Women Before Their Time

Women Before Their Time / Cubanet, Luis Cino Alvarez
Posted on June 9, 2015

On May 17, on the Sunday television program Passage to the Unknown, the
journalist and host Reinaldo Taladrid, and guest psychologist Patricia
Ares, addressed the issue of gender training received unconsciously by
many girls. Training them, from very early days, to be future frivolous
objects of erotic pleasure.

The phenomenon of the eroticism of childhood, although it happens
worldwide for various reasons, has reached alarming proportions in Cuba.

For some years, it has become common for many parents to dress their
daughters as if they were harlots in miniature. To demonstrate how
precocious they are, in whatever party there may be, they are encouraged
to wiggle, and to shake their rear ends – which still haven't developed
– more than all the rest. The more lasciviously the better, shaking to
the most obscene reggaton.

Not to mention the expensive photos and videos of girls' quinceañeras –
their fifteenth birthdays – in which they change into several outfits
rented for the occasion, little girls portrayed nearly naked, wrapped in
towels or the briefest thongs, with eyes rolled back and tongues hanging
out, in poses that are more suitable for porn stars than quinceañeras.

Taladrid and Dr. Ares, worried about the way in which many parents are
violating the developmental stages of their daughters, commented on the
increased "adultization" of childhood and the "infantilization" of
adulthood. Both blame the problem of macho sexism that afflicts us on
the harmful influences of our capitalist consumer society,
globalization, Barbie dolls, reggaeton, indiscriminate cultural
consumption, the "weekly packet," and video-clips of Katy Perry, Lady
Gaga, Beyonce and Shakira.

The journalist and psychologist also may have spoken not only of sexy
clothes – practically those of harlots – the suggestive dances in the
parties at home and also at school celebrations, almost always
encouraged by the teachers themselves; but also how many mothers and
fathers encourage their daughters and sons to ask family and friends
living abroad for gifts of every kind, and money, a lot of money, when
they come to visit Cuba.

What matters less to these parents is the development of values in their
children. Spirituality, values, not behaving so as to be able to buy
things in the hard currency stores. Who doesn't regret it when they see
their offspring turned into female and male prostitutes.

There are too many Cuban parents, who in the midst of the national
disaster, are turning their girls and boys into adults before their
time. What is even more serious, are those who turn into the worst class
of adults: materialists, hedonists, self-serving,cynical, amoral. They
shall inherit our kingdom of lies and wreckage. Amen.

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