Commercialism should be a sin

Can you have capitalism without commercialism?

I honestly don't know.

I do know that it's gotten way out of fucking hand

With companies shelling out millions of dollars to perfect algorithms

To minitor your every move

Your every desire

So they can then (at best) sell you tons of shit you don't need

I'm so sick of being constantly bombarded by advertisements

Everywhere you go

Every site you go on

Everywhere you look

There doesn't seem to be an end to it

And it gets worse and worse every year

To where credit card companies and junk food manufacurers

advertise directly through elementary schools

How is that fair to an impressionable and gullible child

When grown adults can't escape the barrage

They find the need to start peddling their goods

Earlier and earlier

To built "brand loyalty"

It sickens me &

I can count on one hand

The times my life has been improved

(And by no means significantly)

By purchasing something I saw advertised

Where will it end?

When will it stop?

Probably only when and if Advertisers feel their money is being wasted

And then they will simply

Like the cockroaches thy are

Find a new way to infiltrate your life

Subversive

Coercive

They don't care

When it's all about profit.

No on cares how this barrage could possibly affect your psyche

Or your soul

Which by default

Makes commercialism practically sinful

In my humble opinion

She's not here for your sexual pleasure

I get so irritated when men look at my 13 year old daughter

As if she were a cold drink on a hot day

She's still a child

Sure her long legs, pretty (unencumbered) smile and firm developing body

Could seem appetizing to hormonal males

I get that

But can you have the decency to at least fake it a few years more

Give her time to come into herself

I'd like to think she's closer to playing with dolls

Than sucking on dicks like a Hoover vacuum

She still has the wispy naïveté of a fledgling

The goofy/sweet awkwardness of a being in transformation

From caterpillar to butterfly

Give her the space to grow

Without imposing your lustfull desires into her psyche

Without imposing your coveting desires onto her

It's not much I'm asking for

Just a little bit more time for her to figure out

For herself

What her sexuality feels and looks like

She's already becoming aware of stepping into a world of harsh judgement based on looks alone

Give her the space and time she needs please

To come into herself more

Before you ravish her with your expectations

And fantasies of fulfilling your desires

She is still too young to understand what any of that means

She is going through enough already

Just dealing with her own changing body

Growing mind, ever increasing awareness,

Social structures, teenage dynamics, etc.

Cut her some slack

Before you label her a little Lolita

Because it was just like yesterday

When I held her in my arms for the first time

And promised to protect her for life

And you people are scaring the hell out of me

I don't know how to combat something as subtle

And yet so invading and intrusive

As a lustfull glance from an adult bystander.

Makes me want to wrap her up in a burka

To say the least.

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I'm not saying all 13 years olds are like this. Every child is different. In general I'd like to think girls could have until 15/16 at least to come into themselves a bit more before being assuaged at every turn. Maybe some girls don't need that time. I know I didn't, but that has more to do with being sexually abused at a very young age than anything else. God knows we don't need more of that situation.

And for you very few (thankfully) men that look at my 8 year old this way; I have some choice words for you.  Please go get a fucking life!