How remarks like “I am going to be dating her in 10 years” can sexualize children in a dangerous wayUpdated by Emily Crockett
Oct 18, 2016, 11:20a
http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/10/18/13282192/trump-young-girls-10-year-old-teens-sexual-commentsWomen are coming forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assaulting them in the ways he himself described in a leaked 2005 tape: “Just kiss. I don’t even wait. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the bleep.”
But as those allegations were first surfacing, another disturbing old recording came out — and this one featured Trump objectifying a young girl.
In the 1992 recording, a 46-year-old Trump asks a little girl if she’s going to go up an escalator. Then Trump turns to the camera and says, “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRAPLodRnd4It’s clear from Trump’s words and actions that he relates to women mostly by objectifying them. If he doesn’t like a woman, he calls her ugly. If he does, he calls her beautiful, suggests he’d like to sleep with her, or says that he would date her.
But disturbingly, this objectifying tendency also seems to extend to young girls.(more at link)