Adolescents

Lolita complex. infantilization. Not much comment needed. It is a fucking infantalized girl being humped by a censored teddy bear. I found it interesting that every time i looked up definitions for the lolita complex, Japan was brought up first, before the book, or the movie.



This is an example of infantilization. It is a photo of a trend/fashion trend in Japan of Harajuku girls who dress in baby doll styles and go out everyday fully decked out like this. They do not just wear baby doll dresses but they wear full on outfits in baby doll styles. I cannot say that this would go for each and every one of them but generally they would act very cute to go with their cute attire and this would be an example of adult women dressing and/or acting like little girls to be cute and sexy to men or to each other.



This would be an example of the opposite of infantilization. I am not sure if we discussed a name for it but we discussed it in class and i came across this image and knew it was too perfect to pass up. This is a photograph of the strange tradition of little girls trained at a young age to be mothers. They push strollers while they could be sitting in one themselves, and they carry around and care for baby dolls while they were just that a short while before. I don't think that most people even really think about how funny it is because it has become such a typical thing in our society. It has a very long standing tradition for little girls to play this way. I think that most mothers would think this is cute. It does remind me of the movie Away We Go in which the bohemian mommy Maggie Gyllanhal is against strollers and says, "i love my child, why would i want to push him away from me!!!"