Sryashta spins golden yarn inside which she weaves your fate. (If you are a good and kind person, she may just take matters into her own capable hands and improve it.)
She is the goddess of good fortune and serves as the household assistant of Mokosh, the Slavic earth goddess.
Sryashta is a variant of the Dolya/Nedolya myth.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Blood . . . Boiling . . . Head Going to . . . Explode
Please tell me you find this ad from Real Simple as offensive as I do. In case you can't see it (I scanned it--it's not a very good image), the ad is for Kenneth Cole Reaction, and the copy asks, "How old is grown up?"
you know kenneth cole shoes for kids go for between 80-120 bucks a pop. for shoes that will be outgrown in three months. god, maybe i am just jealous i don't have that sort of disposable income...
I think the parents who let their kids be a part of this should have dinner with Patsy Ramsey.
Children are not adults and should not be sexualized. Would I feel the same way if these kids were wearing adult-sized clothes? Not at all. But the fact that Kenneth Coal thinks it's okay to dress and pose children like little disaffected, post-coital hipsters makes me sick.
Sorry--I can't remember the last time an ad made me so angry.
I don't understand the need to make little kids look like grown-ups. It's like these companies are pandering to the pedophile in this society. It makes me angry. And I wouldn't pay that much for a pair of kid's shoes even if I had that kind of disposable income.
Of course anyone who took a look at my grubby, mismatched, all-boy kids would understand my visceral "That's so wrong" reaction to this ad - these kids are too clean, too together, too absorbed in themselves, and way way too self-conscious. Kids should not be models anyway, in my opinion. There's something sick about it. You can say all you want, "Oh my kid loves it" or "I don't push him" but I think you're lying. I think you are satisfying something missing in your own life by putting your kids on display in such a manner.
I don't think I mind kid models all that much. I don't have the magazine with me anymore, or I'd scan it too, but there's a Gap ad with a baby in it that I swear made my uterus jump. So cute! So good!
Anyway, I think I wouldn't be nearly as offended by this ad if these kids were either not posed as wistful lovers or posed that way but wearing clothes that don't look like adults' clothes (or dressed in adult-sized clothes, like a huge overcoat and fedora). Does that make sense?
I just think babies and kids have way better things to do than be spending time at a photo shoot being made up and dressed up and posed. but that's just my weird little quirk.
9 comments:
Considering the type of clothing that is sold for very young girls, (slut clothing) I am not surprised.
that is offensive.
you know kenneth cole shoes for kids go for between 80-120 bucks a pop. for shoes that will be outgrown in three months. god, maybe i am just jealous i don't have that sort of disposable income...
I think the parents who let their kids be a part of this should have dinner with Patsy Ramsey.
Children are not adults and should not be sexualized. Would I feel the same way if these kids were wearing adult-sized clothes? Not at all. But the fact that Kenneth Coal thinks it's okay to dress and pose children like little disaffected, post-coital hipsters makes me sick.
Sorry--I can't remember the last time an ad made me so angry.
I don't understand the need to make little kids look like grown-ups. It's like these companies are pandering to the pedophile in this society. It makes me angry. And I wouldn't pay that much for a pair of kid's shoes even if I had that kind of disposable income.
What would they have to do to make this not offensive?
Doesn't seem like much. Must be a pretty fine line.
Of course anyone who took a look at my grubby, mismatched, all-boy kids would understand my visceral "That's so wrong" reaction to this ad - these kids are too clean, too together, too absorbed in themselves, and way way too self-conscious. Kids should not be models anyway, in my opinion. There's something sick about it. You can say all you want, "Oh my kid loves it" or "I don't push him" but I think you're lying. I think you are satisfying something missing in your own life by putting your kids on display in such a manner.
I don't think I mind kid models all that much. I don't have the magazine with me anymore, or I'd scan it too, but there's a Gap ad with a baby in it that I swear made my uterus jump. So cute! So good!
Anyway, I think I wouldn't be nearly as offended by this ad if these kids were either not posed as wistful lovers or posed that way but wearing clothes that don't look like adults' clothes (or dressed in adult-sized clothes, like a huge overcoat and fedora). Does that make sense?
I just think babies and kids have way better things to do than be spending time at a photo shoot being made up and dressed up and posed. but that's just my weird little quirk.
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