa

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> How could you put your daughter through pain like that? These moms must really hate themselves.

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @dosido: I wouldn't want them dressing like Ariel though. That shell-bikini? Pfffft.

When do most girls even get pubic hair? I can't remember when I got it though I can remember thinking "Damn, now soon it's going to look like my sister's down there".

I'll just wait patiently until the outraged "But my mom took me to the salon when I was younger and I'm totes fine/I take my baby girl to the salon sometimes, as a treat, and she's totes fine"-people drop in. Five... Four... Three...

haguenite

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @Boredinacubicle: What are they waxing, why do they need it waxed, and who is telling them they need this done??!!

petuniacat

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Also, little girls are developing secondary sexual characteristics at an alarmingly young(er) age these days. Some people say it's hormones in food and milk, others say that this culture's sexualization of children actually makes their bodies react. It's probably chicken or egg. But it's not inconceivable that an 8 year old would have pubic hair. Sad, but not inconceivable.

♥ dosido ☮

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Giving an 8 year old a bikini wax is like using a lawn mower on a gravel driveway. Pointless, difficult and probably a little too painful.

Also, who the hell is this kid showing her bikini line off to?

EdnasEdibles

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> @ihateyourescalade: I think I'm going to believe your bullshit radar. Just because I need something to hold on to.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

And I thought it was bad the 10 year old I watch owns a straightening iron...

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I don't even remotely believe this story. My bullshit radar is working overtime.

ihateyourescalade

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> There has to be some way to put these kids in protective services. I feel like an old guy on the steps of the nursing home, but what are these girls going to grow up into?

redheadedstepchild

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> I know girls hit puberty earlier now but what exactly is an 8 year old waxing?

Boredinacubicle

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> This makes me want to cry.

kitschenette

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Unfuckingbelievable. That's all I can say. This made me gasp & cringe.

petuniacat

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> Now is it OK for them to dress up like Belle from "Beuty and the Beast" instead of Jessica fucking Simpson? I'll take the Disney machine over Libby Lu any day.

♥ dosido ☮

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> AN EIGHT YEAR OLD DOESNT HAVE ENOUGH PUBIC HAIR TO WARRANT A BIKINI WAX.

oh moe, why do you bring such stories to my attention?
my head is exploding.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[How Many 8-Year-Olds Have To Get Bikini Waxes Before We All Agree The Terrorists Have Won?]]> A bikini wax for an 8 year old? What the hell does an 8 year old have to wax?

BetsyD

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