I do have kids actually a 13 and 8 yo. My husband and I grew up very worldly, from poor and disrupted childhoods so we’ve both seen and sadly experienced a lot. Our goal with our kids isn’t to shield them from the world or hide things from them, the world is a tit place and every generation had their own “porn, sex, internet” hysteria. In our opinion the younger you’re exposed to the darkness of the world the less negatively impacted or likely to be influenced you are.
we encourage our kids to critically think about what they see and consume, we are open with them and in turn they feel free to ask us questions and we have chats about everything you’ve mentioned. We give them privacy while monitoring and tbh we’ve never found anything worrying so we must be doing something right. They have iPhones and social media just like their friends but they don’t mindlessly and secretly consume content, which is where I think the problem is. Some of daughters friends are really left to their own devices by their parents or overly sheltered and they are the ones dressing inappropriately or even talking to boys
and all the people I mentioned have at some point been widely praised for their antics or still are. Cardi b is still seen by many in the media and fans as a feminist icon of sorts. People suddenly calling it dark and demonic are the same people that called others conspiracy theorists for pointing out the same things back in 2010s
and yes I agree, my initial post literally said no one has to like, understand or support them but everyone going out of their way to humiliate them and make them feel like tit is very weird.
I had no internet as a child I am from the 80’s. I literally had never seen it until I was in my 20’s! How can you compare us with this new generation from 2000’s on? If my parents didn’t like us watching any dodgy stuff they would just turn over the one of the 4 channels. The stuff you are talking about is men wearing make up on top of the pops once a week. It was not being streamed everywhere, all the time like it is now. It is almost impossible to not see this stuff. I don’t even use social media that much at all but I have seen more of Sam smiths nipples than I have seen my own lately.
When my kids were growing up the level of access you are constantly monitoring is mind-blowing. It is interesting you have relatively young kids, wait until you have 15 and 16 year olds - it gets harder! Of course you can shield a young child from these things with much more ease, you just block it but once they gain independence, you as parents are overpowered by all of the external influences and all you can do is hope you did enough. That’s not to say there is no responsibility for anyone else in the world to not bringing fetish porn mainstream. I don’t think we need it in mainstream society, it’s not art, it’s fetish porn.
Cardi B has a huge fan base and also a huge backlash. She is so overly sexualised and she has to be more and more risqué to stand out - that’s the point. You can’t be seen to be ‘boring’ and ‘normal’ anymore because society wants to see drama, outrage, sex, violence, and people are now desensitised to this so much, it’s allowing all kinds of things to pass that shouldn’t really.
Desensitisation of society is a bad thing. We should be ok with being shocked by things and not liking them. We do not have to accept everything we see and like it. Society shouldn’t be pushing us all to accept everything in front of us, I have my boundary and it’s no one else’s right to tell me I’m wrong and they are right just because it isn’t seen as woke enough. This veers into the debate about women being erased from society and I agree that they are. Even mothers now aren’t allowed to have an opinion on how society might harm their kids. Guess what, if mainstream fetish porn harms our kids it’s all the fault of mothers!