SHOW AND TELL POST #2

For my show and tell post, I went to sociological images and found a lot of things I wanted to use.  I saw a lot of shocking things on there that I didn't really know about society.  And some things on there I knew about but never really thought about.  The url for the topic I decided to do this post on is http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/05/14/skechers-shape-ups-for-tween-girls/.  This is about a commercial I've never seen before.  You guys know what the Sketchers Shape Ups are, right?  Made for women so you can get a better butt and thighs by just walking?  Yeah, they make those for 11 year old girls now.  Which I think is disgusting.  Why on earth would an 11 year old need a better butt? Why on earth would a parent tell her daughter that her butt is too big by buying these for her?  They took the video of the commercial off the site, but they talk about a few key points in the commercial.  In one part, they show a girl wearing shape ups, walking confidently down the street while boys dressed as food walk behind her, looking exhausted.  So, do these shoes make you avoid fatty food, too? It obviously does not make sense to put that in the commercial.  What's even worse is that research has proven that these shoes don't really make anyone more fit.  They don't really help burn very many calories or improve muscle tone. So you're putting your child in these ugly shoes, indirectly telling her she has a bad body, and they don't even work??  All that humiliation and lowering of self esteem for nothing.  I just think that it is really sad that we are now trying to make pre-teens have firmer butts.  What's next? Making babies crawl on treadmills because their thighs aren't skinny enough?  I just think the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous, so I wanted to share it with everyone.