Video: Collapse of western civilization caught on tape
posted at 10:40 am on October 29, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Libertarian, atheist, or no, I died a little inside when I saw that “My Mommy’s a MILF” tank top.
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NOOOOOOOOO.
What ever shall we do without the Brats dolls?
madmonkphotog on October 29, 2007 at 10:53 AM
Dial-up here in the Irish hinterlands, so I can’t watch. Don’t need to. I’ve been on my soapbox about this sort of thing since I saw the first Jon Benet news report years ago.
I have no answer as to remedy.
james hooker on October 29, 2007 at 10:54 AM
I guess this explains why they need to give birth control to eleven-year-olds in Maine.
The adultification of children by childish adults.
Rosetta on October 29, 2007 at 10:54 AM
Eww, Ewww, EWwwww. That is so not good. When did people start taking fashion advice from Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Is “skank” really a good look for anyone, even skanks?
Of course I ask this while sitting at my desk in a sweater and corduroy pants. I don’t think my office would allow “skank” wear.
mjk on October 29, 2007 at 10:54 AM
Those little girls had a bad influence to begin with, they don’t come up with it on their own and it doesn’t happen overnight. Any parent who would buy the MILF shirt needs not wonder “what happened?” when the kid goes off the deep end later in life.
GoodBoy on October 29, 2007 at 10:55 AM
Um, I have no problems dressing my daughters (7 & 5 years old) in not skanky looks. Not so much the collapse of society, but this trend for parents to be buddies and not parents. There’s no democracy or free speech in our house.
Krydor on October 29, 2007 at 10:57 AM
Today, some parents want desperately to be their childs friend, instead of being their parent.
rightside on October 29, 2007 at 10:59 AM
Exactly Krydor, I call the shots there, although my daughter also thinks it’s skanky. Wonder where she gets that sort of thing from?
bbz123 on October 29, 2007 at 11:02 AM
So many issues in this short clip. The dad collapsing because he’s out of the fashion loop. How about teaching your kids to be something more than consumers, so that they’re not pressured into buying everything they see on television or at the mall? How about taking your role as a parent seriously? I’m sure a guy like that is more interested in being “best buds” than a dad.
We’ve resorted to buying boys’ shorts for our daughter, since everything in the girls’ department shows way more than anyone ought to in public. Where are the feminists on this issue? Shouldn’t they be demanding respect for women instead of calling them MILFs?
Did anyone notice that the reporter was wearing a turtleneck? Was that to reinforce the judgmental tone? I wonder what she normally wears on the air?
windbag on October 29, 2007 at 11:07 AM
Western Civilization survived and thrived for thousands of years before we had hoochie-mama dolls to teach little girls how to sex it up.
I don’t mind the cheerleader outfits, because those are actually pretty conservative by modern “standards”. But tarting up little girls might get them killed (*cough* JB Ramsey *cough*) and/or molested.
The Monster on October 29, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Nice intro to the segment: Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank is a “provocative title.”
From the network that brought you “Wife Swap.”
saint kansas on October 29, 2007 at 11:10 AM
OK, it’s monday morning and my brain is still recovering from the weekend. That and the fact that a PLC program I am working on has given me serious brain-lock. What does MILF stand for?
conservnut on October 29, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Pedophile Candy ….. brought to you by stupid parents.
fogw on October 29, 2007 at 11:13 AM
Conservant; Its stands for “Mom I’d like to F***.”
GoodBoy on October 29, 2007 at 11:14 AM
That is exactly right. My son can have free speech when he turns 18.
Mother I’d Like to F***.
Nice, huh?
SouthernDem on October 29, 2007 at 11:15 AM
I was in better shape with the brain-lock!
thanks
conservnut on October 29, 2007 at 11:16 AM
All these options they offer to chidren to tone down the sexy look. How about the option of telling your child NO, your not going to dress like a “skank.”
abinitioadinfinitum on October 29, 2007 at 11:16 AM
Agreed with this video. Just yesterday while watching my Panthers get shalacked by the Colts, the halftime show was the ‘kiddie Top Cats’. The ‘Top Cats’ are the Panther’s cheerleaders best known for the lesbian sex in the bathroom stall in Tampa Bay a couple years ago.
Don’t get me wrong, I love NFL cheerleaders. But I was a little uncomfortable with the whole scene of the kiddies 6-12 (like a thousand of them) dressed similarly and dancing on the field at halftime. I know it was harmless, and the girls seemed to love it.
Maybe it was just me. But I agree with this video.
ThackerAgency on October 29, 2007 at 11:17 AM
conservnut on October 29, 2007 at 11:16 AM
I’m 45 years old and didn’t know what it meant until about a year ago. I was better off not knowing too.
GoodBoy on October 29, 2007 at 11:19 AM
I remember reading an article where the tween girls would call girls dressed like that ‘prostitots’.
Canadian Infidel on October 29, 2007 at 11:21 AM
On the other end of the degredation spectrum are the cougars dressed like this.
When you have a divorce rate like we have and the 40 year old mom is dressed like a 19 year old trollop,what do you think the daughters are going to do?
bbz123 on October 29, 2007 at 11:29 AM
Oh, and for y’all that might not be familiar with the “cougar” concept,
Noun. A 35+ year old female who is on the “hunt” for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male. The cougar can frequently be seen in a padded bra, cleavage exposed, propped up against a swanky bar in San Francisco (or other cities)waiting, watching, calculating; gearing up to sink her claws into an innocent young and strapping buck who happens to cross her path. “Man is cougar’s number one prey”
bbz123 on October 29, 2007 at 11:32 AM
Having HUGE problems with this myself. It’s getting harder and harder to find decent clothes at Wal-mart for my (almost) 3yo little girl. Fortunately, my wife has taken up sewing, so that’s helped.
While I agree with the comments on the “My mom’s a MILF” tanktop, while in Wal-mart the other day, I saw something even worse. A “mother,” probably no more than eighteen or nineteen, was dressed like a whore, and had her roughly two-year-old daughter with her. The daughter’s shirt had “Future MILF” emblazoned across the front. I give her about twelve years, and she’ll be the “M” part of that statement, unless her mom smartens up.
But I doubt she will…
jedijson on October 29, 2007 at 11:38 AM
What the hell? Parents dress up their kids as pedophile bait? This is just sick.
thuja on October 29, 2007 at 11:38 AM
“But the parents have the power”…exactly! I know it is hard to shop, as I try to buy cloths for my (ages 2-6 year old) neices and I won’t pay to have them look like a hooker. They are little girls and it is such a short window of time in todays world where you get your “little girl”.
Pam on October 29, 2007 at 11:38 AM
I never had the slightest trouble telling either daughter “no.” And any daughter of mine who tried to tell me that “I just don’t understand fashion” would learn very quickly exactly how badly I don’t understand fashion…
Embarrassment is not a bad teaching tool.
Bob's Kid on October 29, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Oh, the irony. Complaining about such things at “My mommy’s a MILF” and then using this photo on one’s Web page.
rivlax on October 29, 2007 at 11:39 AM
My son received a “Junior Pimp” t-shirt for his third birthday from my husband’s 20 y/o half-sister who thought it was the greatest thing she had ever seen. He’s never worn it and when we move to KS early next year, it will be one of those items that just doesn’t make the trip (actually it’s been long gone in the garbage can since June) but she’s planning on visiting us in August. I will have to have a talk with her if she plans on bringing any clothes out for gifts.
I am 43 and when we got back from HI, I met some of my friends from high school in Chicago for a mini-reunion. I was shocked at a number of my friends. They were the epitome of the “cougar” that bbz123 was talking about. They’ve had all kinds of plastic surgery, they dressed like skanks, and frankly I was somewhat embarassed to be with them as were the other “13 dorks” as we called ourselves. There were 28 of us who got together for this weekend and 15 of them were like this. Twelve of them have been divorced two and three times, the other three had also been divorced and one of them was bragging about her live in boyfriend of 23. Everyone of course showed off their kids pics and all the girls dressed just like their mom and it was disgusting to see an 8 y/o with a very short skirt and belly bearing top and this kid was wearing a very padded bra.
It is hard to find clothes for my daughter who is 4 1/2 and it’s been that way since she got out of the 18m clothes. I am glad to see that other parents feel that way too. Sometimes I think I’m the only one who does.
Catie96706 on October 29, 2007 at 11:44 AM
When I drive by my local middle-school school and it is recess, some of the young ladies are dressed like street walkers. Very sad, very sad indeed.
Wuptdo on October 29, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Hey, moron parents: TURN OFF THE FREAKING TV!
Where else are your kids getting these ideas?
Also, where are your kids getting the idea that they can argue you into buying this stuff?
Send ‘em to church school or talk your current school into having school uniforms. That will help.
Ali-Bubba on October 29, 2007 at 12:04 PM
The first time my daughter complains about her clothes, we will be going to the goodwill store.
ArmyAunt on October 29, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Important point. I tell my kids that democracy begins when they’re 18 and/or paying their own bills.
In the meantime, this is fascist Spain, and I’m Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Ali-Bubba on October 29, 2007 at 12:09 PM
I believe we have (imao) a winner. Bravo.
Jaibones on October 29, 2007 at 12:09 PM
Alright, alright that’s enough, my breakfast wasn’t quite settled. ;:- P
abinitioadinfinitum on October 29, 2007 at 12:13 PM
Forgot to mention the cheerleading thing. We attend the local kid’s football league games, where they have cheerleading squads accompanying each age group (down to about six-years-old). I have yet to see a cheerleader’s mom who doesn’t look like a whore. These kids don’t stand a chance of developing any sense of morality other than what the television and “People” magazine tell them.
windbag on October 29, 2007 at 12:18 PM
Heh…I guess MILFs sell more books than frumps.
flipflop on October 29, 2007 at 12:22 PM
This is exactly what you get when you subscribe to “it takes a village”
The moral fabric of our culture has made major shifts since the start of the industrial revolution. Each generation is successively more degenerate.
Where even just 40 years ago we considered Chastity, Honesty, and Diligence virtues, today our culture values Sexiness, wealth, and Fame.
What is right is wrong and what is wrong is right.
TheSitRep on October 29, 2007 at 12:24 PM
They didn’t even show the worst. I was in a mall a little while back and a girl, that couldn’t have been older than 12 was with her mom. The girl’s t-shirt said, “My boyfriend thinks he is the first.” I was wondering where the mom’s corresponding t-shirt was that reads, “I encourage my daughter to be a whore.”
This is all about some really stupid parents, who have given up any leadership role in the family.
Buford on October 29, 2007 at 12:35 PM
Give me a break. You don’t negotiate with small kids, you act like an adult and look out for their behalf. It is the desire of Liberals to raise your children the way they see fit. Slut outfits work great until you’re old enough to get birth control at middle school.
Take your kids to church, teach them self respect by example, and defend them from the kooks who make these clothes, put them on meds, and try to gain parity with your parental authority.
Hening on October 29, 2007 at 12:44 PM
What would be the answer to a shrinking western population growth is now a Planned Parenthood two-fer-one special.
Is it living vicariously through their children?
Kini on October 29, 2007 at 12:47 PM
Seriously.
Sometimes it really does seem like they should license people to have kids, but birthrates are already so low.
It’s depressing how stupid some parents are today.
apollyonbob on October 29, 2007 at 12:54 PM
I saw the Headline six-year-old thread first, and if AP doesn’t mind, I want to repost my thoughts because as a mom this is something close to my heart:
I have a beautiful daughter now in college. We safely steered through these shoals and she wears feminine clothing that’s lovely.
When she was a child I bought her clothes in her favorite colors, that were attractive, and dresses that were pretty-not sexy. Once she got beyond girl sizes it was much more difficult to find this type of clothing. We increasingly went the route of ordering things from Lands End and L. L. Bean. I’m not getting a commission :), they were just the most easily accessible places to still find clothes that were casual, feminine, and didn’t make her look like she was trolling for men. If you sew, that’s another option.
We discussed being attractive without being alluring. The only small tug of war we ever had was over swimsuits, but I held firm and I’ve talked with her frankly as she was in her teen years about men’s eyes and imaginations. As she got older her favorite places to shop have become Good Will and thrift stores. She has great taste and can put outfits together that really look good.
locomotivebreath1901 in the headline thread had an important point about pedophiles. Children have to grow and development a secure sense of self and of appropriate boundaries. Dress your child as a child and let them be children. Our daughter was a gorgeous child but I never entered her in one of these kid beauty contests. I also think makeup can wait until the mid-teen years–I set the rule at 15.
Parenting requires vigilance done with love. It can be a marathon, but the result of a delightful young adult has been worth the perseverance.
INC on October 29, 2007 at 12:55 PM
OK, What am I missing here?
Parents are complaining that there is all this provocative stuff instead of more decent clothing. Somebody is buying that crap and, I could be wrong here, the 4-year-old probably isn’t using her charge card while her parents are away! Retailers will stop selling that crap when it stops being profitable. It really is that simple.
It’s time to get all the no-talent whores off that “role model” bandwagon. But, beyond that, parents need to stop being their lil’ darlin’s best friend and start being the adult/parent. You know, the one that doesn’t let them dress like a pint-sized prostitute dragging herself home after a long night on some street corner.
highhopes on October 29, 2007 at 12:58 PM
How many kids do you have, idiot?
This is our culture dammit! And it’s not just TV! We have a right to watch a football game with our kids without having to tivo and censor it. We have a right to be able to walk thru the mall without feeling like it’s the freaking red light district.
The “pornification” of our culture is nearly complete. And it’s not all the parent’s fault!
edgehead on October 29, 2007 at 1:03 PM
This is true. My parents dressed me in a polyester leisure suit when I was five and I was scared ever since. (sob)
RobCon on October 29, 2007 at 1:17 PM
We have a right to watch a football game with our kids without having to tivo and censor it.
edgehead
Um, what now? Never had that problem, and Sundays at our house is football from 10 AM until 9:30 PM. My wife and I are pretty good with the program regulation of our daughters, although some slip through the cracks, but football?
Krydor on October 29, 2007 at 1:27 PM
I had to google the meaning of MILF… I shouldn’t have. How obscene.
As to dressing my girls, it’s jeans (levi’s and wrangler) and t-shirts for the eldest at school (the youngest is in Catholic school)and proper length skirts for both on special occasions.
I’ve hated the Bratz ever since I first saw them and I am quite frank with my girls as to why. Last year, for Christmas, my youngest got a Bratz doll as a present from her father (my ex). I returned it to him, unopened, after I called him and explained that I didn’t want my daughters playing with slutty looking dolls and that anything Bratz is verboten in my home.
The Jerk sent her a Bratz alarm clock for her birthday. I sent it back to him in pieces. He got the message after that.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on October 29, 2007 at 1:29 PM
Oh the frustration with this! I did all the things you all suggested. We didn’t have cable. My kids were not allowed to watch anything over “G” rating until they were 13. Then PG or PG 14 if approved.
I have a beautiful daughter, who unfortuntaly developed early and well. I fought this battle for about 3 yrs. And this was during Britney Spears heyday. They all wanted their belly showing. My daughter borrowed clothes from friends and snuck and wore them. I threw away anything I could find. Which ended the borrowing pretty quickly. We fought and we fought over clothes, the meaning of modesty, and what it means to be classy…ect. I could tell you stories. At the time they are rebelling you feel you can hardly win, especially with all the culture acceptance of what they want. But I dug deep and kept at it. She didn’t like me very much during those years and that was hard, harder than I can say.
But all things work toward good, so says Romans. And it has. She is 19 now and in college and although freesprited and wonderful, her values are my values.
You can check out her new blog!
High Ideals In High Heels
She’s awesome if I do say so myself!
Rightwingsparkle on October 29, 2007 at 1:34 PM
Brave New World, here we come!
The Left must be ecstatic about this, even if they won’t admit it.
Lancer on October 29, 2007 at 1:37 PM
After the liveleak video, liveleak put up links to other “similar” videos the way that youtube does. Want to know the title of the one of them?
“Young topless ladies having fun on the beach”, a video from “ilovethebeach dot com”
Yes.
From “don’t dress your 6 year old daughter like a skank” to soft porn.
The end of civilization is at hand.
georgej on October 29, 2007 at 1:58 PM
The Bratz dolls are the worst. I told my daughter “absolutely not” to anything in that toy line. I explained to her that the way they dress gives them “a sassy attitude” that is unacceptable in our home. She understood exactly what I meant.
As long as I still hold the power of the purse, my daughter won’t be caught dead in tacky, gross, unflattering clothes. She is much too precious to dress like a little prostitute.
I said in the Headlines thread that we’re lucky because she likes to wear jeans, a camo shirt and hunting boots. She’s much more interested in finding frogs and all sorts of nasty critters. We are an outdoorsy kind of family and half-shirts and wife-beaters just don’t mesh with hunting and fishing.
pullingmyhairout on October 29, 2007 at 1:58 PM
Rightwingsparkle’s experience with her daughter doesn’t quite parallel ours with our two daughters, but it’s close enough. We saw some of the same pressures, and I exercised strict control. When my youngest, at age 17 tried to leave the house for school wearing a micro skirt, sans pantyhose, and a very tight top, I went ballistic.
3 years later, she still hasn’t forgiven me for it!
georgej on October 29, 2007 at 2:06 PM
Congrats, Rightwingsparkle! The game is worth the candle.
Thanks for saying that. There are so many tough instances in parenting when you have to dig deep and hang tough.
It’s important to talk about modesty and being classy. I never wanted my daughter to wear a bag, I wanted her to look great.
BTW, I like the name of her blog!
INC on October 29, 2007 at 2:28 PM
georgej, as your daughter grows older, I hope she’ll also grow in wisdom and realize your motivation of protection and love and be grateful for what you did.
INC on October 29, 2007 at 2:31 PM
“My mommy is a MILF”?????
The liberals are destroying this country from the inside.
csdeven on October 29, 2007 at 2:49 PM
I hate to defend liberals, but I don’t think it’s liberalism as much as it’s ignorance and stupidity.
pullingmyhairout on October 29, 2007 at 3:03 PM
Isn’t that the definition of liberals? I mean really, if you are ignorant and stupid, you really aren’t a conservative regardless of what you claim.
csdeven on October 29, 2007 at 3:19 PM
Of course I don’t me “you” personally, but rather in a general sense.
csdeven on October 29, 2007 at 3:19 PM
That moron that said his daughter tells him he doesn’t know fashion, and he says “how can I compete against that”.
Well, I tell you how to compete againt that claim. GROW UP AND BE AN ADULT AND FATHER, and MOST IMPORTARNTLY, BE A MAN. What kind of wimp are you to let a 5-6 yr old tell you how she will dress.
Helloyawl on October 29, 2007 at 4:05 PM
Please shoot me if I ever have a daughter like that/ever become a parent like that. I’m hoping that by the time I have children we’ll be able to engineer how they’ll act before they’re five.
Nonfactor on October 29, 2007 at 4:32 PM
Isaiah 3:4-5
Romans 1:28
The chickens are coming home to roost, unfortunately. We’ve left our first Love. And it ain’t Hollywood’s fault. It’s Christians here in America. Me. I’m part of the problem. I don’t pray enough.
2 Chronicles 7:14
Only a revival of the Holy Spirit in our land will fix this. It’s got to be ground up, not top down.
spmat on October 29, 2007 at 4:36 PM
When one of my daughters was 12 she wanted a then-popular “belly chain” to wear with her (modest) bikini. After I said no she saved her allowance and got her friend’s “buddy/mother” to buy one for her. She unveiled it when we were out in the middle of the bay in our boat. Her sister asked to try it on and I (happily) intercepted it and hurled it into the 30 foot deep water saying, “There’s $15 you’re never going to get back.” When we got home I made her take $30 from her account, drove her to the store where she bought dog toys and treats which we brought to the local animal shelter.
She’s in her late 20’s now and tells that story whenever she hears some weak parent whine about not being able to control what their kids wear. Good/strong/loving parents don’t need their kids to love them back. My philosophy was and still is: if your teenage kids don’t “hate” you at least once a week, you’re not doing your job. I always tried to “catch” my kids being good and loved them up for it. As long as they respect you when they’re young, they will love you later.
NightmareOnKStreet on October 29, 2007 at 4:54 PM
“I died a little inside when I saw that “My Mommy’s…..”
Well, looks like there is a
Christiantheist in you somewheremainmann on October 29, 2007 at 5:03 PM
You know what they call a male “cougar?”
The Race Card on October 29, 2007 at 5:19 PM
A guy.
The Race Card on October 29, 2007 at 5:19 PM
Bravo!!!
The Race Card on October 29, 2007 at 5:25 PM
The scariest thing is this – 3 white guys, 2 of them fathers.
Of course, Pimpfants just seems wrong on so many levels. I mean, an assortment of tanks called Baby Beaters? A mini basketball uniform that has “Jr. Pimp Squad” emblazoned across the jersey? A t-shirt with “My Mom Is a MILF” imprinted on it? (Please don’t ask me to explain MILF.) Yet if this sounds like a fashion statement engineered by some urban rap artist, think again. The backers of the Portland, Ore.-based Pimpfants are three married white guys (two of them fathers of young kids themselves). One of the partners who preferred to remain anonymous (hey, wouldn’t you?) was only too happy to speak on the telephone Monday about the partners’ five-month-old company.
AprilOrit on October 29, 2007 at 5:38 PM
White capitalist yuppies cashing in on ghetto attitude and white capitalist yuppies buying it.
AprilOrit on October 29, 2007 at 5:46 PM
NightmareOnKStreet, great story.
INC on October 29, 2007 at 6:45 PM
edgehead writes:
More than you do, I’ll bet $50.
It is not “our” culture, unless you mean by that second-person possessive pronoun to include yourself among the morons who can’t stand to be in a room of their house without a TV on in the background.
The downward cultural pressure in TV is exerted chiefly by the mass audience that watches TV constantly. Constant TV watching destroys intellectual capacity, and a vicious cycle ensues.
Breaking children of TV addiction is the first step toward fixing that problem.
How many hours a day are you watching TV? How many hours a day do your kids watch TV?
If you won’t turn the TV off, no matter how bad it gets, then you’re part of the problem, not part of the solution. Set a good example: Pick up a book and turn off the TV.
Ali-Bubba on October 29, 2007 at 6:49 PM
Power to the parents!
aengus on October 29, 2007 at 6:52 PM
LOL! You GO PP!
I too had to google MILF. Oh. My. Gosh.
inviolet on October 29, 2007 at 6:55 PM
Why do they even make high heels for eight-year-olds? Sigh…Because moms & dads buy them.
jgapinoy on October 29, 2007 at 10:25 PM
Are children really off limits in MSM? If so, not for long.
petefrt on October 29, 2007 at 10:30 PM
I had to Google MILF as well. May God forgive me for the loss of innocence from blissful ignorance that I will never be able to recover.
Anyone who gives my child something that objectionable (I don’t have one yet, so we’re speaking in the future) will see me turn into St. John the Evangelist and will receive quite the sermon. If my child wants something I wouldn’t want for him/her, feels deprived, and calls me a fascist, I’ll take some pride in knowing I’m doing my job right even as I dole out a grounding for the backtalk.
flutejpl on October 30, 2007 at 10:07 AM
Here’s another one. Apparently, some people think this is funny.
Jezla on October 30, 2007 at 4:32 PM
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