HETERO-PEDO WATCH

“Thanks at least partly to Britney, the marketing of sexy clothes and makeup to prepubescent girls is booming. Rave Girl, a national chain, sells feather boas, leather pants and stretch flares to girls ages 7 and up. “Girls’ clothes started getting sexier about two years ago,” says Jaime Williams, a manager at a branch outside Chicago. “Basically, everybody wants to be a princess. Not like the ones in fairy tales, but a hot princess like Britney.” In Manhattan, designer boutiques like Betwixt and Infinity sell adult labels at adult prices in Alice-in-Wonderland sizes. “Age-appropriate behavior is something we’ve lost sense of,” says Joan Jacobs Brumberg, the author of The Body Project. “It’s appropriate to say to children that you do certain things–like drive, wear makeup–at certain ages. Otherwise, the line between childhood and adulthood will disappear.”” – Time magazine, this week. Man, if a gay guy said that, there’d be a whole issue of the Weekly Standard to ponder the consequences.