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It seems that in many countries now, including Australia, the United Kingdom and the Evil Empire, it is possible to find padded bras for young girls that you see here by companies such as La Senza Girl and Bratz. Mind you, these are not bras for girls whose maturation has already begun. Apparently, you can find them in a size six, suggesting that marketing gurus somewhere seem to have the opinion that first graders might enjoy augmenting their flat chests. Whilst I agree that the notion of primary school girls needing padded bras as a fashion accessory is silly, the ranting of ‘childhood experts’ who claim that such fashion accessories will make the wearers magnets for girllovers is even more ludicrous. Do people not yet understand that girllove, by and large, is a celebration of flatness?
Puberty and the bodily development that accompanies it, ought to be one of the most exciting stages in a girl’s life, including the experience of moving from camisole to training bra to an ordinary bra as the development progresses. A girl should be proud of her body and the way that it develops, but there is no need to hurry things along. Indeed, what is the point at all of enhancing the beautiful flatness of a young girl’s chest with the semblance of something she will acquire naturally a few years hence? The only signal that is being sent to girls who think they ought to do so is that their bodies are somehow deficient and that there is something lacking from girlhood itself. How sad that such a mentality is growing in popularity. Truly tragic that girls are being programmed to think that they must advance to womanhood as quickly as possible and miss out on the delights of girlhood. Is it not surprising that many women long to be girls once again? Only too late do they realise that they may have missed some of the magic of girlhood in their rush to do what they thought was expected of them.
Padding the flatness of young girls will not attract girllovers to them. If it does anything at all, it may inspire the imagination of some ephebophiles or of adult men who find adolescents attractive. But what girllover is going to be attracted to a girl who appears precocious? Girllove is an attraction to girls who have not developed. Period. It is a celebration of flatness, of the exquisitely simple curves (or lack thereof) that young girls possess. Girls in padded bras are more likely to repel girllovers, not the opposite. On the other hand, the signal they will be sending to those favouring mammary development may be much more dangerous. After all, it is ordinary heterosexuals who are responsible for most child sexual abuse, not amarsi. Whilst encouraging girls to try and appear more ‘grown up’ than they are by wearing padded bras may not be as physically damaging as the appalling practice of breast ironing practiced in some parts of Africa to achieve precisely the opposite effect, psychologically it has the same potential to undermine the self-confidence and body image of girls. |