Op-ed Rough Draft

This opinion editorial is about how Bratz doll's commercials increase the sexualization of little girls. This is only a first rough draft and it is not finished yet. 
Anyways, feel free to read what I got until now and please comment for any suggestion or improvement I should make. 
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The average American will spend 3 years of their life watching TV commercials. Yes, only commercials. We know that every type of media sexualizes little girls, including TV, music videos, lyrics, movies, magazines, video games, the Internet and ads. We know that everyday girls are bombarded with sexualized images of all types and that the pressure to look sexy is starting earlier and lasting longer.

Now, sex is nothing new when it comes to selling a product—you have probably it seen years ago with the Brooke Shields commercial for Calvin Klein or any other advertisement—but it is definitely new when the women used to sell the products are 5-year-olds.

 As a parent, you probably try to avoid your child being exposed to these inappropriate content. Advertisements are everywhere and it is hard to prevent your kids from watching those. The Internet is full of sexualization of young girls, but normally, little kids are not very interested in the computer; and if they are, you can just avoid installing the Internet on the computer or put some filter to it. However, when trying to avoid*** your kid from watching any sex content in the TV, you might put on Disney Channel or Discovery Kids. You might think that when watching those channels your child is safe from all the sexualization of children. But you are wrong.

Even though the shows played on kids’ channels might seem harmful and educational, the commercials run in them are damaging and detrimental for your kids’ health.

Repeatedly, in channels such as Nickelodeon and Discovery Kids, commercials for the Bratz dolls are run. These commercials portray doe-eyed, waist baring dolls dressed in miniskirts, fishnet stockings, and feather boas. This does not only encourage young girls to focus only in looks and sexuality but also creates erroneous expectations for young boys about how girls show dress and behave.**

Little 4-year-olds want to wear make-up, and this is because the overly played Bratz dolls commercials are putting the stupid idea that make-up and sexy clothes are essential to be accepted in to the girls’ minds. 

According to market research firm Experian, 43 percent of 6 to 9-year-old girls are already using lip-gloss; 38 percent use hairstyling products, and 12 percent use other cosmetics. These girls fill their faces with color chemicals until they look like drag queens, just as the girls in the Bratz doll’s commercials do.

I am almost seventeen and do not wear make-up unless I go out. If I could survive society without wearing make-up for fifteen years, I’m sure a 6-year-old can have friends and still look pretty without filling her face with rainbow-like crap. (MAYBE DELETE THIS)

(Now, it is true that) The Bratz dolls commercials do not present much sexuality when compared to some MTV shows or adult movies. However, these commercials are worrisome because they are targeted to 4-year-old girls, while MTV shows are targeted to 15-year-olds and above.

Since kids under 7-years-old cannot tell the difference between entertainment and a commercial trying to sell them something, they might view the muggy-eyed trollop’s commercials as part of Dora the Explorer or some other pointless ‘educational’ kids’ show. They might view their cheap red-and-black lingerie as appropriate clothes and think that dancing around a pole and kissing guys is something enlightening.

The Bratz Dolls commercials have been running since 2001, when the dolls were first invented, until today. However, each day, the commercials are being more sexualized. No wonder that the teen pregnancy rate in the U.S. has also increases among the years! And, amazingly not surprising, the U.S. has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the developed world. 

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