What is your take on the controversy surrounding Meg Bitton?

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  1. anonzzz

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    seem like a marketing stunt to me.

    the artical author wrote "Are you going to stand by and let this become the cultural norm?" ... give me a break... this will never be a cultural norm.
     
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    If men took pictures like that of young girls they would be arrested.
     
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    Do you mean a marketing stunt by Meg Bitton?
     
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    She should be arrested for this. Kids to be kids. Leave them alone as kids. Keep them out of cheap marketing campaigns and sexual fantasies.
     
  6. Robert

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    It's bullshit. For most of recorded history teens were having children, supporting families, fighting wars, conquering and everything else. This push to act like children are incapable of agency until later and later in life started to keep them from competing for factory jobs. Evan as recently as World War 2 14 and 15 year olds were lying about their age and serving with distinction. Thee is no mahic switch that turns on in the brain at the age of 18 and the brain is still "young" and developing until 25, are we going to make that the new minimum age to get to make decisions.

    While it should be discouraged until they have more life experience denying that those who undergone puberty have sexual desire is ludicrous and seems to be people forgetting their own youth.

    With our society glamorizing the porn star, the half naked women on Instagram, the facebook models stripping for 50$ and a bus pass what did you expect.

    Brooke Shields was nude in Playboy at the age of 11 and it was controversial but passed the supreme court as there is a distinction between art and porn.

    On a website where videos on shooting nudes are frequently downloaded this pearl clutching is hysterical.
     
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    Yes. She is not stupid. She knows it will draw attention. As they say in show business "bad publicity is good publicity"
     
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    I don't think it is.....simply because she really doesn't need to....she has over 300,000 followers on Facebook and at a conservative estimate made something like $5m in tutorial sales alone last year.
    She is known for her work photographing children and thats why she is in demand.......this is a dark side to her work and one that could kill the golden goose if allowed to continue.
    Maybe her fame and success makes her believe that she can get away with anything....I think she is wrong.

    Of course she is an artist but you don't go to an Ariana Grande concert and go home happy after she has spent the whole time covering Black Sabbath numbers.
     
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    I would be :rolleyes:
     
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    I think the issue is that these aren't instances of kids being 'kids' and documented as such. She's not Sally Mann. She's actively sexualizing children for profit and - if it were a man creating these sorts of images - they'd be under a great deal more scrutiny.
     
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    What do u think about this :
    from that time (controversy) we have seen her tutorials been shared?
    Is it a studied move?
    Kind of "advertising"?
     
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    No I don't think so.... although she seems to have increased the number of special offers on her tutorials to her followers.
    I think she is losing the plot...she does regular Q&A live sessions and in most of them she appears to be off her head on drugs.
     
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    "...and in most of them she appears to be off her head on drugs." :eek:
     
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