Well quite - it's us as adults who sexualise it. The dominant culture of beauty decrees that females should be scantily clad, permatanned and wear loads of makeup, therefore that's what little girls also aspire to look like (although of course they don't understand the sexual implications of it) - it's always been like that though, I remember as a ten year old in the early 80s wearing a black mini skirt, bright yellow top, yellow tights, crimped hair and terrible eyeshadow (once my mum wasn't looking) in an attempt to emulate some pop star or other, then strutting through town thinking I was the bee's knees (appropriately, as I looked like a giant bee) only to be brought up short by a couple of older lads, probably about 20 or so, shouting 'Oy, are you on the game?' I had no real idea what that meant but I knew it wasn't good. But any sexual effect or connotations of what I was wearing totally passed me by, as I was 10 and it was fashion.

The Mail's removed the story about the "primary school prom queens". I wonder if they got intro trouble for it?

There was an 'l' missing off the end of the url:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -tans.html

And here's the just desserts:

Teenage girl 'gang raped' in horror attack on playing field after school prom

Another story from Diana Appleyard, who also penned this:

"I am urgently looking for anonymous horror stories of people who have employed Eastern European staff, only for them to steal from them, disappear, or have lied about their resident status. We can pay you ?100 for taking part, and I promise it will be anonymous, just a quick phone call. Could you email me asap? Many thanks, Diana"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1203094/Would-YOU-steal-lock-childs-hair-test-drugs-This-father-did-.html

If the Government did this it would be NANNY STATE GET AWAY FROM OUR CHILDREN!!!!1!!
But cus it's a parent, it's all good.
Bit bemused by the hypocrisy of the dad being angry that his son might be taking drugs behind his back(which he isn't) that he goes behind his back to do the test.



He hasn't gone off the rails, he smokes weed, a ridiculous proportion of the world's population do it.

His evidence for believing his son was taking drugs:


Does he see no correlation between those issues and the fact that his son is 14, FFS?

And if I were the other kid's parents, I would consider taking serious action against the barber who handed over his hair sample.

Sounds like David Cameron...

But wheres the important news Mail?!?!

What about his class?

How much is the families house worth?

WE NEED TO KNOW THESE THINGS!

Its impossible to make a balanced view of this story without such essential facts.

I can't help feeling Facebook must be involved too. Just a hunch.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... issal.html

Seriously depressing set of comments, at least till you get to the red arrowed ones. I can't believe that people still tell the world that they were beaten every day as kids and it never did them any harm. What particularly amazes me is the number of people who say that if they were this mother they would chuck the 15 year old who reported her out on the streets, without realising that that one sentence is a total indictment of their own parenting.

Wow! That article brings up so many Daily Mail cliches from the Mailites and the woman in the article herself.



And the top-rated comment:



I could have really bolded the whole thing. I would wonder how he expects the Police and Social Services to immediately know which accusations to follow up and which not to, but I can hazard a guess what he means by "normal parents, who love their children" - he'd rather they automatically ignored all complaints made against middle-class people, who, of course, can do no wrong.

However, there is some hope:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213888/Teenage-boys-cleared-Columbine-style-school-massacre.html

A rather sensible call from the jury on this one I think. There’s no logic whatsoever in criminalising messed up kids. Rather restrained reporting from the Mail so far, I’m wondering if there is plenty of speculation and hysteria to come. God help these kids if they play Halo or own a My Chemical Romance CD!

A rather scary number of commentators seem to be in favour of thought crime though.





You where thinking about monsters under the bed when you where 16?



Yeah, because Islamic fundamentalism and the teen angst are comparable...



Much the same as goes through many messed up teenagers heads. These ones where just unfortunate enough to be grassed up, thus giving Plod no choice but to drag them through this process.



Who is to say they are not getting it? All today means is that they are not criminals, not that they don't need help. Cretin.



Yet another prat who can't tell the difference between them not being declared criminals and getting a clean bill of psychiatric health.

Oh and if owning Mein Kampf is evidence of planning a murder then history students and enthusiasts the world over had better start burning their copies now!

One fairly sensible comment at least.

I wish when a jury acquits on any case that people who disagree would realise they are only being fed selected bits of evidence from the court trial by newspapers and the media. Usually the more sensational bits put forward by the prosecution. Why can't the Mailite "lock 'em up and throw away the key" bandits get it into their heads that a jury has sat through the WHOLE case, both sides, and not just the biased reporting that the Mail feeds to its readers?

I've tried pointing that out a few times. You won't be surprised to learn that if it even makes it to the website it gets heavily red-arrowed.