What are the BBC thinking??!

It's men who need to change their thinking. Girls and women should not have to think about what they are wearing in case they inflame the desires of a poor man who can't help himself.

Yes, it's a shame all modesty seems to have vanished and children and teenagers are wearing skin right clothes which accentuate their body shape.

I realise we have moved on but so many clothes are very revealing and I'll admit to inwardly tutting as I walked behind a rather chubby young mother the other day, who was wearing nude coloured, almost transparent leggings. They left nothing to the imagination and weren't in the least flattering. Others were staring.

As for men looking at women, well, it's always happened and it doesn't mean they're perverts. I remembered walking along a long stretch of country road in the 70s wearing a tartan mini skirt and fitted top. So many drivers either honked or whistled, shouted from their windows. I didn't feel threatened but I remember feeling self-conscious.
Today, young girls in their revealing clothes seem very confident.
I dare say back in the 1970s older women might have considered the mini-skirt inappropriate.
Times change and we are more aware of paedophiles and sexual predators. All I know is, my grandaughter, 12, is now very interested in fashion and the clothes available to buy are the sort of things an adult woman might wear. Far too old and revealing for her young body, imo, but that's what shops are selling.

When out shopping together, she rejects all my notions of what would look nice on her, is suitable, etc

Gracey - good post, I agree with what you say. I would never be (delete as required) brave/bold/brazen enough to wear some of the clothes around now. It seems anything goes whatever shape you are and they seems to have body confidence even when they really shouldn't!

This thread is about children not adults.

Where's the necessity for filming a youg girl's bum?
I cerainly can't see one.
I wouldn't allow a friend to do it, why would the BBC need to?

MissAdventure

Where's the necessity for filming a youg girl's bum?
I cerainly can't see one.
I wouldn't allow a friend to do it, why would the BBC need to?

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Exactly this.

That was the whole gist of the thread Sago and MissAdventure, then it became all about girls/women being allowed to wear what they want and some thought I was being prohibitive.
It was primarily about footage to accompany a piece on schools closing because of the heat which featured a close up of a school boy’s bum and a schoolgirl’s bum, presumably in gym kit. The schoolgirl’s bum - which pretty much filled the screen - was in tight fitting short shorts. There was no other part of the body in shot it just zoomed in on the bums, oh there was a hand visible swinging a water flask. Now I am no Mary Whitehouse but this troubled me. Perhaps others think it is ok, that is their opinion, but it has nothing to do with girls/women making their own choices, is about images promoted by the BBC of children’s bottoms, especially the girl’s, which could have been watched many times over by men who were by no means interested in schools closing.
Why not just show a school with a sign outside saying closed?

I think some of us got the point Fallingstar but it took sensible down to earth MissAdventure to spell it out.

Indeed.

Have you a link so we can see the clip you are referring to please ?

I really wish I could supply one GrannyGravy but cannot find it. I suppose will just be one of those ‘you had to see it to understand it’ situations.
Ah well, never mind.

Fallingstar said it was the Wednesday morning news on BBC1, and they don't keep the news on iPlayer for more than 24 hours.

For Fallingstar, MissAdventure (!), and anyone else with a similar 'mind'(?!).

The BBC showed whatever that image was because they DO NOT HAVE the same issues that occupy your strangely obsessed and frankly - by the look of it - tiny minds.

THEY did not see such images with the same prudity issues that you did, they've moved on. Follow their lead?

As I already said once, any heatwave has for many years had TV bulletins showing seasides with masses of people in all sorts of dress, frequently UN-dress. Little girls or boys, teens, adults, all sorts. Any voyeur could have been getting their 'jollies' for decades.

NB -- The King was pictured at some do, in the sun, no hat. William too. Send a nasty letter to Buck Pal, rotten example?

Oh, and more for 'Fallingstar' - my first comment had some Caps for EMPHASIS, a standard English usage even if you're not that familiar.

Yes, you ARE entitled to your opinion, as are OTHERS who have correctly shredded it as being, let's call it 'misguided', as you're now claiming to have been offended.

Oh, and once more, have you blamed the PARENTS for sending them out wearing something of which you disapprove? Once again, if NOT, WHY NOT??

And for Chestnut, NO, YOU do NOT know that the BBC "filmed lots of footage" and "many thousands of people". These days they're on ever tighter budgets and schedules (you've not heard?), so don't have time to waste for themselves and the studio editors getting hours of film to study, especially for a tiny snippet that actually very few will see and notice?? Do you REALLY not get that simple point?

BUT -- if it REALLY bothers you (& FallenStar), then COMPLAIN to the BBC. They have a well-established and formal complaints process, you need to have an idea which show it was, which day and an approximate time (for a bulletin).

HERE is the link >>>> www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints >>>>> they will reply, so DO REMEMBER to come back and update everyone. Hope that helps?