Fucking eric subscribing to the same fucking channels as I do.

*quality

I particularly don't recommend the youtube comments for this one.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by gorillaman.

You know when you say that, the first thing everyone is going to do is go read the YouTube comments.

This is why having a daughter + pop culture = rolling a boulder up a hill.

Good for the kid, she just made a decision based on what she found visually appealing without the entire patriarchy/matriarchy telling her what to think...

It won't last, but enjoy it while you can!

It's so worth a look :0)

"Berta Lovejoy, Feminist, Promoter Of Equality, Love, and Peace."

Ha ha ha!

I feel the same way when a young boy plays with dolls and likes the color pink.

He isn't polluted by other messages, he is just an observor.

Doesn't last with him either, poor guy.

We are so fricking weird about the human body. I swear.

If only that were true.

This girl is 5 years old. Over the past 5 years, in every commercial she's seen on TV, on every magazine cover she's seen by the checkout counter when she's grocery shopping with her parents, in the majority of the cartoons she's watched and the dolls she's probably played with, in every reaction she's seen in adults' faces to how women dress and behave, she's been culturally programmed with and internalized what modern Western society deems as "beautiful."

It's unavoidable, really, as @Truckchase pointed out above. It's part of the socialization process. But if you've read about how Carrie Fisher struggled with body image issues and eating disorders throughout the filming of the original trilogy, then you probably (like me) find this video more tragic than cute.

Which was part of my point.

The girl is innocent of all the context, and unless her parents are pretty awful, I doubt she's been soaking up not stop advertising that all girls = objects for 5 years.

All that matters to her is what it looks like, free from the judgement of body form, "sluttyness", societal pro/con opinions.

Yup, she'll probably get formed in to shape by society eventually but it's nice to see a kid who doesn't feel the need to conform yet.

I appreciate that there is a strong point to be made about protecting young girls from body image issues and being pressured into looking or being a certain way, i think it's unfair to put that on her decision here.

She IS influenced by society in that she sees clothes in her day-to-day life and decides what she thinks looks best of those. My point being - what is the alternative? Who has the right to decide what to show her and what not to show her of the world, and why, and how will they starve her of music, art, film and friends without hurting her growth?

She will be raised in a relatively affluent civilisation and be able to make her own decisions for the rest of her life, she presumably won't be forced into marriage or slavery, and she'll buy clothes that she feels comfortable wearing, that fit to the style of the times.

I know you have a point, i hope you might acknowledge i have one also. We are all influenced in our choices and preferences by our culture - that is life - why feel sorry for her for thinking that the bikini is the nicest looking clothing item that she's seen? Would you feel sorry for her that she hasn't seen enough hairstyles to choose something less like Britney, for example? At that age, i say she is thinking without regard for attraction of the opposite sex and entirely on what she prefers (if i know 5 year olds), out of what she's seen in her short time.