{"id":15247,"date":"2022-12-06T17:52:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2022-12-06T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:52:22","slug":"balenciaga-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/balenciaga-crimes-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Balenciaga Crimes Against Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

These fucking pantaboots are so egregious, and worn by KK, they are an abomination. They probably cost a million dollars, they make your feet look enormous, and how do you wash them? Everything about them is just aggressively awful.<\/p>\n

And yet it’s the ads with little kids that has the entire internet going nuts with inflated umbrage and puritanical pearl-clutching. Balenciaga has been forced to issue several apologies for the ads, evidently confirming that they are inappropriate child porn, and vowing to implement a barrage of “safeguards” so this will never, ever happen again.<\/p>\n

Where the outraged masses see bondage paraphernalia, I see classic old-school punk.<\/p>\n

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Look at this stupid bear, for example. It’s punk, not B&D! Jesus Christ, people of Earth. Get a grip.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, pornography, or inappropriate images, is in the mind of the beholder. I think the kids in these ads are cute. They are not sexualized, in my opinion, and there is nothing seductive about them. But the furor is off the charts, rife with allusions to pedophilia and child trafficking.<\/p>\n

I would like to have seen a fraction of this outrage in response to the children separated from their parents at the southern border. Children in cages weren’t as incendiary as these kids with teddy bears. Instead of aiming some well-deserved wrath at Kim K for her fucking pantaboots, the internet condemned her for being too slow to denounce the brand currently most associated with her. She finally expressed her concern, even though she dresses her young children in heavy gold chains that she hastens to label as “real.” Her tone was mild but dutifully sanctimonious<\/p>\n

Not too long ago, I spent time with my friend’s two year old daughter, who was running around their living room naked. The adorable little girl was making hilarious faces at me, and I took a couple of picture with my phone. I showed a picture to a family member, who accused me of imposing child pornography on her. I was genuinely shocked; all I saw was the funny expression, without noticing the body parts. We had a heated argument, that ended up with both of us threatening to ask our therapists to weigh in on it.<\/p>\n

Her therapist sided with her, while mine sided with me. I can guess where they’d stand on the stupid Balenciaga controversy. But me and my therapist would be right.<\/p>\n

What do you and your therapist think??<\/p>\n

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